SOURCE: Kaye, Frances W. “Race and Reading: The Burden of Huckleberry Finn.” Canadian Review of American Studies 29, no. 1 (1999): 13-48.
In the following essay, Kaye discusses the enduring relevance of Twain's Huckleberry Finn but emphasizes that the novel also glosses over racism in white society by making the reader complicit with the limited worldview presented in the novel.