... charade that was best left a charade so that the civilization could operate without a catastrophic rending of the existing social fabric. Violence and oppression on the part of slave masters in the form of forced separation, imprisonment, beatings, rape and murder kept slaves in a continual state of submission ... of the "innocent."" But even the potential detective hero (Wilson) shows how easily one succumbs to a belief in racial predisposition when he notes early in the book how Roxy's superstitious drop of black blood causes her to avoid the fingerprinting process. [Whether we as read...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate