Racism Anne Moody??™s book, Coming of age in Mississippi is a book written with no a trace of apology or sentiment; it??™s an unforgettable real life story of Anne Moody. It was written to illustrate what blacks went through in Mississippi in 1940s, 1950s and 1960s (Moody 10). In Moody??™s book she portrays the suffering, smells and sights of being brought up in a racially prejudiced society. She is a strong girl who has the courage and confidence to challenge racism whereas in Yoshiko Uchida??™s Desert Exile is a book talking of one family that lived in Berkeley before World War II. It??™s a personal story of a woman who was brought up in Berkeley and was studying at the University of California before World War II (Moody 16). This paper illustrates the challenges of racism that Africans Americans and Japanese Americans went through in 1950s and World War II respectively. In Anne??™s book, it begins by illustrating Anne??™s upbringing.