Walt Whitman on Racism in America Analytical Essay by Top Papers

The paper explores how Walt Whitman's works espouse or express his views on racism. In particular, the paper notes that Whitman cannot be easily categorized as either a "racist" or as a progressive thinker who thought beyond race; instead, he internalized the Eurocentric and "white-centric" paradigms of his time whilst simultaneously also admiring the physical beauty of African-Americans and by giving them a stature and an agency that was not granted them in most of the literature of the age.