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SOLVED. Book about American racism; read for American Lit. in high school. [s]
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Book about racism esp bet. black/white; All about how hard it is to be a black man, in America, decades in the past, fiction
Book about American racism ; takes place in past
Book about race issues esp white people against black people.
Read in high school, a book about racism where it's all about how limiting it is to be be black in America, a historical? or old book that takes place many decades ago. I'm not sure when but I'm thinking 1950s ? sometime during the twentieth century, def (1900-1999, for clarification lol)
At the end the main character, a black man., who has been being ttly fuked over by racism and we've seen many examples already, accidentally murders a white woman when covering her face with a pillow so people couldn't hear her talking/ screaming to/at him, because I think another person, prob a white man had entered and for some reason the black man was not "allowed" to be in that room, and would have bad consequences, like getting killed or going to jail, or something extreme enough for him to be so freaked out he accidentally killed her.
Also about socioeconomic issues. Being poorer, and always being treated badly as not a white person, is a main theme. I think constantly grueling to read, it's super messed up.
I think he ended up in prison and then gettin g executed, because we did a whole assignment as dif parties in a "court" proving both sides of whether he should or shouldn't get killed and/or go to jail.
Or maybe he was just on thin ice, in danger because specifically people had kept making things worse, and I think him being caught was the last straw and for some reason really bad. Instead of fessing up though, I think he and someone else his friend? try to move the body. That much I recall
Fiction/ adult/ race, socioeconomic