Rebeca Skloot Research Paper

In an interview with Rebeca Skloot, found on the link above, the issue of Henrietta's skin color gets addressed. She talks about the color of Henrietta's skin playing a role in her treatment. During the Jim Crow era, the 1950's, hospitals and many places were segregated. Segregation suggests that not only the place but the treatment changes based on where you are. When Henrietta first came to John Hopkins she was a poor, black, woman. She was placed into the black ward and was treated different than a white person. Skloot states that the doctors often took advantage of the patients who had little knowledge about what was going on. Most of the times the people who did not know what was going on were black people. She states that in hospitals,