'''Basic Trope''': A person from a group that has been marginalized wherever they live [[TimeTravel travels back in time]] and experiences prejudice.
* '''Straight''': Alice, a Black woman from a country where Black people were historically enslaved and women were denied economic opportunity, travels to a time where slavery is legal and experiences racism and sexism.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Every White person in the past becomes filled with UnstoppableRage at the mere sight of a Black person and every man is openly appalled that a woman dares walk about alone.
** Alice isn't just Black, she's also [[TwoferTokenMinority left-handed, a lesbian or trixic nonbinary, intersex, amputee, has autism and schizophrenia]]. [[ButtMonkey Naturally]], she finds herself treated like absolute dirt in an era dominated by right-handed, heterosexual, cisgender, bodily-abled, neurotypical White men.
** A FiveTokenBand travel to an era where prejudice is rampant, and ''all'' of them experience extreme forms of racism/sexism/ableism/homophobia/transphobia/etc. EXCEPT for the WhiteMaleLead or TokenWhite man who is promptly treated like {{a god|AmI}} by the local populace.
* '''Downplayed''':
** People in the past are prejudiced and do feel uncomfortable around Alice, but don't go out and say it because [[SacredHospitality they want to be polite.]]
** Alice is a lesbian who travels to TheEighties, where she has [[HideYourLesbians conceal her sexuality from the]] MoralGuardians, yet she still suffers a good deal more homophobia than she might in the 21st century.
** Alice is a Jewish woman without PhenotypeStereotype who travels to the UsefulNotes/NaziGermany era, and although she can [[HidingYourHeritage hide her own heritage]] from UsefulNotes/TheGestapo, she is still uncomfortable with prejudicial atmosphere around her.
* '''Justified''':
** DeliberateValuesDissonance
** Anyone who wasn't a straight, male, [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant White Anglophone Protestant]] during most of the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates' history will very likely experience all sorts of prejudice and unfair treatment.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice, a Black woman from TheRoaringTwenties, travels forward in the future, and is quite shocked when she discovers a future (FAR into the future, [[SelfDeprecation still not our times]]) virtually devoid of prejudice of any kind.
** A person travels forward in time and experiences prejudices that don't exist yet (such as eye color, hair color, arm length, or pet preference).
** Bob, a White man, travels into the future and finds that now ''he'' is the member of the marginalized group. Or he travels to some point in the past, in a country and period when White people wouldn't be welcome -- Sakoku-era UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}, for example.
** Bob, a breathtakingly virulent racist, manages to travel to the far future that has become [[InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace a multiracial utopia]] and reinfects it with his hatred. He then tells the horrified protagonists that [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil his creed is immortal]].
* '''Subverted''': Alice walks down the street and gets a dirty look from a White person … [[DiscriminateAndSwitch who is only shocked at her futuristic clothes]], or [[CantTakeAnythingWithYou her nakedness]], as the case may be.
* '''Double Subverted''': The White person who meets Alice says, "Ah, you're from the future? Is that what [insert plural racial slur here] wear in the future?"
* '''Parodied''':
** Bob, a man from the future, travels back to the present. He is accepted in his own time but is a punching bag in our time.
** Alice goes so far back in time, and is so [[FishOutOfTemporalWater bad at fitting in]] when she gets there, that she [[StableTimeLoop accidentally]] ''[[BeenThereShapedHistory invents]]'' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero racism and sexism.]]
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
** Alice is AmbiguouslyBrown. Depending on the time period, location, and how she's dressed, she faces greater or lesser amounts of prejudice. Sometimes it's her extremely White colleague Bob who can't fit in.
** The conceptions of culture, race, ethnicity, and what is considered significant change with time and location. Essentially ''everyone'' rolls the dice, as being privileged today is no guarantee that they won't face heavy prejudice in the past over subdivisions that were long forgotten.
* '''Averted''': Alice travels back in time, but nobody is racist or sexist towards her.
* '''Enforced''': "We can't send a Black woman into the 1800s without having her experience racism and sexism. It wouldn't be realistic!"
* '''Lampshaded''': Alice is chased by an angry mob of racists. "Oh, yeah. I'm in TheFifties."
* '''Invoked''': Alice, a Black [[TimePolice time-traveling cop]], is pursuing Bob, a White time-traveling criminal. Bob accuses Alice of being an escaped slave, leading to her capture and his escape.
* '''Exploited''': Alice, a Black time-traveling cop, is pursuing Bob, a White time-traveling criminal. Bob escapes while a mob of racists attacks Alice.
* '''Defied''':
** Alice refuses to go back in time to periods when racism or sexism are still dominant.
** Only {{Voluntary Shapeshifter}}s may use time travel, since they can physically morph to avoid persecution in any time or place they might wind up in.
* '''Discussed''': Alice wants to go back in time, but her White colleagues Adam, Betty, and Bob discourage it because she is Black and might experience racism.
* '''Conversed''': Cathy and Chris are watching a ShowWithinAShow. Cathy says, "Why would they send Alice back in time? She's Black and racism might hinder her work."
* '''Implied''': Alice mentions getting dirty looks when she traveled back to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which Bob can't understand at first.
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Alice can't stay long where she was supposed to be sent, for fear of death or grievous bodily harm.
** Due to the limitations on the potential customer base arising from the society's history of bigotry, few people can indulge in TimeTravelForFunAndProfit, deepening extant inequities.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** She goes to a place, time, or both where she would meet more enlightened people.
** ''Every'' time-traveling agent has a list of places and times where they cannot go due to their race, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, et cetera. Alice can safely go places where her White colleague Bob would be lynched just as he can go places where she would face that peril.
** Few people can travel back in time, but everybody can travel forward in time to a more enlightened era, learn what is expected to happen in the future, and change the present to come into line with the future.
* '''Played for Laughs''':
** Alice incurs AmusingInjuries after her pursuers catch her and give her a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** Alice gets fed up with the racism of the past and [[CatharsisFactor beats the crap out of every]] [[AssholeVictim bigoted mob member who gets in her way]].
** People from the past insult Alice in ways she finds [[{{Narm}} laughable]].
* '''Played for Drama''':
** A few especially violent bigots from the past maim or kill Alice.
** Alice went back in time [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong to correct an injustice done to one or many people in the past]], but because she'll be treated as a second-class citizen at best in that era, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished she]] ''[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished will]]'' [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished suffer for it]].
* '''Played for Horror''':
** Alice isn't attacked physically, but a few especially sadistic bigots from the past show her [[ColdBloodedTorture what they've]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay done to]] other Black time travelers, which [[NightmareFuel scares the bejabbers out of her for days on end]].
** Alice gets a CruelAndUnusualDeath.
** After suffering something horrible from the past bigots, Alice becomes a time-travelling SerialKiller targeting bigots throughout history.
** The bigots steal Alice's time travel device and decide to [[TimeTravelingJerkass satisfy their bloodlust by lynching people from the groups they hate throughout history]].
* '''Untwisted''': Alice is treated well in the past, leading to the appearance of PoliticallyCorrectHistory. She then discovers her [[PerceptionFilter Chameleon Suit]] doesn't just give her the appearance of period-appropriate clothing but makes her appear the "correct race".
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"Return to NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel … And watch out for those filthy time-traveling [[CensoredForComedy n(BLEEP)]]! Goddammit! They let anyone jump in time nowadays…"
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