... to "invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with resources, power, and opportunity." (Lipsitz vii) " Lipsitz's book gives a substantial amount of evidence which shows that America's investment in whiteness with historical facts, stories, and statistics. Although at times Lipsitz's arguments ... of Bill Moore did affect [him] to an unusual degree, even more than the many reports of the deaths of dozens of blacks in the civil rights struggle."(Lipsitz xiv) " Lipsitz's book summarizes that public policy, for a long time, have excluded communities of color from ...

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... that discrimination must be proved through demonstration of intent, and not just results. This disparity is reflected in the number of Black death row inmates. The NAACP Legal Defense fund reports that nearly 39 percent of the inmates on death row in the 35 states in which the death penalty is used. It also found that of all federal death row ... is significant reason to believe this idea. William Julius Wilson states, "black women, especially young black women, are facing a shrinking pool of "marriageable" (i.e. economically stable) men."17 Much of Wilson's book is dedicated to the dis...

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... media coverage of Africa only exposed problem areas while success stories went unnoticed (Illies). A Black child getting a scholarship, a black community getting a new transportation system or a black basketball team in Africa, reports like these often die out before they hit the western media. These negative issues have reached such an extent that little African American children view themselves as being "bad." A TV ... that I had seen once was very influential; a research was conducted with four children ages between 6 and 8 (2 blacks and 2 whites) with two picture storybooks. Each ch...

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... reflected in the "white flight" that usually happens when a substantial number of African Americans move into a predominantly white neighborhood. "Whites just do not want blacks as neighbors," reports Andrew Hacker in his review of the book American Apartheid. "Nor is this a reflection of class. Whites are just as apt to pull out when middle-class blacks begin to enter a neighborhood." As a result ... racism in the United States, however, may be provided in the daily experience of successful middle-class African Americans, as reported by Newsweek editor Ellis Cose in his much-publicized...

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Alex Kotlowitz's book, The Other Side of the River, is a journalist's investigation of the death of Eric McGinnis, a Michigan black youth of 16 years. His body was found in the river that separates ... could ultimately lead. Or, other whites may read the novel and complain that their race is the common scapegoat for an unresolved death of a black person. Kotlowitz, however, as a journalist, reports the case in an unbiased manner, without faulting a specific race for Eric McGinnis" death, but he leaves the reader to ponder the problem and causes of racial discrimination. After reading ... cl...

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