Deadly Unna is seen through the eyes of the narrator, the main character Blacky, who is a 14 year old boy growing up in a white community who discriminates against Aborigines. ... "Fear fills his mind, prejudice in his heart, thinks - those black bastards - bastards of the dark." ... The repetition of "those black bastards - bastards of the dark" reinforces his hatred of Aborigines. ... However in "Redfern at Night", the stereotypes of the black community are accepted and not challenged. ... "Deadly Unna" concludes on an optimistic note that there could be change if the white community de...

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The final stanza reinforces the idea that change can be positive and that noting should ever stay the same. ... The responder can see there that the father is blind to the boys needs, he can only see that the boy continues to love him and believes that that is all that matters. ... They arrive from America believing that they are a superior race and above all blacks. ... The girls realise that they are going to have to accept their black counterparts, as there is no other children to play with. ...

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For example, if an officer in a fairly rich neighborhood pulled over a black male wearing a nice business suit in a very expensive car and doesn't think anything of it. But then pulled over a younger black male wearing a FUBU sweat shirt in the same expensive car but did a back round check on him. ... Massey and Denton note, "no group in the history of the United States has ever experienced the sustained high levels of residential segregation imposed on blacks." ...

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Are we simply suggesting the difference between male and female is as black and white as initially assumed, or is there more to this notion than meets the eye? This is where I debate that it is not as clear cut as black and white as it seems but rather that there is more to the idea of being "male or female" than one realizes. ... Technoscience is the act, process, and culture of discovering as well as the objects, methods, and things we produce (Class notes, October 21, 2003). ... Some how it is socially accepted for a girl to like sports and simply be considered a "tomboy", but for a boy ...

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Here the sweep's unfeeling sanctimonious parents have clothed him in the clothes of death and taught him to sing the notes of woe. ... In the Songs of Experience version, the narrator introduces the boy chimney sweep as no more than a 'little black thing'. ... In first two verses of both the Innocence and the experience Chimney Sweeper poems, Blake employs basic colour imagery to contrast the 'little black thing' with the white of the snow, which represents the purity of the childhood that the sweep has had taken away from him. The sweep's clothes are 'cl...

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In contrast, as Ed Cohen notes in Talk on the Wilde Side, "agricultural labourers and the industrial working classes [ ] were largely determined by the material constraints circumscribing their lives- (19), which is to say that the work in which they engaged was mainly physical, intellectually disengaged, and under-waged, so that there was little possibility of accruing excess capital. ... Hence, as Cohen notes, the spectre of failure haunts the middle class even as it anticipates a better life (19-21). ...

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In the foster home there were other kids, amongst them were a few babies and one seven year old little black boy named Harmon. ... As this happened Janie got to name her self and she named herself after her case worker's daughter, whom had also died, Leshaya, she did not only want this name because of who's name it was also because it was a black girl's name and she always wanted to be black she taught her self to talk slang so she sounded more black and also told everyone that her daddy was black even though her skin was so pale with blonde hair and blue eyes. ...

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