Eduardo Oyola Professor Owens ENG-1102-XTIL 10/T5 18 July 2010

1. Mark Twain: How His Views on Race and Racism are Reflected in His Writings Eduardo Oyola Professor Owens ENG-1102-XTIL 10/T5 18 July 2010

2. The skin of every human being contains a slave.- Notebook, Mark Twain 1904

4. Born in Florida, Missouri. 1835

5. Halley’s Comet closest approach

6. 1 of 6 children

7. 1863 Began signing his pseudonym "Mark Twain"

8. Slave owning Family

9. River Boat Captain

10. Famous Author

11. World Traveler

12. Married

14. (1876) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

15. (1884) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

16. (1894) Pudd'n'head Wilson

17. (1897) Following the Equator

18. (1870) The Noble Red Man

19. (1895) Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

21. Biographical sketch

22. Mixed racial views

23. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

24. Novel, Racial prejudice/segregation

25. Views of life as a runaway Negro slave

26. Criticized for Twains use of racial slurs

28. Ironic Novel

29. Key characters are Slaves

30. Roxana (Roxy), and her son Valet de Chambre

31. Twain expresses his views on Racism

32. Prejudice

34. Twains Negative views against Native Americans plainly evident

35. “Injun Joe” Joe is portrayed as a murderer, rapist thief

36. the most evil character in the book

37. The Noble Red Man

39. Twain in great detail, mocks Coopers “Indian experts”

40. Continues Negative views of the Native American

41. Following the Equator

42. Turning point for Twains views

44. Twain was Anti-slavery, Racism, and Prejudice

46. Works Cited: Anderson, Frederick. Editor. A Pen Warmed Up In Hell: Mark Twain in Protest. New York: Harper and Row, 1972. Print. Bloom,Harold. Editor. Mark Twain: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Novelist). Penn: Chelsea House Publications, 1999. Print Blues, Thomas. Mark Twain & the Community. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1970. Print. Bond, Jenny, and Sheedy, Chris. Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara? The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books. New York: Penguin Group, 2008. Print. Camfield, Ph.D., Gregg. Mark Twain's Mississippi: Race. 2005. 15 July 2010. University of California, Merced.<http://dig.lib.niu.edu/twain/race.html> Rissetto, Adriana. Twain's Indians: The Noble Red Man. 4 Dec. 1996. 15 July 2010. < http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/rissetto/noble.html> Smith, Russell. The Legend of Mark Twain. 1994. 15 July 2010. < http://www.bochynski.com/twainweb/filelist/legend.html>