Applied Operations Mgt. Afflictions - Psych. An 8 page paper analyzing whether a racist caste system can rest on force alone, given the fact that the people oppressed by it should in theory be numerous enough to resist and overthrow it. It argues that part of the dynamics of oppression is both economic and psychological, and this is what is the most difficult to fight. The paper makes extensive use of Richard Wright's Black Boy and Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi.
Bibliography lists one source.
The paper asserts that racism destroys the spirit, and it is takes tremendous determination and drive to break out of that cycle. No additional sources. The paper demonstrates how the immigrant characters are represented by the 'alien' quality of another outsider, the protagonist Patrick Lewis. Bibliography lists 6 sources. An 8 page paper contrasting these two literary movements through an examination of Moliere s Tartuffe and Rousseau s Confessions.