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article review essay:Growing Up Colored

盖茨叙述了他在西弗吉尼亚州皮埃蒙特成长时，由于种族歧视而遇到的挑战和经历的童年故事。美国黑人因为他们的肤色被白人歧视。这个故事讲述了种族主义给美国黑人造成的遭遇和挑战。

西弗吉尼亚皮埃蒙特最早是被意大利和爱尔兰血统的移民所占据的地区。皮埃蒙特也住着许多包括盖茨在内的黑种人。盖茨声称，在20世纪初黑人就迁移到了这个地区，到1950年该地区才开始出现大量的白人。白人在工厂和银行从事出纳员的工作。然而，也有一些拜访了黑人的白人。拜访者的名字都是根据他们在皮埃蒙特的使命命名。就比如Mr. Mailman邮差先生是给白人派信的人。他们的名称都是根据他们在皮埃蒙特的所执行的任务而赋予的。

盖茨说并不是所有白人都那么在意自己的肤色。这有些白人不受种族主义影响，履行自己的职责。种族主义是显而易见的，因为所有的黑人都渴望在被白人占领的办公室谋求一份工作。

College Article Review on Growing Up Colored

Article 1

标题作者——Title and Author

Growing up colored by Henry Louis Gates Jr

发布日期——Date of Issue

American heritage magazine 2012, volume 62, issue 2

页码——Page Numbers

The article is a web version link: https://www.americanheritage.com/content/growing-colored

引言——Introduction

Gates narrates his boyhood story and the challenges he experienced as a result of racism while growing up in Piedmont, West Virginia. African Americans were discriminated by the whites because of their skin color. The story presents the challenges experienced by African Americans as a result of racism.

简要概括——Brief summary

Piedmont, West Virginia was originally occupied by immigrants of Italian and Irish origin. There were also colored people including Gates who lived in Piedmont. Gates asserts that the colored people migrated into the region in the early 20th century. By 1950, white people already had a considerable presence in the region. The white people worked at the mills and in banks as tellers. However, there were also some white people who visited the colored people. The visitors were accorded names based on their mission in Piedmont. Names such as Mr. Mailman would be issued to the white people. The names were given according to the tasks they performed in Piedmont.

Gates asserts that not all white people were concerned about their skin color. There were white people who performed their duties without being affected by racism. Racism was evident because all colored people were expected to stand while seeking for services in offices occupied by white people. Racism was the order of the day in 1950s, but Gate’s family had their own pride and held negative views about the white people. In 1957, Gates’ mother had to relocate to the white people’s neighborhood. Racism did make them consider another neighborhood because Gate’s mother considered the whites to be dirty.

In 1950s and 1960s, racism was experienced even in television channels. African Americans were expected to watch their programs in colored channel 2, while the white people had everything in their life colored. The white people were too obsessed with racism that they did not want the black people to be associated with them. Gates asserts that there was nothing common between the white people and the black, except the location in which they were born. In addition, Gates’ parents used to warn black children against accompanying white people to other social settings because all they did was to mock the black Americans based on skin color. Racism was rampant in Piedmont thereby forcing the colored people to develop immune to the racist abuses dire