Analysis Of The Warmth Of Other Suns

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In “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson, the three main characters that the story follows face a great deal of inequality and racial prejudice in both the Jim Crow south that they left and the north that they fled to. Through their stories, as well as the excerpts from Wilkerson that serve to dispel some of the common myths and to explain some of the inequalities that others faced, one is able to make many connections between the problems that Ida Mae, George Starling, and Richard Foster, among many others, faced in their time and the obstacles to equality that our society still to this day struggles to overcome. A large reason as to why these obstacles still exist is that many have preconceived ideas about African Americans and African American Communities. However, numerous obstacles still survive to this day as a result of certain racist ideas. One of the main reasons that some obstacles that Ida Mae, Starling, and Foster faced still exist is that many people are predisposed to certain ideas about African Americans, some of which, came about during …show more content…

As the narrator addresses in heavy detail in the book, the notion that African Americans reduce property values is completely false. Oftentimes, the neighborhoods are on the brink of decline before an African American family moved in, and it was instead the whites mass panic to sell their homes after they moved in that resulted in the steep decline of property values in the area. This was shown with Ida Mae’s story, as after years of saving up money to buy their own home, they moved into a white part of town, however, as soon as they moved all the white neighbors immediately fled, and with the surplus of of housing, the pricing dropped substantially. Despite this whole notion being false, it persists through today and causes white flight from certain

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