This is most likely how the self-imposed stereotype of "acting white" has come along. It can be clearly seen that it would be quite difficult to "act white" because people of Caucasian descent act in all kinds of different ways, with optimistic and pessimistic attitudes, in different characters and stereotypes of their own. ... In order to "act white" it must first be found out what it means to "act black" and evaluate the two to see if "acting white" does actually exist. ... The same thing can be said about "acting white" and how all white people as a whole, truly behave. ... Because of th...

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The only history that was discussed was that of white Americans. ... It was based on what was viewed as an acceptable white household. ... MTV's show "The Real World" consists of young people, selected from all over the country, living together for half a year. ... This show is very popular because today people are interested in seeing how people's different cultures compare to others. ... People of all races, not just African Americans, listen to it. ...

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Richard's writings in "Black Boy" are a collection of his alienation from white society and from his own people. ... "If you sell them you just helpng the white people kill you"(p131) Having black people sell papers that promote killing and hatred against them shows that white people do not care about black people just as long as they can get rid of them by any means.Richard was later on hired by a white family who offered to feed him breakfast and dinner." i cat eat this...the food is not even clean!" ... Richard was a victim of white peoples racist arrogance, just as he was also a vict...

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Should White People Be Killed? ... White people have far too much of a stake in maintaining their supremacy. ... So I am forced to conclude that white people should, and have to be killed to accomplish liberation. ... From a psychological perspective, white people must certainly be exterminated. ... While I acknowledge that white people can engage in this kind of anti-racist surgery, I also recognize that the masses of white people will not. ...

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In the educational system you are molded to believe that white is right and everyone and everything not white is wrong. ... Differences between people, in regards to skin color, head shape, and body shape have been used to aid oppression by "white" folks. ... During the 19th century white Europeans had come to the point that money equaled power and in turn gave them the right to enslave people that were unlike them. ... In the European "helping" way these people were taken from their families so that white hands did not get blackened by the dirt. The differences that the Europeans saw in these...

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Because African Americans knew they were subject of their own circumstance and that white society constructed and maintained that unjust circumstance, the black population feared the white race. ... White society attempted to suppress Bigger Thomas and anyone like him. ... The white folks got everything- (355). ... It seems more fantastic that all of the people around him are not. ... His crime of violence is as much the crime of the people around him, who stifled his soul and nourished the other, baser side of him that was the only way he had of self-expression. ...

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In addition, white beauty becomes equivalent with goodness and wholesomeness and even Pecola's father Cholly imagines God as "a nice old white man, with long white hair, flowing with beard, and little blues eyes"(pg 134). By toleranting the ideal of white beauty, blacks denounce themselves as its exact opposite. Given that the legend of white beauty is restricted from the outset and denies the worth of black beauty, blacks accordingly lock themselves into a self-destructive cycle in which their only triumph lies in their ability to encourage whiteness. ... And even more than that, if sh...

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They are just like the White people in the United States but with a caramel complexion. White people all come from different countries: England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Italy, Denmark and many more to name. All these countries and one category White. ... There are several incidents that made Martinez wondering where he is better accepted, being a Latino and having all the White kids look down on him because he was different or being White because that's the people that he surrounded himself with as he grew up. ... This part of his life, was when he wanted to be White, like everyon...

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White versus black. ... White versus black appears most predominately throughout it, taking into consideration is the hatred from each side towards one another. ... Raeven Kelly, A Time To Kill (1996).Also when Tanya plays at a barbeque with Jake Brigantz's white daughter, rendering her completely oblivious to the racial issues surrounding her. ... At the beginning of the trial, as the judge walks, there is a slightly overbearing shot showing the whole audience to the case which has all the black people seated on one side of the room and the white people on the other to give the movie aud...

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Even though they have lived in America for almost their lives like the rest of the white people, the men in this story have not equated with the other races, especially the white society. ... He tends to pull himself toward dating white women only. His masculinity is redefined by those white women. ... He has a lover who is a white woman named Amanda Miller. ... It's the white woman who pulls other race into this who picture. ...

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The whole concept of whiteness is racism, whiteness is constantly shifting boundary separating those who are entitled to certain privileges form those whose exploitation and vulnerability to violence is justified. The term whiteness focuses mainly towards the white male, leaning towards virtues and male values. ... For example, white people often fear people of color, and most people of color fear white people. White people are not usually in danger of individual acts of discrimination, hate crimes and police brutality at the hands of white people, as well as of institutional practices th...

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I feel it is unfair to assume all white males, people, feel the same way. ... Most people that I know are aware that Affirmative Action is for the white women as well as the people of color. ... While the statistics show the numbers as far as job related and white people to the rest of the population, it is not fair, nor is it fair to bash all white people for this situation. ... To go as far as to say that this is a personal attack by the white people to make people of color their servants again. ... I would hope not to be clumped into this misconception as all white people want to accomp...

