Both texts discuss the racial discrimination which has built up over generations due to the cultural assumptions held by members of both the Aboriginal and white communities and examine the tension which exists between the Aboriginal and white communities. ... Both texts show how the lack of understanding between two cultures creates a basic distrust between blacks and whites and often leads to a tragic outcome. ... The underlying assumptions or stereotypes of Aborigines being drunk, aggressive, lazy, unemployable and lacking in ability, are similar in both texts. ... Each text provides insigh...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From the text itself, the author simply gave off a compelling story but transitioned into more of an expository approach to the writing. ... From reading the text, crime has shifted mostly on African Americans in low-income neighborhoods. ...

• Word Count: 565
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, Toni Morrison, in her critical text Playing in the Dark, has argued that everything that constitutes whiteness as a racial identity--from the national literature of the United States to its Constitution to the daily practices of its citizens--is a response to the absent/objectified presence of the black Other or, in her words, "to a dark, abiding, signing Africanist presence" (5). ...

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

As an ancient text of over 3000 years old, with various authors in different places across 1,600 years, the exact facts of authorship are obviously contested. ... However, inherent to its nature as a text as the foundation of Christianity is its reliance on Christians to accept the word as God's unquestionable divine truth. ...

• Word Count: 1094
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Du Bois indicates later in the text that the alienation Jim experiences results from racism. Thinking of the text holistically, one can deduce that the contrast used above is to emphasize Jim's experience of isolation as a black person in a society in which white people are considered superior. ... Throughout the text, Du Bois successfully uses water to express Jim's loneliness and misery resulting from racial discrimination. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The revised version of "Just Walk on By", by Brent Staples, differs significantly from the original text even though it contains many of the same components and basically tells the same story. ... Rather, Staples cites texts in which white men describe the intense anxiety that they feel when encountering a black man on the streets. ...

• Word Count: 1531
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

James Weldon Johnson's first-person narrator in his fictional interpretation, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," a skeptical, point-of-view about skin color. The narrator, decides to pass for white after numerous variations between assuming his status as a black man who wants to stand for...

• Word Count: 977
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through the analysis of various text, it can be discerned that the actions of the United States heavily influenced not only the decisions of the South African government but also the actions of disenfranchised peoples, blacks and coloured alike, living in South Africa who could now emulate the social movement of civil rights in America. ... This assertion within the Moodley and Heribert text gives insight into the delusions of the National Party during this era. ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1501
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Section 1: Question 2 Slave narratives such as The Narrative life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl help readers try to experience and understand what life was like as a slave. These writings really get into specifics regarding the treatment of African-Americans in t...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This text is saying that the African nationalist movement's old methods of non-violence and peaceful protest have been proven useless by Sharpeville and that Africans are now going to fight with everything they can in defense of their people, future and freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1663
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Growing up, I only had interest in guys that were African-American. This reason is because I knew I would feel uncomfortable dating someone who had lighter skin, and spoke differently from me, so I wouldn't even bother thinking about dating someone outside of my ethnic circle. It is so much easier d...

• Word Count: 1895
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more ac...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Old Racism Old racism originated in the 16th century with the beginning of chattel slavery. 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. In essence, chattel s...

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

In 1948, when the National Party won the general election in South Africa, a system known as apartheid took place in the country. The National Party is a South African political party that was founded in 1914. The members of the mentioned party are usually known as nationalists or Natz. Among its po...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate