'The Ongoing Issue of Racism'

'racialism is so habitual in this country, so widespread and deep-seated, that it is unperceiv adequate because it is so normal. - Shirley Chisholm\n\n instance Shirley Chisholms quotes and believes on the racism that plagued the times of her serve are subdued evident in our generation. Ellen encourage a 1987 smart by American briskist Kaye Gibbons is summit example of the hardships endured by both duster and blacks in the sylvan s offh in the mid 1970s. The novel portrays the life of Ellen Foster a schoolgirlish 11-year-old girl who presently has no space to call her own. after Ellens mother passes away in the reference of the novel she locomotes with her beget, stock- gloss over after permit repeated physical, mental, and sexual abuse Ellen seeks chancel at her dismal plugger Starlettas family unit. subsequently making some(prenominal) rounds with different households she is lay in the keep of her grandmother whom she calls (my mammary glands mama). He r grandmother is a fairly flush lady hitherto she does not attend Ellen in both way. Despite her spring chicken age she verbally mistreats Ellen she takes her frustration out on the teen girl and unendingly reminds her that she is a reflect image of her father whom her grandmother hates, and is the genius to blame for her mothers death. subsequent in the novel her grandmother also passes and Ellen is sent to interference at her aunty Nadines house, she is once over again mistreated and on Christmas day she is pressure to leave her aunts house following an argument. Ellen ultimately finds a decorous main office to live in when she meets a lady know as Mrs. Foster, this impertinently mama accepts Ellen and really cares for her well be. Ellen last finds comfort in this new home and is ecstatic when she is able to invite her friend Starletta to sleep over. every along Ellen is think on her fashion of hardship, yet at the end she realizes that Starletta has had a practically more than difficult and is still ongoing hardships much harder than herself the largest one being racism. After schooling and analyzin... '