Open AccessDisallowing and Differentiation of the Same Race: Black Characters Dream of Indigenous Ethnicity in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Author(s) -
Ahmed Seif Eddine Nefnouf
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of linguistics, literature and translation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-0099
pISSN - 2617-0299
DOI - 10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.3.9
Subject(s) - indigenous , race (biology) , ethnic group , dream , paradise , white (mutation) , resistance (ecology) , code (set theory) , punishment (psychology) , genealogy , history , sociology , gender studies , aesthetics , art , psychology , social psychology , anthropology , art history , computer science , ecology , biochemistry , chemistry , set (abstract data type) , neuroscience , gene , programming language , biology
This paper will address the issue of disallowing and differentiation of the same race (shadism) in a bid to create a pure race throughout their experience and the remembrance of their previous generation's history. The remaining founding families established a new town in Ruby, which had a strict racial code that had to be followed by everyone in the town. Failure to do this resulted in punishment. Also, it uses the characters in the novel Paradise to show how their dream of an indigenous ethnicity fails due to the same issues they had experienced at the hands of the whites in their history of resistance. Discrimination between light-skinned blacks and dark-skinned blacks is evident. The disallowing event proves that even the black community despised each other on the basis of skin color.