The Aborigines live in the back streets, a place where any white man is afraid to venture. ... It is significant that the white men "avoid all the back streets" whereas the black man is "taking all the back streets". ... Dumby is not given equal status in the football team, despite his superior talent, as it goes against the ideals and stereotypes held by the white coach and the local community. ... In "Deadly Unna" Blacky matures and begins to question the accepted assumptions which he has come to believe to be true about the Aboriginal community. Blacky comes to recognise that Dumby's f...

• Word Count: 1285
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Baldwin explains that a white man can never feel like a stranger wherever he goes, because of his advantage of the assumed distinction and position as an example of authority. ... Baldwin writes, "America comes out of Europe, but these people have never seen America. ... Baldwin writes about how any American Negro wishing to trace his ancestry back to Africa "will find his journey through time abruptly arrested by the signature on the bill of sale which served as the entrance paper for his ancestors" (Baldwin 169). In contrast, he asserts that there are Haitians, Cubans and Braz...

• Word Count: 1313
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Morrison illuminates the harmful effect white patriarchal society has on minority members of society; she fights back against this historical oppression by centering her novel on the internal life of the black community. ... The tale of the Bottom highlights the history of white duplicity and mistreatment of blacks that caused the town on the side of the hills to come about. ... Just as Helene cannot openly go against the conductor, neither can Jude fight back against his oppressors. ... In the same way, fire and water are the leading causes of death in the novel, and though normally thought o...

• Word Count: 1501
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some police officers have taken extreme measures in regards to implementing the law when it comes to African Americans. ... Once captured even if they were free, slaves were forced back into slavery, and during this time blacks were refused the right to be able to defend themselves in a court of law.  ... These can be reasons or statements that the court cannot go against, so in this way the court is allowing racism on the police's behalf. Immeasurable cases of police brutality are broadcasted on today's local news channels, featured in the latest blogs and going viral on soci...

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Here, it is interesting to notice that, in the United States, ancestry plays a bigger role than appearance when it comes to define one's race, because if it were for his appearance only, the narrator probably live his entire life as a white man. ... Therefore, throughout the novel, he goes from the impersonation of a white identity, moving to the black one, and going back to his condition as a white man. ...

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In fact the main question they discuss is if everything will go back to "normal". ... All she desires is his love and acceptance, in fact she comes out and says "And if I do it you"ll be happy and you"ll love me?" ... This connection to American society is comes from the fact the man's name is not given and he instead refers to him as "the American". ... In fact his writing is similar to Hemingway in the sense that he goes to great strides to make the reader focus on the issue at hand and makes careful use of symbolism, however Banks is much more vivid with his descriptions and very m...

• Word Count: 2067
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These prejudices and values are passed from her family into her definition of self, and Emma Lou comes to believe that only by association with "the right sort of people" will she ever fit in and decides to seek out a college with intelligent, yet diverse social circles away from home. ... Thurman does this by giving the reader insight into Emma Lou's mind and showing how the character has come to be racist against herself and her own people. ... Instead of dealing with her problem, Emma Lou takes her uncle's opinion that going to LA will be good for her, and she becomes sure tha...

• Word Count: 1573
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(Pg. 443) Black psychology has set forth new definitions, conceptual models, and test theories that come from the heart of the Black experience. ... He uncovered his thoughts in his work, Why Blacks Kill Blacks, where he goes on to give reason for Black on Black crime. ... This led him to believe that a Black frame of reference was needed and it would enable Black psychologist to come up with a more accurate explanation for "Black life". ... All of these psychologists go on to show their view of psychology and apply/trace them back to African culture. ...

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This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, as the book references her. ... As she gets older and wiser, she comes to the conclusion that the colored men are just like white men and that the world is unfair to colored people. One example of oppression comes in the form of deprivation of rights and materials, which basically means that someone is not allowed the same rights to the constitutional law, rules, and anything of equal status when it comes to legality. ......

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Go to court to defend it? ... Meanwhile, African Americans were living with their deteriorating freedoms that almost pushed them back into slavery. ... After a short summary, the author types his last sentence: "It is the first time a congressman has come to this area to talk on race relations." ...

• Word Count: 1986
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Kolko goes on to say that the big business men were the Progressives. ... Gilmore stated, "Black women fought back after disfranchisement by adapting progressive programs to their own purposes, even while they chose tactics that left them invisible in the political process.... Gilmore is the most persuasive of the three historians by far, with her many excellent accomplishments that the African American women did for their society for them to be able to live a better life in many years to come. ...

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Firstly, there will be a closer look on the de-factor-segregation between black and white people, then on the racial discrimination going on during the crucial phase of jury selection, and eventually the inequality of the verdicts people of different races receive. 4.1. ...

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(Crawford et al, 1990, pp. 72-74) It was the women that organized this key moment in the Civil Rights Movement – which was, in fact, spurred by a woman, Rosa Parks, refusing to take her seat in the back of the bus. ... The women go on to explain that "we've talked in the movement about trying to build a society which would see basic human problems (which are now seen as private troubles), as public problems and would try to shape institutions to meet human needs rather than shaping people to meet the needs of those with power" (Gosse, 2005, pp. 102-103). ...

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Among its policies, apartheid comes first as well as encouragement of African culture and tradition. ... But students refused to give up and turn back because they were determined to go with the protest until they get what they wanted. ...

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This was too often a cycle associated with lower-income children, who would work their way up in the drug game, get caught up and jailed, and then come back into the world feeling as though crime is the only way of survival. ... The culture industry's intended one-dimensional representation of hip hop music for the purpose of attracting white consumers goes off of historically negative assumptions of Black culture, like the buck caricature of blackface. ...

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