Mildred Taylor Multiculturalism

Mildred Taylor is a distinguished African American novelist, who documents the hardships that encounter the black community in the rural south in her writing. Taylor is famous for her trilogy of the Logan family which exemplifies the black ordeal and struggle. The second of the trilogy in Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (1976), followed by The Song of The Trees and ends by Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981). Throughout this trilogy, Taylor engraves a place for black children literature in the mid of the dominance of the white mainstream culture. The work is subversive as it introduces to the foreground a 9-year-old black girl, Cassie, as the protagonist, breaking the traditional expectations of having a white male Christian protagonist.

This illustrates Taylor's influence with multiculturalism which dominated the scene in 1970s and 1980s. At that time "issues of race and gender had moved from the margins to the mainstream, though the battles to get them there had been painfully fought" (Paul, 2009). According to Multiculturalism by Howard M. Miller: Multiculturalism describes many differences in different exist in different societies. Difference issues such as education, racism and culture. Also, diversity culture in sometimes led to compensation among cultures on jobs and conflicts (Jstor, 2018). Although the novel is written in 1976, yet it depicts the conditions of the African American living in the rural south in

Also, white people gave many orders to black people do any order they take from white people. Black people were educated and worked anything white people wanted. Then, black people were forced to learn and know the history of slavery. They should know the true history not the history of slave because they able to take their right in that society, but white people do not allow by that because white people do not want black people have any right in that society. The ideas of race and strategies between black and white people prevented equality among people in education and in other aspects. That society differs from modern society in these ideas. Modern society does not have those ideas of race and strategies between black and white folks. Now black folks have chance to be educated, achieve their dreams and enter high schools like white people. White people do not seek revenge from them and now there is equality between white and