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A Beneficial Segregation. Forrest Carter?s fictional autobiography, The
Education of Little Tree, indirectly promotes the institution ...
... This effect is allowing segregation. This is not beneficial to the student at
all, if anything it is going to harm their social development. ...
... Though this segregation is temporary, it creates homogenous native-language groups,
while beneficial education requires integration of all students. ...
... pure and simple unless that segregation does involve discrimination."(DuBois, 557.)
He believed that some forms of segregation were beneficial to the Black ...
... in Gibbons and Katzenbach 4) Segregation and violence are contributing to the making ...
Alternative punishments to jail time are much more beneficial than prison. ...
Submitted by LetTheChoirSing on October 12, 2006
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Forrest Carter’s fictional autobiography, The Education of Little Tree, indirectly promotes the institution of segregation, by proposing that such a separation would be beneficial to the state of Native Americans. The author targets white Americans, who are most susceptible to believing and accepting his work as being factual, because he recognizes that this audience is the most oblivious to the true nature of Native Americans. Carter’s depiction of this Cherokee family confirms the biases of his audience. Furthermore, he makes it seem that these Native Americans are not only incapable of assimilating into the dominant, white culture, but are unwilling to do so. Though Carter portrays the Indians as ignorant “noble savages”, he also attributes an aggressive, if not violent nature that threatens whites who come into contact with the Cherokee family. One comes to the conclusion at the end of the novel that it is better for there to exist two separate societies for the safety of the Cherokee heritage and for the physical safety of a misunderstanding white society.
In order for Carter to be able to convince a certain group, he had to target an audience which either already shared his beliefs or was ignorant of Cherokee culture. This can be inferred from several characteristics of the novel. The dialect characterizes the typical Southern accent. The text is lush with idioms could be easily recognized by a Southerner. A Southerner would share the same biases as the author when it comes to Native Americans.
Carter's depiction of Granpa shows the author's belief that Indians are very ignorant. “To Granpa, whether sheriff, state or federal revenue agent, or politician of any stripe, he called them 'the law,' meaning powerful monsters who had no regard for how folks had to live and get by” (Carter, 16). Granpa doesn't differentiate between the different levels of government and harbors an indiscriminate disdain for all facets of the institution. The reason...
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