LaQuanda King Dori Rideau

1
The American Taboo
If He Hollers Let Him Go
Chester Himes

• LaQuanda King
  Dori Rideau
• Bonnie Lenear
  Jason Taylor

2
Possible Themes

• Racial tensions in Los Angeles
• Wartime racism
• Labor relations
• Sexual politics

3
The Big Question
Which of these themes best explains Robert Jones
symbolic lynching at the end of the novel?
4
Whats So Bad?

• Possible white mans ideology

• KKK doctrine

• Power

• Black mans
• physical anatomy

5
Real Examples

• Scottsboro boys
• Emmett Till
• Kobe Bryant

6
Scottsboro Boys

• Background
• Significance
• Cry Wolf
• Ruling

7
Emmett Till

• Background
• Emmetts fatal mistake
• After-Trial Response
• Acquittal international reaction
• Modern Day Effects
• From Mississippi to Jester

8
Kobe Bryant

• Background
• his blackness has been ignored so you can
  evaluate him
• without prejudice.

9
Taboo

• Reality
• Thomas Jefferson

10
Thomas Jefferson

• Sally Hemings
• DNA test
• Descendants

11
Yet there is a symbolic punishment that will
continue to live on and that is the idea that
Black men are sexual, violent predators prone to
raping White women and the appearance of a Black
man's civility is just that, an appearance.
- Bakari Akil