1. In what way does music inform the novel
In an Interview with Al Jazeera America, the segregation expert John Logan from brown University claims that there is a " high degree of segregation" (El Nasser) in modern-day America, especially in the suburban areas. ... One of the defining factors for modern-day segregation is the financial situation of the different races. ...
"# Although racial thought according to Ruchames could be explained as modern racism between the races as it was, only decades ago. Even modern day author Audrey Smedley points out that, "it is not without significance that many contemporary scholars have concluded that race is a relatively recent concept in human history" (Smedley 1999, 16). Dante Puzzo (1964) also contributed to the argument by stating that "Racism is a modern conception, for prior to the XVIth [16th] century there was virtually nothing in the life and thought of the west that can be described as racist" (579) (Smedley 1...