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This 4 page paper discusses Anthony Walton's book "Mississippi: An American Journey" about his attempts to understand Mississippi and the way it shaped his family's history, and its place in the nation's history. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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born, and which was the heart of the segregated south. This paper briefly examines his book about his experiences in trying to come to terms with his heritage. Discussion Walton
describes himself "as a man of privilege who grew up in middle-class comfort in suburban Chicago, feeling perfectly free to date white girls, and who found that his most pressing
choice was often whether to have espresso or cappuccino after dinner" (Bernstein, 1996). He attended Notre Dame and Brown, and although he says he has paid what he calls the
"black tax," the "petty, daily indignities that take such a toll on the psyches of American blacks" he doesnt claim that "racial discrimination has fatally blocked his lifes path" (Bernstein,
1996). In fact, he seems to have enjoyed what most whites would consider a fairly "normal" childhood and adolescence. However, Walton recognized that his parents had had a much more
difficult time than he did, since they grew up poor in Mississippi and moved north in the 1950s (Bernstein, 1996). When he was a child, Walton went to Mississippi on
"family visits"; as an adult, Walton continued making these visits with the purpose of trying to understand "where he came from and how that place fashioned both his identity and
the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi" (Bernstein, 1996). Mississippi is the poorest state and it carried out the
most lynchings in American history: "581 since 1882, all but 42 of the victims black" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that "something endures" in Mississippi; there is "something savage unleashed there
that has yet to come to rest" (Bernstein, 1996). Despite the fact that Mississippi now has the greatest number of blacks elected to office of any state, Walton argues that
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