Should police or figures with authority be allowed to profile individuals based on race? Can even a successful Broadway actor, be stereotyped as a member of the criminal population? Patricia J. Williams presents her view in "Road Rage," and Alton Fitzgerald White explains his case in "Ragtime, My Ti...
America is a nation of immigrants. American's come from every ethnicity, religion and culture and as a result of the mixed ethnicity in US, there are more from Irish ancestry than in Ireland, more Italians in New York than in Venice, as well more Polish, blacks, Jews than in their leading cities of ...
"The hundreds of thousands of construction workers - many of them Latino - who lost their jobs when the housing bubble burst, I want to put them back to work rebuilding our roads and our bridges and new schools and airports all across the country. ...
For at least the last two hundred years, race has functioned as one of the most powerful and yet most fragile markers of social difference. Shakespeare uses the interplay of racial prejudice, and its religious and social significance to craft the corruption of Othello's relationship with Desdemona. ...
In this first of five volumes of autobiography, Maya Angelou tells the story of her life from age three, when her divorcing parents sent her and her brother to live with their maternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, to age sixteen, when, reunited with her mother in San Francisco, she gave birth t...
Ending Racial Profiling The federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. These records should include the person's race; the reason stopped; how long the ca...
In her novel Sula, Toni Morrison immerses the reader in the rich and diverse lives to be found in the black community of Medallion. Morrison illuminates the harmful effect white patriarchal society has on minority members of society; she fights back against this historical oppression by centering he...
The Need to Believe In the late 18th century, a significant belief in the history of the world had arisen. This belief consisted of numerous facts that led to the conclusion of innate white superiority. With the creation of this seed, a tree of unimaginable horror had set into place. A man named...
The recognizable proof of Hughes as a cultural folk poet clouds the idea that he is a splendid writer of thoughts, and radical thoughts at that. The ideas of negritude and soul, the governmental issues of Black Power, the brain science of dark fury, are so well known to black people of the sixties t...
The history of the United States corresponds with the history of basketball. The game of basketball had been created in 1891; it was until 1950 when the game became racially integrated, allowing black men to play on white teams. In 1892, a Gymnastic instructor, Senda Berenson Abbott, adapts to the b...
I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. All lies and jest. Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest. - Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer, 1970 Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Ex...
Moreover, minorities were detained for longer periods of time per stop than whites, and were 80% of those whose cars were searched after being stopped.7 Showing the similar statistic to the previous two, a study of traffic stops on the New Jersey Turnpike found that 46% of those stopped were black, although only 13.5% of the cars on the road had a black driver or passenger and although there was no significant difference in the driving patterns of white and nonwhite motorists.8 To further acknowledge the racially discriminated profiling, ABC news program "20/20 " did a test as part of a report...
