Interaracial Prejudice
Intraracial Prejudice
Intraracial prejudice is prejudging within your own race. Intraracial prejudice has been practiced for centuries even before the civil war. In "The Wife of His Youth" written by Charles Chesnutt, intraracial prejudice played a major part in the short story. A young man named Mr. Ryder was a lighter, fair skinned man was associated with a group called the "Blue Vein" group. The Blue Vein group did not have specific requirements for admission to their group, but on the contrary most of their members were of lighter, fair skinned tone.
Mr. Ryder in this short story was not the average African-American during that time. He was an educated man who was able to repeat whole pages of the great English poets. Mr. Ryder was an economical man who owned his own home on a respectable street. Why was Mr. Ryder such a successful man to society? It was because he wasn't your typical African-American who in his former years was just a slave. As quoted in the short......
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