The contrast between dialogue in the play focuses on how humour is used as an evocation of pity and sadness and how the Aboriginal language along with their lifestyle has been corrupted by their dependency on European settlers. The contrast between living conditions and legal rights between white and black Australians is also relevant to the construction and dramatic success of the play, as it sets up an appalling social hierarchy purely determined by race, culture and skin colour. ... As language is seen as being a symbol of identity and culture this intertwining of the two languages shows th...

• Word Count: 806
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Groups may be almost identical physiologically, yet be divided against each other on the basis of culture, language, religion, nationality. ... Latinos have some relationship to the dominant white culture; some are doctors and leader, like Cruz Bustamonte. African Americans also have a relationship to the dominant white culture as well like Rev Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King they are great minority speakers. ... Some Americans behave as if racial differences produce inherent superiority in European Americans (whites). ... Multicultural competence is the fluency in more than one cult...

• Word Count: 896
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Linda stated that she identifies with both races, her white ethnicity inherited by her American European mother, and her black race and culture, from her father's African American descent, and considers herself of no race other than that of the "human race." Because she spends a lot of time thinking about different ethnicities, cultures, and the fact that she is highly offended when she is considered as anything other than biracial, it is safe to say that she is still very confused. ... She does this by evaluating her environment, analyzing the different cultures and placing herself in ...

• Word Count: 930
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Africans were immediately labeled with terms including savage and heathen. ... Although they are gross caricatures, these representations and images left lasting impressions which effects can be seen even in contemporary culture today. Furthermore, these particular representations have deep seated roots that can be traced back to slavery and even further to the first white European and African encounter. ... However the marked differences between the two cultures inevitably led to ideas ...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since there was a departure of thousands of European immigrants and Northern soldiers during the First World War, numerous jobs were available for black southerners. ... According to Joe Trotter in "The Great Migration", the mass migration of black Southerners to the North reflected not only their quest for freedom, but also caused an emergence of new patterns of race, class, and ethnic relations in American culture (31). ...

• Word Count: 560
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Racial superiority reified and assimilated into folk culture because of American racial ideologies in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... Racial superiority reified and assimilated into folk culture because enviable traits such as progress and empire building became associated with the term. The idea of pure white people and culture was one of the major socioculutral themes to blossom on the American continent. ... The removal of America's indigenous people invoked a feeling of remorse and guilt among the intruders, among the European invaders, among the whites. ... This...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As white peoples and European forces unmercifully plummeted over African grounds in aims to exploit and oppress the nation, masking various cultures and stripping their rightful freedoms away, they exhibited their global power and dominance. ...

• Word Count: 791
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They are developing a psychology that has its roots in the African worldview which is opposite to the European worldview. ... All of these psychologists go on to show their view of psychology and apply/trace them back to African culture. "Her thrust is to define and implement as a critical framework for understanding and achieving maximum mental health a theory of psychology rooted in and reflective of African culture."...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his book, Lipsitz states that "[w]hiteness is everywhere in U.S. culture, but it is very hard to see (Lipsitz 1)." ... In the conclusion of "Whiteness Studies: Nothing but Oppressive and False"" an essay written David Calahan, a professor at the University of Aveiro, found in Anthony David Barker's "Europe Fact and Fiction: A Collection of Essays," Calahan writes, "The way in which [whiteness] might be used within the contexts of the academy of the firm opinion not only that [whiteness] can be used positively, but it must be used positively the danger lies in instituting a discourse of...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate