But there are still thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all races who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmative action. When these policies received executive branch and judicial support, vast numbers of people of color, white women and immigrants have gained access they would not otherwise have had. ... With a little incite and wisdom from others I intend to prove that the diversity that affirmative action has brought ...

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Toni Morrison's "Recitatif,"" narrates the temporally isolated encounters of two women first brought together within the walls of St. ... The narrator's mother certainly intended her statement to be classify a certain race, but it may "function symmetrically for black women and for white women"" (Abel 471). ... The women recounted updates on their lives and adventures at St. ... In vexation, Roberta seethes, "You're the same little state kid who kicked a poor black lady when she was down on the ground. ... This confession invokes sympathy in Twyla, and the women reach an unders...

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Despite the fact that many poor Whites were finally given the opportunity to partake in the political and economic opportunities that were previously available only to White male landowners, no rights whatsoever were given to women and Jacksonian policies were oppressive toward most minorities. ... Jackson and his followers showed little or no concern over the morality of slavery. ... Even though women and minorities were given virtually no personal liberties, looking at what Jackson called "the common man" (an everyday white man), Jacksonian Democrats provided a great deal of personal liber...

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Sula challenges the dominant ideology through the deconstruction of binary oppositions, working to demarginalize the roles of blacks as well as women in society. ... Instead she focuses her narrative on the black community where the white is the Other and contact between the two races has little effect on daily life. ... The bargeman's immediate conclusion that Chicken Little was drowned by the boy's parents as well as his reflections on the cursed black people and the burden of their rehabilitation that is placed on white society seem all the more absurd and ignorant having read M...

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As a little boy, Black Elk witnessed his village being invaded by Wasichus, a term that was used by Indians to designate the white man, but having no reference to the color of his skin. ... Black Elk, being a little afraid, always influenced his friends into fighting believing and thinking always about his vision, which seemed reality to him. ... But the perception of the vision he had was only a dream and when he was looking back at it, he remembered how the last battle was, where he saw dead bodies of women and children scattered all over the ground and the soldiers pointing their guns. ... ...

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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. ... It's brought up during Tom's trial by a group of white women discussing him in the kitchen. To these women, colored folk are quite far below them, "S-s-s it doesn't matter to 'em one bit. ... The women of Maycomb believe most of the colored men to be uneducated, and thusly they misbehave and cause trouble such as rape, steal and murder. ...

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Women have been treated inferior to men, throughout much of American history. Today sexism is being supported and unknowingly encouraged by both men and women through benevolent sexism. ... When the individuals who are victim to this prejudice and racism actually observe these unearned disadvantages take place they see little hope for improvement. ...

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One strategy that she uses throughout her narrative is to shift the blame for Pieter's actions to other people, especially other women. ... In portraying Stephanie as the seducer, Sophie relies on the racial stereotype of black women as sexually promiscuous as well as on the cultural and religious stereotype of woman as the source of sin. ... Pieter receives more than his share; Nella receives very little; Stephanie none at all. ...

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This is rampant in the story and very little attention is paid to it, it uses derogatory words such as yellow to describe people. ... Armand 's nature could be compared to a very spoilt little child (which he probably was) consider - he takes out his anger on his servants or slaves, he has a nature described as exacting. ... We can assume this from where it says, When he frowned she trembled although in the 19th century women where still considered lessors by men. ...

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Black Elk, being a little afraid, always influenced his friends into fighting believing and thinking always about his vision, which seemed reality to him. ... But the perception of the vision he had was only a dream and when he was looking back at it, he remembered how the last battle was, where he saw dead bodies of women and children scattered all over the ground and the soldiers pointing their guns. ... The ways in which the author could strengthen the book, in my opinion, is instead all the descriptive, to me meaningless points as how they were coloring themselves, the author should have p...

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She made it a point to highlight the ideological differences between the north and the south because she wanted to make the argument as much about ideas and as little about skin color as possible. She talked thankfully about white women of the North coming and teaching blacks during reconstruction. "From every nook and corner of the North, brave young white women answered the call .. and went to the south to carry light and truth to the benighted blacks". ...

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"Once hip hop became popular, critics attributed it to the destruction of the Black community, gang and drug related violence, demeaning of women, and the overall destruction of America's values....

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People who are fond of creating generalizations are those who wish to fit the story into a neat, little box. ... He is far more concerned with class status in relation to black people and makes this apparent in the type of men and women he befriends. ...

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I think Staples has every right to be bitter, although intentionally frightening people for his own amusement is a little over the top. ... Instead, it is recreating the degrading stereotype of black men and women from the past. ...

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This poet was not alone though as Black art suffered greatly them in America and these people tried to fuse as little Black and as much American as possible into their craft in a bid to be given a chance to fit into the Caucasian standard of what was consider American. ... As Jacobs said, "slavery is bad for men, but it is far more terrible for women" (Jacobs, 1861). ...

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1. INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. He then hires the white street lawyer Jake Brigance as his attorney, who also defended his brother in a different case. A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan ...

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