AMH 2020 Chapter Notes -White Supremacy, Tinn, Nigger
Document Summary
Tim tyson"s blood done sign my name (2004) examines the grim reality of racism during the 60"s and 70"s through an account of racial hatred in oxford, north carolina. Tyson explains to the reader that the killing of vietnam veteran henry marrow in 1970 was attributed to alleged inappropriate comments that marrow made to a white woman. According to tyson, the murder demonstrated the fear white men had about african-american men taking advantage of white women. Tyson named the defense of white womanhood as the reason many of these crimes were justified. Ultimately, tyson"s exploration of henry marrow"s death helps to reflect on the nationwide racial conflicts existent during the civil rights era. In the text, tyson described when he was ten years old his friend gerald teel bragged that his daddy and roger and em [had] shot em a nigger (8).