Since race is not mentioned, people would be chosen for merit instead of any other underlying reasons. ... Adrian Piper, the author of "Higher-order Discrimination", also said that "people may express racial antipathy in their behavior without being aware of or endorsing such attitudes," meaning that people discriminate without even realizing it (Anderson). ... The most controversial argument against affirmative action is that individuals who are under-qualified are chosen over the qualified persons. ... Affirmative action allows the minority with the same qualifications to be chosen over a...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the bible it reads that "Abraham, the chosen servant of God, had his bond servants, whose condition was similar to, or worse than, that of our slaves. ... " "God, instead of teaching Abraham, his chosen servant, that it was immoral to use and buy his slaves, demanded from him the performance of certain things, which required that the relation of master and slave should be kept up, not only during Abraham's time but in all future ages.... Overall, the authors of each piece of literature all have the same goal in mind. ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Birdie has come to think of herself as having "disappeared"" when living as Jesse Goldman because she does not fit into the idea of race in society's perspective and has chosen to only identify with the race that allows her to blend in and create less conflict, this being the Caucasian race, which she seems to pass for rather than the black race. ... Author Danzy Senna shows her audience how identities of nationality and race are intersectionally and socially constructed. ... Author bell hooks had one explained that there is safety in the pretense of invisibility (hooks, 2000. p. 340), if...

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

Really, the author has figured out how to portray an incomprehensible circumstance when two persons adore one another, or they say they do, however they cannot generally be together as one due to the emotional contrast in their perspectives and impression of the world. ... Jade has chosen to forget about this history and to separate her identity from those of the other black people in her life. ...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6

There, he first met Richard Wright (an African-American author whose strong protests against racial prejudice made him one of his generation's most important spokespersons) and began his first novel, In My Father's House. ... His best selling essay collection, Nobody Knows My Name, was chosen as one of the most outstanding books of the year. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After even the skinniest of immigrants is chosen before him, Jude finds the need for another person to recognize him and his manhood and to share in the pain a racist society has burdened him with. ... The author's portrayal of the community works against white stereotypes, de-objectifying community members and displacing the dominant power structure. ...

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

Max Weber suggests that racial inequality deals with status and prestige. There are two different types of status in America; Achieved status which is a status that a person earns throughout their lifetime and ascribed status which is status that a person is born with. Status can lead to social diff...

• Word Count: 1467
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Rita Frances Dove was born August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio (Biographical Information-Rita Dove 1). Little did she know that as she grew up, she would become a nationally recognized poet. As a child Dove was always interested in literature, "...the young Dove had a particular fondness and passion fo...

• Word Count: 1934
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Toni Morrison is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her first novel, "The Bluest Eye," was published in 1970. In the book's foreword, Morrison explains her reasons for writing the novel. She states that the idea to write this novel came from her childhood friend who wished to have blue eyes. With this story, she wants to make a remark about the damage that internalized racism can do to a young girl. ...

• Word Count: 2371
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

To do so, Morrison has chosen Pecola as her thematic representative; but in other seemingly unrelated episodes and scenes about various members of the community, she reminds the reader that the individual, the personal story, reveals but on product of a larger, more complex, more diffused social and historical schema. ...

• Word Count: 2499
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography