Huck Finn as A Racist Piece

The Educational Merit of Huck Finn In the recent past, the educational merit of Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has been called into question. Claims of rampant racism and sheer crudeness have bombarded the novel since its release in 1885. The book is currently banned in many American schools on the grounds that it is a racist novel and incites feelings of animosity and isolation in many students. The question of whether …

…and as long as they keep an open mind throughout its reading, they will come away with a greater understanding of slavery and the south. Bibliography http://www.boondocksnet.com/twainwww/huckleberry_finn.html Fishkin, Shelley. Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Hoffman, Daniel. Black Magic--and White--in Huckleberry Finn. Chicago: Carlisle Publishing, 1984. Ellison, Ralph. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism. New York: Norton, 1977. 421-22.