Book Precis on Racial Discrimination and African Americans

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1BOOK PRECIS
1. Russell, Kathy, Midge Wilson, and Ronald E. Hall. The color complex: The politics of
skin color among African Americans. Anchor, 1993.
In this book, the authors talked about the prevalence of racial discrimination. The main
argument of the book is that the shortage of women in the American society obligated the native
Indians in the American society to marry women from Africa. However, the children of such
couples were treated as Africans within the American society because of their skin color and
hence, were widely discriminated against.
The strength of the book is that it reveals the evil of racial discrimination in the society,
which also undermines the universal right to equality. The limitation of the book is that it does
not provide a solution to end such discrimination. This is significant in the contemporary times
as it is the obligation of every State to uphold the spirit if equality without discrimination.
2. Carlson, Shirley J. "Black ideals of womanhood in the late Victorian era." The Journal
of Negro History 77, no. 2 (1992): 61-73.
In this article, the author talks about the African women living in Illinois, United States,
during the twentieth century. This article focuses on these women who were, in every respect,
similar to the women of the Western society in their demeanor. However, because of their racial
background, these women were more intelligent than the women of the Western world, which,
during those times, was considered to be a masculine quality.
The strength of this article is that is objectively seeks to break the myth of the racial
superiority of the ‘white’ people and to portray that people are equal in all respects. This article
has an important limitation, as it does not focus on the problem faced by the women in the