As I sit down at my seat, all of my so-called friends start to call me names and tease me. ... Moreover, if the child was raised by both parents, the child can easily distinguish the different characteristics of both cultures. By the child knowing these different characteristics, it is found that a bi-racial child finds it easier to have close friends, a boyfriend or girlfriend, who is white or black, than a monoracial child. ... Being a bi-racial child is harder as a child because children engage in name-calling and other cruel behaviors. ... He quoted: "If there is someone who personality-wi...

• Word Count: 1843
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• Grade Level: High School

In the work entitled "Racisms", Kwame Anthony Appiah explains the heart of racism as to be a doctrine called racialism. ... These unique traits create the "racial essence" as Appiah calls it. ... These two forms are called extrinsic racism and intrinsic racism. ... When a family adopts a child of a different race it shows that they have no biological relatedness and different characteristics. ... In families, when a mother gives birth to a child they share a special connection from the beginning. ...

• Word Count: 1282
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In an article called, Disfigured Images, by Patricia Morton, she discuses the withering away of this mammy image. ... They need to work together on the issues of childcare to ensure that the children a raised in what Hooks calls, "the best possible social framework." ... Black mothers have realized that raising a child alone is not a wise choice. So in most black communities women have agreed to share the mothering responsibilities with women who are often called othermothers. ... Othermothers offer the child another form of support besides their bloodmothers. ...

• Word Count: 1853
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Mary was the type of child that took opportunities when they became available to her. ... "Mary picked up a book while she was playing with a white child, whose parents employed Mary's mother. "The white child grabbed the book and told Mary she couldn't have it because African Americans couldn't read" (Botsch 1). ... A few years later, a woman in Detroit decided that she would pay for all of Mary's expenses at a school in North Carolina called Scotia Seminary. ... In the same year, Bethune opened the school that she dreamed of called Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute ...

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The child is stillborn and Pecola goes insane withdrawing into a fantasy world where she has the bluest eyes of all. ... The story is about the unraveling of society's lowest of the low: a black female child. ... Maureen is described as "a high-yellow dream child with long brown hair There was a hint of spring in her sloe green eyes, something summery in her complexion."" She looks white, or as white as a black child can get. ... She calls out to "Polly-, her nickname for Pauline. ...

• Word Count: 1291
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As a child Baraka deeply affected by his pop culture heroes he created his very own comic strips and science fiction tales. He was a very intelligent child and had a deep interest in music. ... Together they published a literary magazine called the Yugen. ... During the same period Baraka along with Diane di Prima, coeditor an underground literary newsletter called Floating Bear. ... Baraka had become such a central figure among the village artists by 1964 that, without undue exaggeration, he was called the King of the East village in an article. ...

• Word Count: 2297
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• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes" early life prepared him well to write about humanity, for as a child and young man he lived in different places and met many different kinds of people. ... Born to Nathanial Hughes and Carrie Mercere on February 1, 1902 in Joplin Missouri, young Langston form the very start was a very bright and curious child (Haskins 2). ... His mother finally called for him, and they moved to Topeka, Kansas where he first discovered the library and books. ... By fishing in all corners of what he called the "big sea" of literature Hughes was becoming by 1930 a recognized and commercially succ...

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• Grade Level: High School

No matter where we go, African-Americans know that someone is just a phone call away; we always have someone to look out for us. 2. ... The Black church is more than a place for worship, it is a place where people go to socialize, counsel or get counseling; it is a place where children go after school until their parents get off of work; it is a place where a teenage mother can receive the love and support she needs and deserves, and a place where her child will be loved as a new life God has brought into the world, rather than as an illegitimate child (which is how many children born out o...

• Word Count: 1387
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Calegero, "C" was what his friends called him, was different from everyone else and was in conflict with himself and his friends because he liked a girl that was African American. ... As a young adult, she fell in love with her then boyfriend who was Cuban, and they conceived a child together. ... Not only was she grieving for the loss of her boyfriend, but was heartbroken over the fact that her child will never know who his father is. ... During an interview she explained to me that, "They didn't even invite us to the funeral even though he, and I shared a child together! ...

• Word Count: 1895
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They were always called Mammy by the white families. ... In the article, Robinson talks about Alice Randall's book, The Wind Done Gone, and tells about the gruesome story of how a Mammy had to neglect her own child to give her full attention to the master's children which later resulted in the death of the child (63). ... There were times when Mammies would have to reject their own child from breastfeeding so she could breastfeed the master's child, and many slave owners would not let Mammy breastfeed her own children at all because they thought that it would take away nutrien...

• Word Count: 2170
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Seamus Heaney's poem, Mid-Term Break, is a great example of how society's expectations can impact identity because the poem is about a young man who is away at school to obtain an education and establish his identity when he is called back home to deal with the death of his younger brother. From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. ... Instead of pursuing his identity and feeling like an in...

