The Freedom in American Policy: A concept Between the Rhetoric of Inclusion and The Reality of Exclusion Towards Afro-American Blacks (A Thematic Study in The Underground Railroads by Colson Whitehead)

Abstract

Throughout Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, the study traces how far is the slogan can match the implementation towards the concept of freedom in American policy. It explores that Whitehead's work can be considered as a project of liberation for such people who are suffering a lot from constraints of mis-leadable policy in terms of practice and slogan as well. This project grants the blacks the freedom from chronic crisis called slavery-complex which has been living in their unconsciousness. Cora, the heroine, replaces the Freedom Status of Bartholdi, to hold the torch instead. She is the black's voice, who is calling her own people first to liberate themselves, from their unconsciousness, then from the racist culture in American geography. The study concludes that the freedom is never granted freely, it is achieved forcefully.