Racism in American Literature Many readers assume that novels such as The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Light in August, and also Of Mice and Men have a strong racially discriminating nature. These are great novels in American Literature but they strike great controversy even years after their publication. In fact, they pose more of an argument in this era than in the racially discriminative era the authors lived in. Samuel Clemens, …showed first 75 words of 1197 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1197 total…in American literature is a power that slanders the black race. The racist aspect in literature is part of American history. The authors just demonstrated how prominent and ample it was. We can only hope that these great works of literature, although racist, help to enlighten our modern day society to the discrimination and biases against the black race that was so present among our predecessors, and with this enlightenment positive changes continue to prevail.