Color Blindness in The White Boy Shuffle, by Paul Beatty

In general, "color vision abnormality" is considered to be the best way to cause racial problems. This concept is clarified and discussed in Paul Beatty's novel "The White Boy Shuffle". This novel draws the story of a young African-American gunner's life, focusing on his experience and identity in various places. In Santa Monica's childhood childhood part of childhood he was constantly taught to the concept of "color blindness", a concept widely proposed by the community to reduce racial discrimination.

White Boy Shuffle is the first novel by Paul Beatty, a poet who continues to win The Sellout Man Booker Award. This adult's story tells a black black surfer, Gunnar, whose mother moved from Santa Monica to downtown West Los Angeles - Mrs. Kaufman after his son refuses to participate in All Black Summer Camp. It is not the same as him. After becoming a friend with rich basketball player Nicolas, Gunnar began to experience an amazing change from a neighborhood abandoned child to a basketball superstar, and eventually a "split, oppressed" passive It became Messiah. . This is a condition to explore the conditions of integrated friendship and black male sex.

Both of the books are geniuses. Most of them occur in other communities in Los Angeles, but the harsh features of beach town - Beatty's big talker (white boys shuffle) or frequent surfing (on sale) - are clearly observed They are the truth must be. Of course, the important theme of Los Angeles is the division between urban wealthy communities and poor communities. Sellout 's narrator examined this paradox over and over and used a nearby bus from Dickens' home (the "American murder capital") to the west to a 10 - mile beach town. How he deals with black surfers in every town along the bay is a curse of face to face and interesting