Hamer's quest was the empowerment of race rather than race and gender. ... "Women of all classes got involved and this illustrates how much women's roles have been overlooked by history." ... The women of the Civil Rights Movement played key roles in the success of it, but got little to know credit because of the masculinized view of women's roles and how they pertained to leadership. ... Combined, these roles represented a curious sort of status for Hamer the wife, farm worker, and political activist. ... Hamer's quest was the empowerment of race rather than race and ...

• Word Count: 810
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Black women dreamed of racial and gender equality. ... They had roles of queens and pharaohs. ... Many females use these images as their role models not knowing that they were created by many sexiest and racist views. For example, many young women choose female rap artists like Lil" Kim and Foxy Brown as there role models. ... The pictures of black women in magazines and television that are mostly seen today enforce numerous racial, gender and sexual stereotypes. ...

• Word Count: 618
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• Grade Level: High School

Nella Larsen brilliantly creates Helga's character to utter many blacks ambivalence regarding racial identity, class, and gender roles. ... Washington, W.E.B Dubois, and Marcus Garvey played role in African America such for equality/identity. ...

• Word Count: 271
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• Grade Level: High School

In The Color Purple, Alice Walker leads protagonist Celie on a journey of self-discovery where she has to overcome different obstacles because of her gender, race, and class. ... Black women, such as Celie, experienced double oppression not only for their gender, but also for the color of their skin. ... Celie had grown up in poverty her entire life and accepted the submissive gender role of the housewife that came along with it. Someone like Shug Avery who began making money through her singing, was able to evade the obedient housewife role and live her life the way she pleased since she did...

• Word Count: 931
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• Grade Level: High School

The fact that Reebok chose a black male to perform that role proves this statement. ... His being dressed in all dark colors, except for his shoes, puts focus on the product and symbolizes his mysterious dominant role in the ad. ... They have a black male performing this "rapist" role and this would more often than not offend black people. ... This, again, represents a race and gender in a poor manner. ... This shows that Reebok's target audience is people of all races and either gender. ...

• Word Count: 1366
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• Grade Level: High School

A raisin in the sun really did a good job in addressing race inequality and gender equality in the 1950s. ... Racism also plays a strong role in the story. most obvious would be how the family only associates with black people because interracial relationships were unheard of. ...

• Word Count: 263
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

There were other shows on television that captured the love that African Americans had for their family members such as The Jefferson's or Good Times, however both sitcoms portrayed African Americans in stereotypical roles. ... The traditional gender roles were challenged and so were racial stereotypes. ... Sondra Huxtable is a great example of a character breaking stereotypical roles. ... In a way this episode breaks gender roles, because it shows the men as the weak links that need help and can't do things for themselves. ...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

While sitting in his hotel he turned on the television, he saw Oprah and realized that she was perfect for one of the roles. ... Oprah has also been able to cross racial and gender lines despite her being an African American woman. ... These children consider her to be a role model. ...

• Word Count: 658
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• Grade Level: High School

The achievements of many people in our country have been devalued and ignored based on color, gender, and societal norms. ... When black people are thought of in media majority of the time it is never an important role. From commercials to movies, there importance is quite little, if it is just a small role or and appearance. Media plays a big role on how the public thinks, especially in the era we live in. ... A lot of it comes from the environment that people grow up in, how they are able to talk and get information plays an important role. ...

• Word Count: 1377
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These studies vary according to gender, but they all link to race and suicide in some way. ... White, Black, and Hispanic, these subsamples didn't differ in gender or marital status. ... The third study focuses more on income and occupation playing a role in the inequalities between Whites and Blacks and that in return creating suicide rate higher for Blacks and the inequities increase. ...

• Word Count: 1467
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• Grade Level: High School

Women were underestimated and viewed as weak just based on gender. ... She was finally released from the role forced upon her as the trophy wife and could now stop holding herself back. ... When she was forced into the role of a trophy wife, she felt like she had no point in living. ...

• Word Count: 1578
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I. The Differences between "Rosie- and the Woman in "That Damned Fence- During the time of World War Two, there were hard working women taking over the jobs in industry that were usually held by men. But these women working as welders and miners were not the only women in America. There is a tend...

• Word Count: 1504
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• Grade Level: High School

"Affirmative Action and its Role in Society" It is October of 2003. A young African American man is about to make a decision that will dictate and impact the rest of his life. Thus far this is probably the most important decision that he will make in his life. This decision is deciding which coll...

• Word Count: 1177
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• Grade Level: High School

She plays the role of the "tragic mulatto" a stock character that was typical of antebellum literature. ... Instead Zoe's death permits female white readers to identify with the victim by gender while estranging themselves because of her one-eighth blackness, since her death was inevitably caused by it. ...

• Word Count: 1218
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This interpellation typically "prevents the insurrection of the working class," essentially limiting the possible roles an individual can inhabit in a lifetime, best exemplified by Nel's domestic life (Bressler 168). ...

• Word Count: 2386
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial "melting pot" and it has become a force with which to be reckoned. Today, American music represents people who would have never dreamed of being heard or taken seriously even as little fifty or sixty years ago. ...

• Word Count: 4261
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School