The idea of pure white people and culture was one of the major socioculutral themes to blossom on the American continent. ... Americans so strongly accepted the myth of white superiority because it comforted those whites that might on occasion be smitten with moral doubts about slavery and the exploitation of indigenous peoples. ... This belief stated that they had a Manifest Destiny to take over these "lesser" people, if in fact they could be called people at all. ... The need for assurance in innate white superiority was so great that the people of that time would debunk any ideas that co...

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So when the duke and the dauphin come to dupe such people at their low point for their own selfish wants, well of course the spectacle would make anybody cynical. The spectacle illustrates just how unsympathetic, immoral, dangerous, and utterly terrible people can be, so much so that it makes Huck overwhelmingly disappointed and embarrassed to the point of being "ashamed " of his own kind of people. Not coincidentally, too, the con men duping these people are white. ... The scam has surely confounded Huck's idea of white "goodness," creating a gray area between the black-white paradigm:...

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Scout is exposed to hatred and racism to colored people as she grows up in Maycomb. ... 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. ... Deprivation didn't stop there, as in Baltimore the colored folk were not allowed to live near white people, "No black person could occupy a home on a block where more than half the people were white;" (The Editorial Board). Even when the colored families can afford to live in the same neighborhood as white people if the majority of the occ...

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He considered white Americans to be an unjust, blood- thirsty people that are unmerciful -true barbarians. David Walker believed that white Americans treat their African slaves worse than any other people have ever been treated. ... He exemplified the backwardness of the white man's concept of barbarism by pointing out that the white American is the true barbarian. ... Abolitionism was working in places, and David Walker made an attempt to tip the scales of an often-teetering nation for the sake of himself and his people. In his work Appeal, Walker proved to the reader the intellectual ca...

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The apartheid system was enforced by a series of repressive laws and regulations which prohibited social contact between races, enforced segregation of public facilities, the separation of educational standards, created race-specific job categories, restricted powers of non-white unions and curbed non-white participation in government. ... This act could declare certain organisations illegal, place people under house arrest, ban meetings and gatherings, ban newspapers and other publications, and detain witnesses for political trial. ... The Sharpeville massacre clearly brought change to South ...

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This religious justification was also coupled with the White Man's Burden. The White Man's Burden idea consisted of civilizing people throughout the world; "civilized" meaning people who are Christians. Supposedly it was the obligatory burden of white men to civilize the people who are "primitive" and enforce order and laws in foreign lands in order to make them civil. ... The White Man's Burden is the least convincing, this is an arrogant, pretentious piece of writing as well as ideology. ... Along a system that divides the countries in Africa as well as its people. ...

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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). ... 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...

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Segregation of people has been around for thousands of years, and yet humans are only now coming to solve this enormous problem. ... In 1948, racial segregation, known as apartheid, took control of South Africa, substantially limiting the rights of colored peoples. Black Africans suffered the most discrimination and the wrath of the ruling white elite, barely having any political rights and kept from the same privileges as the white citizens. ... However, in the major centers of South Africa, apartheid is essentially non-existent, with an increase of the colored people's rights. ... This ...

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They addressed the needs that were ignored by white women and black men in the women's and liberation movement. ... The women's movement was preoccupied with white women's status and position in regards to white men. ... There were people with enough powerful influences in these groups to make the lives of these black revolutionaries unbearable. The inability of white women and black men to acknowledge, understand or incorporate these issues prompted the formation of the black feminist movement. ... Included with the images of lesbianism and man-hating, black women were told...

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The crowd was peaceful and non-violent, however the people at the front of the massive crowd were constantly being pushed forwards as a result of the thousands of people behind them trying to see what was happening up front. ... "I do not know how many people were shot. ... The other militant group, "Poqo" exercised violent tactics, targeting white civilians and police. ... This new form of protest put the white governments of South Africa under a great deal of pressure. ... Prior to March 21st 1960, the oppressive white governments were confident in their control of South Africa. ...

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They are also meant to stir up a moral feeling for the slave, and if successful in doing so, to prove that slave laws are immoral and inhuman - this would "convince the people of the Free States what Slavery really is"(Jacobs XIV ), and would contribute to its abolishment. Humanity was denied from the black slaves in order to justify white ownership over them, and treating slaves inhumanly convinced the white owner that slaves were inhuman. ... Even if the father was white, by the "one drop rule" the child was considered to be black and thus "followed the condition of the mother"(Douglass 3...

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Who were these people? ... The general perception of the white slave traders and owners due to African men having a number of wives was that there could be no ties of family. ... With the power to heal or to make ill or they were both revered and feared by white and black alike. The whites feared these people because of their strong influence over the slaves and tried everything they could think of to abolish the "heathen" ritual punishing anyone they found practicing, however, the Obeah remained an influential figure in African slave life. ... During these years" black and white mixed, with b...

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Leopold knew how to control and manipulate people in powerful political positions, and hastily used this maneuvering as a way to cause very little investigation. ... Sheppard had a change of opinion after being appalled by the acts of white residents in the Congo. ... Williams had been to the White House visiting President Chester A. ... Sheppard's ticket to the Congo required that he was accompanied by a superior white missionary. ... Fortunately, people such as Sheppard and Williams were ahead of their time and understood that immense amounts of crimes against humanity were taking...

