True Grit Seven

"The chinaman is runnin them cheap shells in on me again."

While reading the book, True Grit by Charles Portis, one may be completely oblivious to the distinct- yet subtle- racism strewn about the text. It is curious that the book was published in 1968, yet did not bring up any major racial or sexist arguments. It is more viewed as a book about morals; of rights and wrongs in the criminal world. The characters take the minorities and women for granted in the novel. This manner evokes the subtleties of race and sex and how the white male is the utmost dominant figure in the human species.