Racial Injustice in Olaudah Equiano's The Life of Olaudah Equiano
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Olaudah Equiqno’sThe Life of Olaudah Equianoreveals that racial injustice,
domination, discrimination,oppression, and violence inflicted upon the blacks by the
whites in racist societies of African Continents, America, and Europe in 18 century.
This autobiography exposes the whites’ supremacist racial ideology, that is enacted
in social and cultural practices through different organizations, agencies, institutions
like church, court, law, institutions, media, police and army, market and othersthat
serve to the ruling racial group.Despite their resistance and protest the blacks being
gripped with the racial ideology fail to avoid racial imposition and injustice of the
whites, but Equiano in individual level succeeds in his resistance because he
understands the subject position and material conditions.