For example, Staples notices that people avoid making eye contact with him or people cross the street to avoid coming in contact with him. Staples cites from two essays in which the authors are both intensely uncomfortable in the presence of black men on certain streets and Staples also notes that he often notices the "hunch posture" (256) that one of the authors describes in his essay. ... For example, he allows more space between himself and others on the streets and begins to whistle classical tunes while walking down the street. ... He ends his essay with a justification of this behav...

• Word Count: 1531
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... Donnell starts the essay with an immediate fishhook, "I"m cool like this:" (367) in order to firstly grab the reader's attention and secondly to make the initial point about just how cool he is. ... He uses lots of references to concrete, specific examples such as slaves making their master's waste into a tasty meal (368) or creating the roots of so much popular music today in the plantation fields (368) or...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the essay, "unpacking the Knapsack," Peggy McIntosh contracts multiple rhetorical strategies to contain her readers to validate her claim about racism as well as privilege. ... This act of acknowledging was most likely achieved just by reading through her essay, which means that the reader who agrees with her has nothing else that he/she is burdened to do. ... One of the most important strategies that she uses is what she does at the end of her essay. Peggy McIntosh has triumphantly described and provided examples from a professionals perspective on how today's society stil...

• Word Count: 1069
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Stranger in the Village" is an essay he wrote documenting his encounter while visiting a tiny Swiss village that is approximately "four hours away from Milan" (Baldwin, 165). ... In the essay "Stranger in the Village," Baldwin expresses his feelings of loneliness and being out of place in a tiny Swiss village, and compares it to black men's general feelings of being a stranger in an unfamiliar world created by white men. Baldwin explains that a white man can never feel like a stranger wherever he goes, because of his advantage of the assumed distinction and ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, in the 1954 Brown v. ... For example, when Lipsitz writes, "Although surveys showed that many Canadian, Italian, Israeli, and Irish citizens lived and worked in California without proper credentials from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the popular campaign expressly targeted immigrants from Mexico and Central America."... 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 ...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
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This essay will critically evaluate the evidence for the view that the American criminal justice system is racist, comment on the view that the Justice system is racist, with evidence gathered from both sides of the argument, and will conclude to agree with the view that the system is racist. ... For example, the New York state division of criminal justice did a 1995 review of disparities in processing arrests and found that in some parts of New York blacks are 33% more likely to be detained awaiting trial than whites. ... For example in Houston County, Alabama, 8 out of 10 African Americans...

• Word Count: 2307
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hughes ended his essay by saying that, "we build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.... In the two examples I gave we see how the heart of the black man was taken out of his depiction. ...

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Current criminal justice system and criminal laws in the United States are biased, even though it facially displays neutrality.4 This essay will provide examples and following analysis of the cases of minority groups getting disadvantages from racial discrimination under criminal law. ... The car filled with young black men was stopped by the police several times; the white group was not stopped once, despite observing police cars in their immediate area at least 16 times during the evening.9 As examples above have shown, negative images on blacks that they are more likely to commit crim...

• Word Count: 2471
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on ...

• Word Count: 3584
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate