Similarly, important was the role black women on an individual level played in offering a model for white women to follow. Because black men had a harder time finding employment, black women had a history of working outside the home while balancing their role as a mother. ... By educating and fostering leadership, Baker helped members to see themselves as potential leaders – regardless of race or gender. Although she was an influential leader, Baker was limited by her gender to become a formal leader. ... If a black woman were denied a job, it would be impossible to discern whether it wa...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These resistant interpretations of Othello not only highlight their existence within Elizabethan society, but also their relevance in a contemporary context, by their gender inequalities and racial prejudice. ... Feminist criticism is the way that gender assumptions, especially about women, operate in Othello. ... The play consists of three significant women, Desdemona, Emilia and Bianca, who each play quite a different role but their subsequent downfalls can be seen as signifying the restrictions that a patriarchal society oppresses on them. ... Desdemona's loyalty represents the...

• Word Count: 861
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Maya Angelou's poem Phenomenal Woman suggests that women have always had an essential role in society. ... In addition, African American women are forced to combat the dual stereotypes of race and gender. ... Because popular and commercial materials were created and disseminated to large segments of American culture, they served both to reflect and to perpetuate a range of race, gender, and class stereotypes and/or fears. ... The societal role of African-American women has a history of independence and leadership. ...

• Word Count: 1267
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her study features the active role that the African American played in the political process and the development of southern progressivism. Also, Glenda Gilmore highlights "the manipulation of concepts of gender by white supremacist and shows how this rhetoric changed once women, black and white, gained the vote....

• Word Count: 1026
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Too Late the Phalarope tells the story of a white South African policeman, Pieter van Vlaanderen, whose career and reputation are ruined when it is discovered that he has had a sexual relationship with a black woman named Stephanie. Pieter, an Afrikaner and the son of a fiercely conservative Afrikan...

• Word Count: 1438
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This reversal of roles in racial discrimination does nothing but cause arguments and problems for both those for white males and those in the minority. ... So in many times bosses are not discriminating because of race or gender but of pure power. ...

• Word Count: 2152
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Affirmative Action has been law since 1961 when President John F. Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to extinguish discrimination due to race, religion or national origin. Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ever since the Congress of the United States passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the United States has achieved a significant progress on the subject of establishing equal treatment for all citizens under the law.3 Many laws and theories aim for fair and equal rights among people despite their race, gender or age and discrimination has been seemingly disappeared from society. ...

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