Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks to Slavery 1. ... The term race, meaning any distinct group of people#, becomes a word of prejudice in the seventeenth century, during colonization. ... At that time, the word took on a connotation that put entire groups of people into one of two categories based on the color of their skin. ... So it seems simple to trace the origin of race but not so simple to trace the origin of its prejudiced or its discriminatory view. Looking back into history, it is determined that many languages used the word race to "categorize human beings". ...

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"Enduring Understandings" Before reading the memoir "Night," by Elie Wiesel, I had never heard of the word Genocide. ... Although the camps held captive people of many different origins, the majority of the prisoners were Japanese-Americans. ...

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This regard did not stem from a hostile origin; they just did not understand what they didn't know. ... Oblivious would not be a suitable word to describe them; they choose not to understand, they choose not to accept. ...

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The word proverb comes from the Latin proverbium (pro meaning "in front of, on behalf of" and verbium meaning "word"), suggesting that a proverb takes the place of ordinary words. ... When a word is lost, we use a proverb to find it." ... As do proverbs, African American folktales have origins rooted in West African literary and cultural forms of expression. ...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. They were captured from the tribes situated on Africa's West Coast: Nigeria, Iv...

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