Examples Of Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

Throughout the history of the the United States of America, society has been depicted by race.Racism shown in the time period of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has multiple similarities and differences with the modern day.

There are many different examples shown within the book To Kill a Mockingbird. A way that the book shows blatant racism is the use of the word niger. “‘What’d the nigger look like’”(Lee). The word nigger is used as an insult, as if the colored man is less then a white man. This word was greatly disliked by the african american community in the past as is still looked down upon by some and used over excessively by others. Another example is, “‘Mr. Finch, if you was a nigger like me, you’d be scared, too.’”(Lee). This

This is brought to light in the article, “Segregation(Jim Crow)” written by Julie Novkov. An example of what Jim Crow was used to do is, “Segregation was the legal and social system of separating citizens on the basis of race.”(Novkov). Segregation was used as an excuse to separate certain people from others. This was also used to treat the non-whites as lower than trash. Another example is, “deemed black by Alabama's legal system, even if they did not appear to be "black."”(Novkov). People that were neither hot nor black were still treated with disrespect. They were pacticaly treated as if all of their nationalities were the same. There are many examples of racism throughout the

The article “Racism in Alabama…” shows this. It shows this with “Racism is a big issue around the world, towards every race. In the novel, racism towards black people in Maycomb was brought up. In real life, these issues really did exist of still do.”(“Racism in Alabama”). Racism still does exist today it is just not as public. Race is used to put down others, not just nationally but internationally as well. It also shows this with, “No one benefits from the racism and in the end, we are all same human beings –why are we harming each other?”(“Racism in Alabama”). Racism does not benefit anyone but the one that is doing the oppressing. Human beings are human beings. We all branch from the same race.Racism is still shown