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The film also explored how the music industry works in South Africa and it revealed how Zulu workers practiced their secret war dance rituals against white people. ... It is also interesting how the youth has carried change and that many different styles are played by different people in the various places where they reside. People play instruments and dance Maskanda in different ways and it is kind of cool in my opinion because the dances performed can be rooted in the neighborhood or area where their maskanda comes from. ... Mbaqanga originated in the early 1960's but still is a continu...

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The findings of this study show that broadcasting - radio in particular - has become the dominant news source for the nation, an effective instrument of propaganda for the government and a powerful influence in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the Zambian people. ... TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION i DECLARATION ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii ABSTRACT ...

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In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. ... Walcott has both African and European roots; his grandmothers were both black, and both grandfathers were white. ... Ironically, wars between people are described as following the beat of a drum - an instrument made of an animal hide stretched over a cylinder. ... Then, on October 20, 1952, after Mau Mau killings of European cattle and the execution of a Kikuyu chief loyal to the British, a state of emergency was declared and an order sent out for the arrest...

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Those are the people of Africa. ... Where those people once had homes and where free till the one day the White man took them and bought them back to a new world which then leads to history and that this point I can trace a chronological records of significant events such as slavery, the civil right movement and the civil right act. In 1866 the civil rights act was passed and this allowed blacks to have the same equal right as the white people, in 1863 president Lincoln issued the Emancipations Proclamation law. ... I think it is a way of social structure to create low income housing so they c...

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The use of the term "boy", which implies the bottom of social hierarchy, shows that black African men are perceived to be inferior and forced to be obedient to the white settlers. ... Likewise, in Joys of Motherhood, Cordelia states that "men here are too busy being white men's servants to be men" (Emecheta 51). ... He has faith that educated young people have the power to liberate themselves from their oppressors. ... This diminishing of optimism becomes evident when Njoroge listened to one of his peers, Karanja, excitedly delineate the deception of the white police f...

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Key to the understanding of racial separation, as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws in America and the system of apartheid in South Africa, is the understanding of race itself and the effects of categorizing people by skin color as to provide a benefit to one of the parties involved, usually the minority party. ... With respect to America and South Africa, race was created as a measure of exclusion and a platform to consolidate power among a white elite. ... This unification was evident in the creation of Jim Crow laws that allowed all white superior lining conditions despite their ...

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Imperialism is the extension of sovereignty or control by one group of people over another. ... The duty to civilize non-white primitives and help them evolve became much of Europe's self-indulged "burden." The belief was that these people would eventually benefit from this modernization. ... The response of the people of these republics and other areas varied. ... For many countries, like Britain's Rhodes, saw non-whites as inferior and were subject to white leadership. ...

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The poor trade value, insistent natives, and uneducated peoples created many negative aspects to Africas colonizers. ... A poem by David Diop from An Anthology of West African Verse says that "The White Man killed my father, My father was proud. The White Man seduced my mother, My mother was beautiful." ... Imperialism has had a very large impact on Africa's people, culture, and economy. ... The colony acquired jobs to stimulate the developing economy, a new religion brought by the Europeans, and the security of the people/their property, but lost their freedom, fundamental human rights,...

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He observes different kinds of abuse of power by white people, just because they believe they are superior because they had better weapons of war. ... His terminal illness represents the eventual death of imperialism due to the inability to adapt and respect the culture, religion and people of the country that is being invaded. ... Maybe Conrad isn't completely against Imperialism but through his story he demonstrates how materialistic white man is, as they don't understand how spiritually developed natives are. He also makes us think that he believes that in Imperialism, Europe, th...

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The black people in South Africa were discriminated publicly. ... The black people were standing up to the government, which was at the time mostly made up of white people. ... During the course of the movement the black people campaigned for the release of non-white people detained without trial and many more to do with the unfair treatment of the black citizens. ... A government that does not reflect the will of the people must be removed from power. ... Those in power who do not reflect the will of the people must be removed from that power. ...

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Since storytellers or griots focus mainly on the history of their people ancestors are usually the principal subjects of a particular chronicle of the past (Stuckey, 14). ... Suddenly the people in the ring start to scream and spin and run around as if possessed and this continues until the "spirit" leaves them. ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical traditions. Black and white spirituals share many tunes and texts; blacks and whites mingled at camp meetings, and musical influences probably traveled both ways. ...

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Imperialism is one of these key themes, believed by Europeans to be the solution to the "White Man's Burden-. ... Rather, they had to hide their ineptitude behind the shimmery veil of philanthropy and the "White Man's Burden-. ... (Adelman 28) Marlow is one of the few people in the novel to realize the truth of this statement, the only other being Kurtz. ... Kieran puts it, Africa in this period became very truly a Dark Continent, but its darkness was one the invaders brought with the, the somber shadow of the white man'."" (Hampson Xi) In Conrad's novel, Kurtz is the som...

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