THE COLOR LINE UNVEILED: INVESTIGATING RACIAL INEQUITIES IN BRIDGE OF SIGHS BY RICHARD RUSSO

Abstract

The present research attempts to show how in the white dominant society in America the blacks are treated as represented by Russo. This issue has to be dealt with under the Critical Race Theory (CRT) which is applied to the text of the novel Bridge Of Sighs written by Richard Russo, an American novelist. The content of the text indicates how blacks have been historically and culturally suppressed. This research is important in the sense that it does not only highlight and present the construction of various forms of oppression based on racial identity like deprivation and degradation but also represents them by covertly voicing the stance of the Black community. Therefore, this study provides a new angle to the research at hand, in the discipline of art of interpretation. The analysis has been conducted paragraph-wise and the critical discussion is done under the Critical Race Theory. It allows the researcher to analyze the societal role in shaping various identities of blacks in relation to the white-dominant society.