Her themes are of utmost importance: racial insensitivity, the human costs of bureaucratic and discriminatory laws and the humanity of the Chinese. ... In Lae Choo, Eaton gives the reading public a naive, trusting woman whose entire life is devoted to the small child that the law of "this land of the free" manages to keep away from her for nearly one year. ... Compare and Contrast with Critics At the turn of the twentieth century, American culture witnessed related literary and political shifts through which marginalized voices gained increased strength despite the severe racism that informe...

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The reintegration of slaves, African Americans, had failed and certain laws were set up in order to maintain the divisions between black and white. Two elements from the time of Reconstruction and Post- Reconstruction were the so called Jim Crow Laws meant to segregate Whites from Blacks and the Order of the Ku Klux Klan, which maintained white supremacy through terror. ...

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