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A 5 page paper which analyzes racism in Ernest J. Gaines’ book A Gathering of Old Men. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that has many different ideals and realities running throughout. It is a novel that speaks of many issues such as masculinity, family, history, and racism. While the novel can be
examined from many perspectives the following paper analyzes the novel from the perspective of racism. The racism is evident on both sides, on the white and on the black side.
And, even people who are not necessarily racist are shown to have elements of racism within them in the novel as the plot unfolds. Racism in A Gathering
of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines One of the most powerful elements concerning racism, and the foundation of racism, within this novel involves the fact that the story revolves
around plantations. And the plantations are not presented in history but more recently, the 1970s when the Civil Rights Movement had essentially paved the way for more equality and blacks
and whites worked more harmoniously with one another, or so one would think. This plantation setting ultimately offers the reader the opportunity to see how much of the past, how
much of the history of racism and enslavement, were still a part of the men involved. This is further emphasized when one understands that most of the men are quite
old and thus were, as children, clearly affected by many residual realities concerning racism as it was connected with the era of Reconstruction. It is perhaps important to understand something
of the Reconstruction period when reading this novel. For example, after the Civil War, when the black people were free from slavery, Reconstruction set about making people and society more
equal. However, the South took its own path, allowed by the federal government. One author notes, for example, "African Americans were required to enter into annual labor contracts, with penalties
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