Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn
by
Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Especially in academia, controversy rages over the merits or evils of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in particular its portrayal of Jim, the runaway slave. Opponents disrupt classes and carry picket signs, objecting with strong emotion that Jim is no fit model for African-American youth...