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Racism Related to the Novel Jazz
In the novel Jazz, written by Toni Morrison, racism was a strong issue that was presented in the novel. The novel relayed the issue of racism to its beginnings and to how it is today. Although, at that time black males regaurded jazz as the essence of the Harlem Renaissance, the age of the ....
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.... with new hopes of opportunities in the North. Violet was embraced by this image, but recalled a different view of “jazz”. Like many black women of her time, it did not provide the promised opportunities but rather a source of the problem. “It wasn’t the war that disgruntled the veterans; it wasn’t the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. It was the music. The dirty get on down music…” (Morrison, 58). It challenged the southerner’s religious faith, which meant it could ....
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