Crooks and the other men in Steinbeck's novel live in a time period where Blacks were no longer slaves, but were not welcomed in the upper echelons of society. They were forced to do menial tasks like housework and hard labor, and were not allowed, as a general rule, to have positions of political power. It wasn't until 1947 that Jackie Robinson, an exceptionally talented hitter for the Brooklyn Dodgers, was allowed to play on a team that was not a segregated black team.
So here we have Crooks, a man who grew up in California in the 1920s and didn't know, until his father taught him, that Blacks and Whites did not mix well together in their culture. Now that he is older, he is figuring out the facts about racism in the United States.
Why do you think that Steinbeck describes Crooks this way? What is the author's view of Blacks in California in 1930s
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