International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Through the history, conflicts are always the cause of pain, sorrow and death. Nowadays more are developing for different rationale; colour, religion, race, gender; leaving millions of people to suffer all around the world. Racism has been a hot topic in literature; writers are examining the treatment of various kinds of discrimination as a weapon against hatred and anger.


29 April 2012


Mudbound
Published in Chapel Hill N.C., Algonquin Books, 2008
Two families, one white (Henry, a farm owner and Laura, a city girl) and one black (Hap, a farmer and a preacher and Florence, a midwife and housekeeper for Laura) in Mississippi Delta rural area in the year 1946/47, two returning veterans of WWII (Jamie, Henry’s brother and Ronsel Hap’s son) knew the world was changing, but back home it did not.These are the narrators of realities of the racism of the time and place from different perspectives. Laura found a companion with Florence, Jamie understand Ronsel  but not the community they are living in.
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