American workers are still being fired for organizing, right-to-work laws are now on the books in 25 states, and women and minorities remain concentrated in low-wage jobs.
In Watchman, Lee erases the distance between the reader and problem at the heart of the story, racism, and forces us to deal with it in ways that we did not in To Kill A Mockingbird
Officers’ tendency to see what they fear can make them dangerously fallible. A society that shares this conditioning is inclined to dismiss their mistakes.
