Racism. No other word in the English language has such a history behind it. The most common meaning of the word is to hate another person or group simply because of race or religion. However to others, the word means hate and violence bringing forth a long history of violent events scarring our nation’s history. Within the novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctrow, racism plays a major theme, it shows how around the turn …showed first 75 words of 1370 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1370 total…shown, racism can produce a powerful emotion of revenge on those who experience racism. Racism is not limited to skin color or religion it could be for anything, such as being from a certain country of origin as shown in the novel, racism was also directed toward immigrants. In any form racism directed at anyone for any reason causes hate and violence, although it plays a major theme in the novel, racism still exists today.