For some time now, feminists have examined literary works in terms of the absent/objectified presence of the Other, in whatever form Other might be recognized (for example, anyone not white, male, or educationally and economically privileged). ... Through significant and underscored omissions, startling contradictions, heavily nuanced conflicts, through the way writers peopled their work with the signs and bodies of this presence--one can see that a real or fabricated Africanist presence was crucial to their sense of Americanness. ...

• Word Count: 301
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While affirmative action creates equal opportunity for some individuals, it discriminates against others, primarily white males. ... Therefore, in situations like job and university applications, we should consider minorities to be as less likely a choice for hire as a white male candidate. ... 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. ... Another situation in which affirmative action will play a part in is the physical work load, both body and mind. Women cannot produce the same a...

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

Using phrases that describe her body help her to show that self-assuredness. ... After the advent of slavery, women continued to be regarded equally by black males. Caretakers of the family, they also worked in the fields along with the black males. ...

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

Affirmative action arose out of a desire to bring minority groups into institutions and professions that had traditionally been dominated by white males. ... Another pro stated at this website is that a diverse student body creates a better learning environment. ... Students can learn a lot from one another, but only if the student body contains representatives of a wide range of backgrounds. ... The last pro on this website is that lowering standards for und-represented groups raises the quality of the student body. ... Affirmative action therefore creates a student body that has tremendous a...

• Word Count: 1530
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. ... Black males are pulled over often, along with Mexicans and minorities alike, by law enforcement for simply being a person of color. ... They believe African American males from the ghetto are the wrong doers in this country and that is a result of the slave trade because, as mentioned earlier, the mental illness of racism has managed to trickle down over the generations. ... As stated by the male par...

• Word Count: 2862
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Not only did another own the produce of her labor, but her body and her reproductive power as well. ... According to DuBois, an American Negro has " two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in the same dark body- (DuBois, The Souls Of Black Folk). ... These issues that ranged from sexual harassment to unwanted children from rape, were absent in Douglass" narrative, as well as the other narratives written by males. ... She also talked about the attempts made by (white) men to gain control of her body, psyche, and baby producing aspects. ...

• Word Count: 1740
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The laws" intent was to afford underprivileged minority groups" equal opportunities for employment that were available to the white male. ... This ruling still provided a good opportunity to attract a diverse student body, but many minorities were not making the acceptable SAT score to enroll in the finer schools in the country. ... Supreme Court to rule recently in favor of the University in saying that colleges and universities had compelling educational reasons for seeking a diverse student body and that they could take an applicants race into account to increase minority enrollment. ... ...

• Word Count: 1980
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Statistics show that more than one-fourth of all black males and 16% of Latinos can expect to spend time in prison during their lifetime, while only 4% of white males will ever go to prison. ... In addition, a third of all African American males aged 20-29 are right now either locked up, on probation, or on parole. ... Witnesses and forensic evidence suggest that the officers fired a second round of shots after a brief pause and that Diallo's body absorbed a majority of the bullets after having hit the ground. ...

• Word Count: 3114
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was not enough that the produce of her labor was owned by her master but her body was his as well.Thus, Jacobs's narrative constructed it's own primary audience of white middle classed women from the North, who were considered the moral guardians of the nation and were horrified by slavery's threat to woman's virtue. ... In conclusion, whether the narrative was written by male or female representative of the African-American race it still conveyed the unanimous and irrefutable message that slavery is an abomination and should be abolished. ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dubois explains this perfectly when he stated: "One ever feels his two-ness, -am American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strengths alone keeps it from being torn asunder......

• Word Count: 3543
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate