What are the motifs in After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson?

Racism is a recurring. While there are very few overt examples of racism in the book - such as Jayjones being harassed in the park by white police officers for running - the book provides a more nuanced view of racism's effects. The book seems to theorize that, decades after the historic advances in civil rights in the 1960s, racism is still pervasive, but it exists in a subtler, "latent" form.