An uneasy power-sharing between the English-speakers and the Boers (who now called themselves Afrikaners to show their roots and love for Africa) held sway until the 1940s, when the Afrikaner National Party was able to gain a strong majority. ... The Department of Home Affairs (a government bureau) was responsible for the classification of the citizenry. ... All political rights, including voting, held by an African were restricted to the designated homeland. The idea was that black Africans would be citizens of their homeland, losing their citizenship in South Africa and any right of...

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Some of his examples of this oppression were: A black man's home could have been feasibly taken by a white man at any time, and no political office was held by a black man at the time -not even the most menial. ... Maybe seen as idealistic and over-optimistic during his time, we can see now that David Walker was a man who truly held real vision for his future. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This racial knowledge held by the white population of the time allowed these white individuals that profited economically to continue with their subjugation of the black population. ... The reason the blacks were chosen is that they were far from home and their own societies and beliefs were not present in this New World that the white people ruled. ... The power held by the white people allowed them to use institutional racism to keep the blacks under their power. ...

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Many believe that racism begins at the home. ... Some would even argue that blacks are still kind of held back, and still in the ropes of anti-freedom. ... James Byrd Jr. had just left a niece's bridal shower at his parents' house, and was trying to hitch a ride home. ...

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The story tells of Jones, and his studying days at Princeton, and then his return home to Altamaha Georgia. ... When he returned home, he takes with him this notion of equality that he had grown accustomed to in the North, but then he realizes that things are not the same back home. ... John was under the impression, one that he got when he was studying at Princeton, that he could return home and make a difference for the other African Americans in his town. When he arrived home, he was seeing things from the perspective of a white person. ... His coining of the phras...

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There are many issues that held him back from being a wholesome and fully adapted human being. ... Conley begins to live two identities: he spent his school days with children of wealthy white families and came home in the afternoon to violence and crime in a minority neighborhood. ... He was finally able to break free from the poverty of the streets that held him prisoner for most of his childhood and teen years, and finally be able to see the world from a whole new perspective. ...

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By the pass-laws all black South Africans (including Asian and people of mixed decent) had to carry a pass-book which held the information about where the persons could work, live and if she or he were even allowed to be traveling in the area they were stopped at. ... The homelands were lands selected by the government and assigned to the black people by origin (which often was inaccurate), black people had to move unwillingly away from their homes into the homelands and lost all their citizenship (and thereby all rights of involvement in the South African parliament) and had to show a passpor...

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Their homes in fact weren't in the same neighborhood, they didn't even share the same church. ... " (Lee p.118) The different races are divided and the black people were forced to make their community and homes down in the slums and down by the dump. ... Leaving Calpurnia to do any chores of her own till she had finished all of the Finch families, keeping her time at home short and with the employment she had, her poor. ... The white community held the economy of the black in their hand, practically all of them were employed by members of the white community. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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An example of how whites looked down on the blacks in hate and disgust is when, Pecola stops into the store to buy some candies, she held out her hand to give the money to the white cashier, but he "hesitates, not wanting to touch her hand", the narrator explains. ... An example of Cholly's lack of parenting knowledge was, one Saturday afternoon Cholly came home from drunk and seen Pecola standing at the sink like her mother once stood. ...

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When he claims to have gotten his act together later in the book and attempts to regain custody of his estranged son, he proceeds to abuse and beat Huck every time he returns home. ... When Huck and Jim cross paths on Jackson's Island, Huck comes to the realization that the two are alike in a variety of ways and even goes to great lengths to save Jim after he's held captive. ...

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By the end of the 19th century the term Jim Crow began to be applied to laws and customs, which effectively oppressed and disenfranchised Southern blacks. The racial class system overwhelmed Blacks with the harsh realities of stereotyping and the segregation of daily life in the Jim Crow South. Howe...

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Statements like ethos – "If I should need to move, I can pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area I can afford and which I want to live," logos – "I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a super market and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, in to a hairdressers shop and find someone who can cut my hair," as well as pathos – "I can go home from most meeting or organization I belong to feeling somewhat tied in rather than isolated, out-of-place, outnumbered, unheard, ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite all these occurences and the attitudes held the white community of the time many immigrants continued to come, still searching for that dream of a better life. These immigrants were subjected to head taxes and other legislation that made it difficult for these immigrants to lead a happy life in their new home. ...

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This was done by whitewashing away the "funk" that women of color held in order to fit into society's mold of beautiful. ... The Bluest Eye examines the home life of these children in the stories as well. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School