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 NervousThe 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