Prompt:
Read at least one article/essay of academic literary criticism about your text or lens (as provided by your teacher). Ideally, the article should be a reading of your text through your chosen lens, but if such a thing is not available, other types of essays will suffice.

Heather Duerre Humann explained that in Beloved the type of racism that occurred throughout the book and how Morrison deliberately showed when exactly characters were being racist. Humann Explains that Morrison uses scientific racism, an example of this is when the school teacher made Paul D and all the other slaves feel like they were "trespassers among the human race". This degrades them and makes it seem as if they are not human and just an animal. Morrison uses scientific racism a great deal and is very powerful and showed the hatred towards the African American race. The white people made themselves superior to all the slaves and did so by treating them like animals by buying and selling them.

If I did not read that essay I would be very much unaware that there actually was different types of racism, but after it was clear to me that what Humann was saying was very obvious. They made them feel like animals, as if they weren't worthy to be considered humans. And this was very clear in the book, when Sethe was rapped and was milked like a cow. Being assaulted like that and being handled like an animal shows that they have no respect for another human being, because she is black she is treated like trash and thrown to the side once they were done violating her. Along with that there was a part in the book when Paul D was in a cage chained up like an animal, being in really bad conditions. This is also a very obvious that in this book, the African Americans are treated like animals and given the least amount of respect given to them.

Humann's point of view on this book helped me see the disrespect is much more than seeing them as objects but how they treat them is obvious that they are seen as animals. Which was very noticeable when they would be abused like as if they weren't living humans.