B.A. FIRST YEAR THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY UNIT-3 RACE ( Racial Discrimination ) CHAPTER- 13 BLACK OUT BY ROGER MAIS NOTES

ROGER MAIS

Roger Mais was born into a middle class family in 1905 in Jamaica.
he become a writer for the weekly newspaper public
opinion which was associated with the people’s
nationalist movement in Jamaica. he wrote an anti British column
'now we know' and suffered imprisonment on charges of section it
wasn't reason that is work of social protest was convinced.
The Section On Race In Your Text Book Begins With
Blackout Short Story By Roger Mais A Caribbean
Brown Writer. The Story Which Is Set In The Period Of
World War II. Even That Sitting Burning Issues Of Race
Gender And Class Manifest Themselves Powerfully.

Black Out (Summary)

The Story Set On A West Indian Island City During The Second
World War. And Describe An Encounter Between A Black West
Indian Man And An American Girl It Was The Era Of Segregation
With Separate Schools Buses Restaurants For Blacks And Whites.
After The Second World War, The Atmosphere Of Tension
Was The Only Discrimination Between Blacks And Whites
That Has Arisen In The Society At This Time.
The Street Light Being Off And An American Girl Waiting For
Their Bus . She Is Confident And Feels That If There Is Trouble
One Good Scream Can Being A Number Of People To Her Rescue.
Suddenly A Black Shadow Follow Her When It Grows
He Was A Black Young Man. He Asking For A Match
Box Or Lighter As He Observed Her Smoking. As She
Doesn't Have A Matchbox She Lets Him Use Her
Cigarette To Light His.
Girl's Face Filled With Anxiety Because He Had A High
Discrimination Of Blacks In Society At The Time.
The Girl Does Not Put That Cigarette On Her Lips Again And
Throws The Whole Cigarette, After that The Black Man
Tells Her That It Is Not America Where Black Whites Are
Different So You Do Not Need To Be Afraid Or Nervous
The Girl's Bus Arrives And They Sit In It And Leave, But
The Girl Is Impressed By The Black Man Seeing All This.
This Story Tells Us That At That Time There Was A Lot Of
Discrimination Against Black People In America And
There Was A Lot Of Discrimination In Society On The
Basis Of Caste, Gender Class, Which Affected People's Lives Very Much