Beauty The book portrays the African American population as a culture fascinated by its internalization of a "blue-eyed, yellow haired, pink-skinned" beauty ideal. ... As a result the ideal of beauty becomes a unsafe and racist ensnare into which African Americans are born, and from which they can never completely escape. ... By toleranting the ideal of white beauty, blacks denounce themselves as its exact opposite. ... Some instances that deal with beauty in the book are as follows: Claudia is constantly faced with ideals of beauty. ... Then maybe, her classmates and teachers would not de...

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• Grade Level: High School

Individual racism is based on labelling and teacher racism where pupils of different ethnicities other than white British are seen as being far from the ˜ideal pupil'. ... Therefore this will lead teachers into thinking that there is no point in dealing with these pupils and will give up on them as they are seen as ˜hopeless cases'. ... A way to deal with this is to have members of staff of ethnic minorities which will hopefully improve the attention given to racism and reduce the frequency of individual racist discrimination, as teachers will be of ethnic minorities to...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nazism and art. Can these two themes be combined to create a high quality movie? Possibly. That is what director Istvan Szabo did. He directed the movie Mephisto in 1981, a movie about the life of a German actor during Nazi's rule pre-World War II. The movie was based on Klaus Mann's novel with the...

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• Grade Level: High School

A story illustrating covert racism might sound like this; when a Teacher says to an African American student that she is shocked how articulate the African American student is. ... The agency did a casting call for African American men are "nice looking, but not too dark" implying to African Americans actors that being black is bad and being dark skinned is not the ideal look for an African American male. ...

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