Since the end of slavery after the Civil War, race riots found their place in our country's history, and though it has been decades since extreme situations of racial segregation or discrimination have plagued our society, that doesn't mean either one has completely vanished. ... Participants of the Chicago race riots, on both sides, (white and black), took to the streets ready for violence, and anything in between. ... The riots embodied merciless, brutal violence towards members of the opposite race. ... Moreover, it was how the police responded to the situation and how they esca...

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This is the conflicting idea is that of WOC are being forced to choose between associating with their gender or associating with their race with the extreme unlikeliness of finding a happy medium. ... When not battling sexism and racism, problems like inequality and WOC being targeted by racialized gender violence become a major threat....

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They wanted equal opportunities in employment, the right to vote, access to the same public facilities, equal education, housing, and most of all to be free of the horrible prejudices and violence that followed them everywhere they went. ... Nazi Germany and Hitler's attitudes toward anyone that wasn't part of the Aryan race showed people firsthand the horrors of extreme prejudice. ...

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Prejudice becomes threatening when it reaches its most extreme form, known as bigotry. ... This negative attitude and violence observed in this particular scene, is an example of prejudice, known as a negative feeling and predisposition of behavior towards a group or any member belonging to that group. ...

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Apartheid, literally meaning separateness or setting apart , was the ideology of the South African National Party that made the segregation of and discrimination against non-whites government policy. In this paper I will discuss how two different theories of state repression can be applied to the Apartheid regime in South Africa. I will discuss how High Modernism, a theory constructed by James Scott, and Organic Nationalism, a theory put forth by Michael Mann, contributed to Apartheid ideology. High Modernism rationalized, regulated, structured, and reorganized South Africa into a society t...

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