• Word Count: 2322
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Discrimination is prevalent when people that are different are called names. ... She calls Scout ma'am and Jem sir, although these are titles usually reserved for elders. ... "Jem," I asked, "what's a mixed child?" ... She also learns not to judge Atticus for the ways in which he raises his children and to let Scout be a child while she can. ... You can call it racism, narrow-mindedness, bigotry or intolerance. ...

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He was a leader made by his answer to a call. As a black Baptist preacher, he answered the call of God. ... Martin Luther King embraced the tradition of call and response and declared himself a man willing to rise to the occasion of leadership, regardless the personal cost. ... Their first child was Christine King, followed by Martin Luther King, Jr., and ending with Alfred Daniel Williams King III. ... Martin called her to ask for a date and, after some resistance, she agreed. ...

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African-American musicians created two new styles of music called "Jazz" and "Swing". ... Jean was often thought to be a white child, even though he was half African-American. ... He attended an all black school as a child. Jean was an average child of his time but at age ten was faced with severe stomach ailments. ...

• Word Count: 2498
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When he passed away, she went to write a poem dedicated to him called The Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the poems inside Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment. ... They had always encouraged her to get involved in different things and as a child at school she was a well-rounded student. ... One could almost call this book a "guide to Nikki" because it where she explains herself and her views, not as an autobiography, but almost as though it were a diary. ... One of her most prized books was a mix of literature and politics called Those Who Ride the Night Winds. ... She con...

• Word Count: 1670
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Centuries later, even after the Civil War (the war that was so called fought to "free slaves" but in actuality was fought over power and control by two separate factions of the ruling class) Africans were still resisting. ... Bruce, the "prince of Negro Newspaper correspondents", call for African Americans to apply the principle of self-defense against White terrorists. In his speech, he called people who refused to stand-up for their families cowards. ... Whites wanted to regulate (brutally whip and perhaps kill) Trice's son; Trice refused to let them assault his chil...

• Word Count: 1964
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He did not like these styles of song because, the way he heard it had lots of moaning in it and to him as a child it was very confusing. ... A combination of the old hymnody of Watts, and of the African "call and response" sung in country churches. This distinctive style of religious music he insisted should be called "Gospel". ...

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While decrying racism and the inequities it created for blacks and other minorities, Hughes called for cooperation among all races. ... James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, on February 1, 1902, the only child of James and Carrie Hughes to survive infancy. ... Though he became less radical in some of his political views, he continued to call for an end to racism and segregation in America. ...

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Pocola's initial appearance signals a shift to a more coherent narration, although still told by Claudia with the subjective naiveté of a child. ... Even as a child she senses, she knows, that white ideals deny her reality by forcing it into strange forms or appearance and experience. (David 68) But Claudia, too, learns to interject those ideals knowing that, in order to be loved and accepted, she must conform because, as she remembers, "all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured-(Morrison 20) But Morrison is no...

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In 1939, renowned artist Augusta Savage received a commission from the World's Fair to create a 16-foot plaster sculpture and she called it, Lift Every Voice and Sing. ... On August 19, 1955-the day preceding Till left with his uncle and cousin for Mississippi-Mamie Till provided for her child his late father's seal ring, engraved with the initials "L.t." The following day she drove her child to the 63rd Street station in Chicago. ...

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According to Historian Gilbert Osofsky, "Largelyl within the space of a single decade, Harlem was transformed from a potentially ideal community to a neighborhood called "deplorable", "unspeakable", "incredible". ... The New Negro is defined as a person who calls for social order and demands that blacks fight back against racism and segregation in American society. ...

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As a direct response, the Eight White Clergymen wrote "A Call For Unity," urging demonstrators to withdraw their support from these activities and to approach this issue through the courts. ... King continues on by explaining that one of his affiliates that are local to Birmingham requested his presents there "to be on call to engage in nonviolent direct-action program if deemed necessary.... This letter was not only directed to the Clergymen but the moderate whites of this time, and both the Clergymen and the moderate whites can relate to the fact that it is true pain to see a ...

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This was written as an analysis of the Atlanta child murders of 1979 and 1980. ... The play was a racial wake-up call to all of the races and cultures in the United States, which might find racism or ethnocentrism as a social "security blanket". It also called the African American man to the civil rights battlefield and forced the white man to look at and analyze himself through a critical looking glass. ...

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As a child, he tries to find a way to escape his circumstances. ... He does not attempt to expand on earlier biographical accounts but instead focuses on the Baldwin's relationship to Harlem, where Baldwin was born in 1924, "what home meant to Baldwin and what it meant for and to Baldwin to call Harlem home" (Smith 238). ... He explores Baldwin's call to the pulpit, his religious crisis, his coming to terms with his homosexuality, and his responses to the Civil Rights Movement, black nationalism, and the conflicts between Jews and blacks in Harlem (239). ...

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Crane, and Reynolds heard Richard call Pease, "Pease," instead of "Mr. ... Richard denies that he said that, which calls Reynolds a liar, also disrespectful. ... As a child, she sends him to get something from the grocery store. ...

• Word Count: 1641
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• Grade Level: High School