Mark Twain: Racist Or Not?
Submitted by wienerrx on April 27, 2011
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Mark Twain: Racist Or Not?
There are many degrees of racism. During his time, Mark Twain was forward thinking and championed the downtrodden and oppressed. The only example of racism is his treatment of the Goshoot Indians in Roughing It. The main body of his work points to innovative anti-racist themes. Even if one admits that Twain hatches some derogatory stereotypes, labeling his work unteachable to our own time is extremely shortsighted (Kesterson 12). If Twain was racist, the process of learning is supposed to combat backwards teaching from our past through exposition and discussion.
Mark Twain is one of the most controversial authors (Kesterson 3). In recent years, there has been increasing...
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