We have also critiqued culture and history in these terms, articulating at least some of the consequences of such constructed oppositions and exclusions. 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). ...

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American history has been, in essence, a huge struggle for those very principles. ... America has made a history of fighting for the right to have every principle of freedom a part of each person's daily life, in fact, it was the idea of freedom that resulted in the founding of the nation. ... eclaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. ... Throughout American history African Americans had been enslaved and mistreated, thought not to be men but property. ... Throughout early American history women had few rights. ...

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Affirmative action is the nation's most ambitious attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. ... Bakke held that the Constitution forbids public universities and other government agencies to use rigid racial quotas but does not forbid the use of race as a "factor- among others. ... Trouble is, the Constitution is not supposed to split the difference. ... At this point in our nation's history, does affirmative action make things better or worse? ...

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Thurgood Marshall is one of the most inspirational men in civil rights history to date. ... There is nothing in the history of his race, nothing in his individual character, nothing in his achievements past nor his promise for the future, which entitles him to stand side by side with the white man at the ballot box We must repeal and modify the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. ... He was too big to corporally punish, so the principle would force him to read the constitution and memorize it. ... Thurgood Marshall is one of the most well known figures in the histo...

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• That the Constitution, as originally written and intended, is the finest system of government ever conceived by man. ... History of the Ku Klux Klan "All That We've Learned From History... Is That We Don't Learn From History- People can learn from history, but many don't, can't, or would rather just forget about it and move on with their own ways. ...

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The history of voting rights law in this country demonstrates that the political protections offered by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution allow some deference to Blacks to help them elect their candidates of choice in various arenas. ...

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Although he never saw a presidency, King, Jr. did lead one of the strongest movements in American history which helped shape today's society. ... In America, it was written in the US Constitution that only white men obtained the right to vote. If black citizens wanted to vote, they were required to take a literacy test and a Constitution test. ...

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Our history is a contradiction; a nation based on freedom once did not give all people the right to live freely. ... A People and a Nation, A History of the United States, vol 2. ... The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which were intended to protect black voting rights. ... In the history of black suffrage many famous Civil Rights events and protest tactics were battled. ... The struggles of African Americans were both treacherous and overbearing at times, and even though they still have problems today blacks have made tremendous progress and have left an inde...

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When conducting research in American history, people will realize the amount substantial evidence demonstrating the mistreatment of black people in the United States. ... The country viewed the blacks' citizenship as three/fifths; "the Three-fifths Compromise of the US Constitution allowed a state to count three fifths of each Black person in determining political representation in the House within the government" (Historic). ... According to history, black people have been living in oppression to other races; he wants us to realize that there is no reason for allowing people wh...

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Focusing primarily on a Miami region but definitely not limited to within this document, the Civil Rights of African Americans has been a painfully long and hardly enduring struggle in the United States history. ... It became evident that history would really have to wait before out reactive society and government ever become proactive. ... Collins, who was committed to imprinting his mark in Miami's history, vivaciously struggled to keep his constituency and still make some changes. ... On May 17, 1954, the Court declared unanimously that the segregation of public-school students solel...

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In the United States Slavery was of some of the most brutal and suppressive recorded in history. ... Slaves were thought of as sub human and were expressedly written into the constitution as such but only done so to appease the rural souths representation of population in congress. In the history of the U.S. there was little record of slave revolt or any type of organized slave body. ... These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The United States has had a long history of racial discrimination dating back to it'...

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Slavery and the American Experience More than any other history of race relations in America, the struggle between white and black Americans is by the far the most complex and long standing. Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Af...

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I also conversed with a Professor of American History, Clayborne Carson, who is also the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. ... It was the biggest civil right demonstration in history, and for the first time, white and black Americans stood together as one nation. ...

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Even after African-Americans gained their freedom from slavery after the end of the Civil War, they still faced a strong racial prejudice from the majority of white people throughout the nation, since the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution only outlawed slavery, but did not provide equal rights and citizenship's to African-Americans. ... Jazz has a complex history because it has African, European, and even Caribbean roots. ...

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During the course of world history acts of racism and discrimination were inflicted on people of different races for various reasons. ... "Under the Constitution the Negro is a citizen and of course we know and accept that but he can never expect to receive the same educational and social privileges with the white man he doesn't expect them. ... Negroes have been some of the greatest fighters in history. ...

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Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. Today we know t...

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The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. ... This paper will serve as a bridge between the two main arguments in the respective books and compare and contrast the lessons found within their text to the ideology of some of the most affluent civil rights leaders in world history. ... Similarly, in The New Jim Crow, Alexander examined the racial differences during the period in American history often titled as the war on drugs. ... When the American Revolution ended, the Constitution was drafted. ... Ther...

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Throughout the history of the country, America has been considered a fairly racist union. ... On MTV, there has been only two white rap singers in the history of the channel, and one of them, Vanilla Ice, is the subject of constant ridicule by black rap fans and performers. ...

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Never before and again in the history of the Harlem Renaissance, so many leading figures of this period came together to write for the rights of the black population in America. ... Another step backwards in the history of human rights for blacks was reached, when the erosion of the rights they had achieved under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the Reconstruction Acts were denied by the southern government. Amendments to the Constitution Article XIV ( adopted in 1868) Section 1. ...

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While Whites looked back proudly on their achievements in history and culture, Blacks were denied their identity. Their kingdoms and complex societies were ignored in the white man's interpretation of history, there were few publications about their culture and history. ... The constitution which promised that all men are created equal" was made only for Whites. ...

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The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. Fundamental to the understanding of these differing stances is the reasoning behind the driving forces of these doctrines and how they may or may not have ...

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