During our viewings the issue regarding conflict in color, light skin and dark skin, did not strike me in any of the two movies. ... There is a distinct difference in behavior between light skin versus darker skinned complexion. In "Within our Gates," the alcoholic character was portrayed a darker skinned man. ... After Gridlestone was shot and killed by a white farmer Efram was the one to run around town to accuse Jasper in order to gain favor of the white men who would be looking to avenge his death. ... Darker-skinned people are portrayed as unintelligent and corrupt like the butler, Efram....

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Lighter-skinned blacks in this story act superior to darker-skinned blacks. ... She teaches at the local school to a group of "common blacks," as they are called because they"re skin is darker. ... The flint can be used to symbolize the light within Ned after his mother's death. Witnessing her death as well as many other injustices in his time, Ned uses the "light" within him to seek out moral justice and fight oppression. ... His death is a prime example of how the society in which he lives in not only oppresses blacks, but others as well. ...

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The narrator, who suspects that Bledsoe is keeping the veil in place to ensure that the students remain in the dark, is unfortunately greatly influenced by him. ... The narrator's grandfather tells him the best way to succeed in the world of white men is to, "overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open" (prologue), in other words, it is best to play the part rather than rebel. ...

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The brother of Billy-Ray Cobb, Fred Cobb, seeks out the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to help avenge his brother's death by making sure Carl Lee Hailey receives the death penalty. Upon the first meeting between the KKK and Fred Cobb, a picture is painted of a dark, rundown abandoned building. ...

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The early flashback of her mother's death establishes Sara's confused and unsettling mind presented through a myriad of scenes and images of the events that led to her ballet audition and consequent death of the her mother. ... She blames her mother's death on herself and gives up ballet only possessing a magazine", to which the camera zooms up on, in memory of this part of her life. ... This idea is reinforced by a contrast of the dark and cold city night sky of Chicago and Sara's warm and brightly lit hometown. Sara's shock and uncertainty created by the death of he...

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Many writers began exploring the darker side of this movement with literature that concentrated on the negative parts of race issues in America. ... Clare tells Irene that she "nearly died of terror the whole nine months before Margery [her daughter] was born for fear that she might be dark" (168). ... This, not her eventual death, becomes Clare's ultimate tragedy. ...

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They would storm the jail and abduct the prisoner, in many cases without a challenge from the guard, take him out and hang, shoot, dismember and beat the prisoner to death. ... In order to bring light on this dark part of American history, James Allen and John Littlefield wrote "Without Sanctuary". ...

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Introduction Jackie Robinson made history when he was the 1st ever black baseball player in 1947 when playing for the Dodgers, but why would Branch Rickey the friend of the Dodger choose Jackie. Well his batting average was an excellent .349 and fielding percent of a .985. Even though he was a terr...

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The crowd didn't even leave the elderly, the found one black elderly person, and burned him to death. They also found a 84 year old shoemaker who was married to a white woman, he was dragged to the yard, hung to the tree and hacked to death with knives. ... President Woodrow Wilson made conference against lynching 1930 The NAACP made protested against the supreme and demanded a law on discrimination of colored people (African American (dark skinned Americans)). ...

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It is so much easier dating someone who is African-American because whether you're a light-skin or dark-skin African-American, you still get the same treatment from everyone else who are against interracial relationships. ... Dealing with her boyfriend's family wasn't easy after his death and they wanted nothing to do with her or the baby. ... Its crazy because some of them were dark-skinned, they didn't want us there just because I'm African American.... The women says, "I'm pretty dark-complected. ...

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An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room. ... Because religion emphasizes how pleasant life will be after death, Bigger believes that religion allows black society to escape the horrible reality of the oppressed life they are living. ... All of the characters that Bigger says are blind are living in darkness because the light is too painful. ...

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The Lamanites were cursed by the Lord with the skin of darkness and became known as "a dark, and loathsome, and filthy people full of idleness and all manner of Abomination"1. Eventually the nations of the Amlicites and the Zoramites were cast with dark skin and joined the Lamanites. ... According to Smith, the Lamanites could cast away their dark skin and savage ways if they sought to repent and accept the true faith that ways taught by the righteous Nephites. ...

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The woman was infuriated and told Nanny the next morning she was going to be whipped to death. ... "So when we looked at the picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. ...

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Slaves began to work at a very young age and usually were separated from their parents most of them continued to work until their deaths. ... Even though all these bad things were happening to them they keep their African heritage their darker skin their uniquely rhyme and languages and their culture. ...

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...

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Orlando Patterson noted that this tradition was forced upon slaves to mark the morning of their own death: 'the shorn head of a slave was a permanent condition of liminality and that he the slave must forever mourn his own death'.20 Toomer uses the aesthetic of hair to show the ways in which his characters mourn their own social death within society, that they essentially have no social position because they are Negro. ...

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It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. "Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. ... There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 cal...

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In March 1953 Hughes was forced to appear before "The House of Un-American Activities" where he refused to name other radicals and denied he had ever been a member of the "American Communist Party" Langston enjoyed a successful career until his death on May 22, 1967. ... It is very dark and a boy, later known as Roger, tries to snatch a woman's purse. ...

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Words have the power to influence the world. When one chooses their words accordingly, they have the power to effect society and make prominent changes. Being blessed with the ability to speak to the very souls of the general population isn't an easy feat to accomplish. One significant author nam...

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She associates dark with words like "defilement," "foolishness," and "desecrators" (216). ... At the end of Janie's trial for Tea Cake's death, it is the black community that continues to reject her. ...

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Seamus Heaney's poem, Mid-Term Break, is a great example of how society's expectations can impact identity because the poem is about a young man who is away at school to obtain an education and establish his identity when he is called back home to deal with the death of his younger brother. ... The young man is very matter-of-fact about his brother's death, almost sarcastic one could say, because he despises being called away from his life and opportunities at school. ... Even with his strong spirit, the reader can see the beginning of racial inequality in the next line, "I am t...

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I. Introduction As a native New Yorker, I can remember growing up in Harlem on 112th street and St. Nicholas Ave. On this block everyone was treated like a family. My siblings and I would go out and play in the street, because we didn't have the luxury of a backyard. ...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better d...

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