Champion Of The World
The separation of race is nothing new in American culture. Even though slavery was abolished in the late 1800's signs of class separation and racism are still apparent in this story. In the paragraphs sixteen and seventeen of "Champion of the World" a story lifted from Maya Angelou's popular novel, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", there are many references to racist offences committed by whites to blacks. She uses a champion boxing match as a metaphor for an opportunity for blacks to rise above the oppression visited upon her race though the efforts of Joe Louis, "The Brown Bomber". He does not just represent himself but the whole black community as a whole. When it appears that Louis is about to lose to the challenger, Primo Carnera, Angelou fears that whatever progress has been made in overcoming the white man's prejudice concerning black's "inferiority" will be lost. She feels that if he falls once more she will be less of a person shown when she says "only a little......
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