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Walter is also constantly talking about how the white people are always trying to keep the black man down. ... The prejudice of the white people in the story is widely seen in one incident. ... The Prejudice white people were the modern Gestapo of America. The Black American blue-collar workers also believe that they are being held down by the white-collar workers who are the white business men. ... If the white people would try to understand the black population and if the Black Americans would understand each other and the white people, we would have a utopia. ...

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From Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry I have learnt that life for black people was harsh because white people made it so. ... In Mississippi black people are still nearly treated like slves, meanwhile in the northern states of America black people were treated better, more like white people. ... Barnett, that treated badly black people at the store, he made them wait till all the white people have finish. Nearly all the white people on the story, except Jeremy Simms and Mr. ... Some white children like Jeremy Simms like black children and these means that no ev...

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Timmons is one example of a bad white. ... The white commander towards the end of the movie is another example of a good white. ... A person who grew up with the cultures of white people would maintain those beliefs through adulthood. ... He had known how white people hunted, but acted shocked by seeing the wasted buffalo. ... All of that happened a long time ago, and the white people that are alive today are not responsible for their ancestor's actions. ...

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He scarcely notices if a person is black or white, and views all people equally. As Richard grows older, he becomes more and more aware of how whites treat blacks, the social differences between the races, and how he is expected to act when in the presence of white people. ... The principal calls him to his office and tells him to recite a speech that the principal wrote himself, saying that Richard needs to recite his speech because he is going to be speaking in front of white people and it is important to make a good impression. ... While out of work, Richard discusses the subject of how bla...

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African Americans automatically thought that "good hair" was white people's hair, and they always tried to make their hair look straight, because then they would have "good hair" and look more white. In the book Sweet Summer by Bebe Moore Campebell, the attempt by African Americans to fit into the "white world" is important because people were putting down their own race for being educated or so called, "acting white." ... Many people felt that they needed to Have power. ... They thought that "good hair" was white people's hair, and always tried to make their hair look straight,...

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Much of white culture is built on stamping out culture that isn't white or white enough. ... Noda is frustrated because her face announces itself to the prejudice people. Noda uses an example to illustrate the poor judgment of people in American society and how they form their opinion based on the other person's face and looks. ... She feels that people are ignorant and they judge people by their looks. ... Noda writes about the society of stereotypes that treat Asian American with prejudice and how people make judgments about you just by your looks. ...

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They feel that the white people expect minorities to act white. By this I mean the minorities feel that they have to talk like a white man, smell like a white man, laugh like a white man, feel like a white man in order to fit in with the white race. ... We can see this because when we think of a typical American we usually think of a white person. ... When people are brought up in a society that has these invisible acts of racism, it makes it hard for people to see that they are being discriminatory against people when they consider their actions normal. ... As ...

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Although the story focuses on the lives of a group of teenagers in a rock band, the novel still shows the hardships and setbacks of all the people living on the reservation. Because of the colonization and teachings of white Americans, the Native Americans create a belief that the white man's way of living is better than their own traditions. ... He may have the impression of being best basketball player in the state, but he simply did not have prospects of playing at the next level because attending a college or university was an opportunity presented primarily to white people. ... Liv...

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He considered white Americans to be an unjust, blood- thirsty people that are unmerciful -true barbarians. David Walker believed that white Americans treat their African slaves worse than any other people have ever been treated. ... He exemplified the backwardness of the white man's concept of barbarism by pointing out that the white American is the true barbarian. ... Abolitionism was working in places, and David Walker made an attempt to tip the scales of an often-teetering nation for the sake of himself and his people. In his work Appeal, Walker proved to the reader the intellectual ca...

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In this prejudiced filled world where people are killed for walking down the street while black, I have come to learn the best possible thing to be in this world is white" (Thomas). ... She also is saying that in this world today white people have more of benefit in everything in jobs, in the criminal convictions, trials, and education. ... The media spreads the idea that the people of color use and abuse drugs more than white people. In a study done by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration indicates that white people and black people use drugs at a similar rate, y...

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Some African-American people will never forget the way they and their ancestors were treated by the "white" people. ... Some white people still think that black people are no good for anything but being slaves. Even though there are still some KKK organizations some white people are just racist against them because of what they were taught by their parents. ... She also told me that there are white parents who discriminate against black people in public places, including the groceries and the streets. ... One of these people who said that it was a racist crime is part of an African Ameri...

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The white people were superior. ... Claudia doesn't see beauty in the white doll or in white people but she does in her culture. ... Pauline enjoys cleaning the white peoples home. ... Slavery was a horrible thing and it left a deep imprint in many black and white people. ... They try and deal with it though they and their black community have hate for themselves and they envy the white people who are considered to be superior....

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America even to this day still has racist people. The majority of the people don't consider themselves racist. ... Looking at adult drug users, the PLNDP study found that more than half of those who admitted using heroin last year are white and 60 percent of monthly cocaine users are white. ... Knowing that, why are the minorities (African Americans) being pulled over more that white people due to racial profiling. ... less than 30% of people in broadcasting are black. ...

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