Racism in Short Stories

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English

 

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Pauline M

 

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August 25, 2013

 

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University

 

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?The Test' and ?After You My Dear Alphonse' both challenge the legitimacy of this differentiation and thus the discrimination associated with it. ?The Test' by Angelica Gibbs, was written in the 1940s and bluntly shows how African-American people were treated at this time, and would have caused much controversy among the ignorant middle class reading the story...
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?After You My Dear Alphonse' (?Alphonse'), by Shirley Jackson, was written in the same era as ?The Test'. This story shows how naturalised the stereotypes of African-Americans were then, and also how racial attitudes were influenced by parents and society. Both of these stories challenge the representation of the African-Americans in America at the time...
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