Moby Dick

For these posts, consider the representation of race, racism, race relations, and racial identity in various passages of the novel. How does Melville use Ishmael, a white man, to project or explore certain ideas about race or racism or relation among races? How does Ishmael discover his own ideas about race? How do these ideas converge with or offer a critique of certain received ideas about race? What do certain passages seem to suggest about the nature of racial identity, or about race relations?

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