Smith, D.L.''Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse'' (pp. 356-369)

"By becoming, in effect, an author, Jim writes himself a new destiny." (Smith 364)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MeaganGemperlein/2009/10/lifes_what_you_make_it.html

"Despite their patriotic rhetoric, they, like Pap, were unprepared to take seriously the implications of "freedom, justice, and equality" (Smith 369)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JamieGrace/2009/10/seriously.html

In the essay on racism, I find a passage that has nothing to do with it...
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/HeatherMourick/2009/11/friends_or_foes.html

Huckleberry Finn should still be used as a means for social reformation

"The book takes special note of ways in which racism impinges upon the lives of Afro-Americans, even when they are legally 'free.' It is therefore ironic that Huckleberry Finn has often been attacked and even censored as a racist work."
~pages 357-358

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JenniferPrex/2009/11/appearances_can_be_deceiving.html

"By becoming, in effect, an author, Jim writes himself a new destiny." (Smith 364)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2009/11/el_266_smith_the_many_hats_of.html

"Race" is a strategy for relegating a segment of the population to a permanent inferior status. It functions by insisting that each "race" has specific, definitive, inherent behavioral tendencies and capacities which distinguish it from other races. Though scientifically specious, race has been powerfully effective as an ideology and as a form of social definition that serves the interests of Euro-American hegemony." (p. 358)

"Regardless of whether we credit Jim forethought in this matter, it is undeniable that he turns Tom's attempt to humiliate him into a major personal triumph." (pg: 364)

Racial Stereotyping For Twain

"Racial discourse maintains that the 'Negro' exterior is all that a Negro really has" (Smith 365)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=33969&blog_id=554&saved_added=1

Oops! I posted the wrong link. Here you are:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KatieLantz/2009/11/not_what_it_seems.html

"To become civilized is not just to become like Aunt Sally. More immediately, it is to become like Tom Sawyer" (368).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaLesko/2009/11/twain_and_the_people_he_confuz.html

This is a complicated book. Read with Caution.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GladysMares/2009/11/its_complicated.html

It is troubling, therefore, that so many readers have completely misunderstood Twain's subtle attack on racism" (Smith 359)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeredJohnston/2009/12/huck_jim_and_american_racial_d.html