• Shreeyash Avinash Kokate

This paper is an attempt to research the major theme of Racism and also to research the problem of Exploitation happening with the black race in America. It also aims to research the exploitative and racial relation of Americans with that of the Haitian region as well as the role of American Educational institutions in aggravating the problem of Racism and Discrimination in Zadie Smith astonishing satirical work ‘On Beauty’. This novels deals with the issues of the underprivileged in the America and how they are indirectly denied the education, a right to get educated which should be the available to every citizen despite his or hers socio- economic and racial position. On Beauty was a novel published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and is the winner of Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2006. Here also like her earlier masterpiece White teeth, Smith follows the style of named by British Critic James Wood as Hysterical Realism to tackle the problem of the racism and underprivileged. Beauty derives its title from the essay of well known American professor named Elaine Scarry titles On Beauty and Being Just. Even though title of the novel may be On Beauty, but it primarily deals with the ever present air of discrimination and racism in the America, the country which has long been associated with the clashes of two races, where the conflicting events of racism come to surface from time to time in new and in popular culture and art forms like paintings and majorly in the form of rap, a song genre primarily associate with the black race. Smith presents us with the tale that deals with the Belsey family who is constituted of Howard Belsey of Britain and his black wife of America and there mixed race children namely Jerome, Zora and Levi. It also deals with conservative Monty Kipps of Kipps family who oppose the education of the unprivileged blacks in Wellington University and other black characters who bear the pain of discrimination. Thus novel is also said to be taking inspiration from the idea outlined by the great Liberal English Fiction writer Edward Morgan Fosters magnum opus Howards End which tackles the idea of social conventions. On beauty is also the terse satirical literary work on the conservative policies of the elite Universities which go against the idea of ‘Education to all’. It not just deals with the differences in the races but also the reaction of one race to the culture of another and the mental trauma dealt by underprivileged black youngsters in the land where education and respect to them is the distant dream.

Zadie Smith’s ‘On Beauty’: A Novel on Racism, Discrimination and Exploitation

" Zadie Smith’s ‘On Beauty’: A Novel on Racism, Discrimination and Exploitation ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.2303-2314, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905U25.pdf

" Zadie Smith’s ‘On Beauty’: A Novel on Racism, Discrimination and Exploitation ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp2303-2314, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905U25.pdf