Racial Bias And Discrimination: A Study Of Omar Tyree’s Leslie And Ishmael Scott Reed’s The Last Days Of Louisiana Red

Abstract

Racial politics and discrimination is one of the major threatening issues African-Americans are facing both in the past and present scenario. They are one among the lower class people in the United States. Their forefathers were brought to America during the era of slavery. After eradication of slavery system, the economically weaker community preferred staying in America. After certain names of disrepute the term “Afro-Americans” is fixed to address them.  Racism leads to discrimination, a treatment under which a particular group of people are ill-treated or treated badly by upper class people. Racial politics prevents them in getting all the better opportunities (sometimes even a basic opportunity). This can cause a lifetime loss to the minority community.

This paper aims at accentuating the negative results the major issue (Racism) causes. In terms of analyzing the issue of racial discrimination the novels of leading African-American novelists have been taken for this study. They are Ishmael Scott Reed’s The Last Days of Louisiana Red (2009) and Omar Tyree’s Leslie (2006). The paper focuses on analyzing this major issue in the views of critics and major theorists.