The concept "race- refers to a category of people who are believed to share distinct physical characteristics that are deemed socially significant. Racial groups are sometimes distinguished on the basis of such physical characteristics as skin color, hair texture, facial features, body shape and size. ... Physical traits such as these, as well as hair color and other both visible and invisible characteristics, come in infinite number of combinations. ...

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Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ... She does not feel the need to aspire to this unattainable physical image. ... The physical image of a white headed buzzard symbolizes Jody's metaphoric white head. ... Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable - Caucasian characteristics for all" (216). ... Turner str...

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"We study the biological characteristics of different human populations, our relations with our relatives-the apes and monkeys, and the evolutionary history of our species" (MacEachern 34). ... " The characteristics of people from different parts of the world that we have come to know, we have mostly gained through the media, such as what we see on television, magazines, and newspapers. ... It is discrimination against a group of people because an inherited characteristic they have, like skin color, makes them inferior to their oppressors. ... Without race, there wouldn't b...

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Masculinity is pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men. ... The way they looked concerning body features and physical presence determined whether or not they were "worth" anything. ... Howard came up with 5 public perceptions about the present day black men. (1) The physical brute and anti-intellectual, (2) the shiftless and lazy black male, (3) the hypersexual black male, (4) the criminal-minded black male, and (5) the pimp/gangster black male. ...

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The research project was funded by the Centers for Disease and Control, and was produced as a guide for society to help better understand Black women's lives in the contexts of social, political, economic, and physical issues. ... Longitudinal Case Studies -demographic characteristics -pregnancy -social strata III. ...

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In addition to these personal characteristics, Emile also reveals the intimacy and the intense struggle of his community. ... However negative Anne-Marie may appear to be, she also reveals some positive characteristics about herself. ... Regardless of the physical conditions that she is forced to endure, Anne-Marie goes to Aunt Fe, bearing gifts. ...

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The Federal government also says that, "Discrimination on the basis of an immutable characteristic associated with race, such as skin color, hair texture, or certain facial features violates Title VII, even though not all members of the race share the same characteristic- (Alexander, 2001). ... Harassing acts can include: racial slurs racial "jokes" offensive remarks based on race offensive comments based on race drawings or pictures that depict people of a certain race in an unfavorable light threats intimidation hostile demeanor, or ...

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To fit the mold of a womanist, the character must possess many different characteristics, including humor, calmness, and intelligence. ... Although this character does not possess the same physical abilities (she walks with a cane and wobbles from side to side like a penguin) as some of the other womanist, Phoenix Jackson is a womanist through and through. ...

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"This essay has been primarily concerned with the pervasiveness of segregation in the postbellum South as it came to replace exclusion as the dominant characteristic of race relations (Rabinowitz 155)." ... From physical violence to verbal abuse, Litwack gave many examples of these harsh realities. ...

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The main focus is not only to understand the differences and similarities of the two, but also the qualities and characteristics of these writers consist of. ... "My life as a Negro in America had led me to feel that the problem of human unity was more important that bread, more important than physical living itself; for I felt that without a common bond uniting men...there could be no living worthy of being called human"" (Wright 260). ...

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The description of the "cast iron bank" that IM finally notices in the corner is rich in providing evidence of the physical characteristics of the bank: "black, red-lipped Negro, whose white eyes stared at me, with an enormous grin.... He develops an extreme hatred for it and becomes offended by the similar characteristics of the bank to him. ...

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In order to understand the main idea of developmental contextualism, one must have a firm understanding of the situation in which a relationship between an individual and their physical and social environment takes place. ... The main idea behind the Microsystem is that it is a pattern of activities, roles and interpersonal relations experienced by the developing person in a given settings with particular physical and material characteristics (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). ...

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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. ...

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