Racism in Walter Mosley’s Novel, A Red Death

During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s and after, American writers, critics, and readers grew more attentive to the issue of racism, blatant or subtle, in literature. In a nation with a history of enslavement according to race and of war against its indigenous population, the United States has a long literary history regarding Racism. The present research paper would like to highlight the issues of racial discrimination in Walter Mosley’s novel in his Rawlins mystery series, A Red Death. The researcher would present in detail the summary of the novel in which we can observe the instances of racism towards African American people in America. The source of the data in this research is Walter Mosley’s novel in his Rawlins mystery series, A Red Death. There are a number of utterances and dialogs that show the racisms. The main data is written data, collected from the utterances and dialogs which contain racism.