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Throughout the novel, __Their Eyes Were Watching God__, there are many various expressions of racism, whether displayed from one person to another, or from a group of people to another group of people, or even from a group of people to a single individual. Janie as a kid didn't know she was black, but the kids still made fun of her anyway. "Dey all useter call me alphabet 'cause so many people had done named me different names." As it was obviously told, the kids in the class would call Janie lots of different names, and she was fine with it, becuse she is so sheltered she has no idea she's even colored. Janie subconsciously overcame this, kind of without knowing it because she didn't even know she was colored.

One example of this expression of racism is when Janie comes back from burying a dead person and all the men sitting out are noticing her striking features, in a sort of perverted way. "The men noticed her fir buttocks like she had grape fruits in her hip pockets; the great rope of black hair swinging to her waist and unraveling in the wind like a plume." This is an example of racism kinda twisted with gender discrimination. It's racism because the men have decency when looking at the white women. Also, it's gender discrimination because the men are just being perverted and checking out her grape fruit sized buttocks and pugnacious breasts. Janie doesn't really overcome this but doesn't really know it anyway. She probably has an idea that the men are checking her out, but doesn't act on it, in a sense she's probably flattered

Throughout the novel, there are many examples of racism, relating to individuals or races as a whole. "So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger tuh pick it up." This quote comes from Nanny explaining how racial the white man can be. This quote doesn't pertain to a single individual but as a general feeling. Janie as a child did not know she was colored, until the time she saw a picture of herself she thought she was white like all the other kids in the class. "Aw, aw! Ah'm colored! Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like de rest." This is the example of how races collide in the story, and in this particular scene, Janie is made fun of by all the other kids, because she found out she was colored.