The loyalty, the big-toothy grin, the bellowing laughter, and the maternal love was just a big act that Mammies were forced to put on to please the white slave owners. ... She is a bigger African American woman. ... However, Mary Lou is first a little worried about Ivy, but quickly blows it off and states that she'll be just fine. ... A male Mammy is an African American man that dresses up to look like an exaggerated overweight African American woman and make themselves look "Mammy-like." This is seen in the characters Madea in the Tyler Perry films, Rasputia in Eddie Murphy's fi...

• Word Count: 2170
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: High School

The Montgomery busboy cut was started by Rosa Parks an NAACP activist that decided not to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery. ... As a result of Rosa parks not giving up her seat on the bus for a white man, Martin Luther King was elected to lead the Montgomery bus boycott by fellow members of the NAACP. ... However the impact that he made didn't cause a turning point in the civil rights movement, as there were other factors like the little rock movement, that arguably made a bigger impact towards discrimination towards black Americans and getting the civil rights act p...

• Word Count: 1288
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A man who befriends her takes Beloved off somewhere to hide her. ... The big question for me would be if Beloved herself really existed when she came back into Sethe's life and were her two sons truly ghosts? ... Beloved is a child who suffers a little mental-retardation from lack of oxygen to the brain. ... When Denver went looking for a job, she didn't hesitate to ask a white man for directions. ... A man, I believe his name was Paul, came in and out of the picture to lend some support. ...

• Word Count: 1629
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• Grade Level: High School

Then the movement took place when Rosa Parks wouldn't give up her seat to a white man on a bus. ... King had a dream that little black boys and girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and girls. ... A big problem with racism is many live in racist conditions and don't even see it. ... Superiority is a big part of racism. ... Police got the call of a dead body and the man's torso was found first, right arm second. ...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

After someone is labeled a felon, they lose rights to public housing, and it gets really hard for them to find jobs, which is why according to Michelle Alexander, seventy percent of the people who go to jail are right back inside within three months. (78) The prison industrial complex is a new term for slavery, because many companies make millions of dollars daily off having jails so populated and the more populated jails get, the bigger their pockets become. ... If Whites are just as likely to break drug related laws as African Americans, how is it possible that an African American man is 30%...

• Word Count: 1422
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book follows the story of a mean and ignorant white man who falsely accuses an innocent black man of raping his daughter, purely to uphold his own family's values in the community as racists. The laws and culture of the Jim Crow South make it possible for a jury to have full confidence that although a black man is innocent, he will still get convicted. ... Bob Ewell's morals are erroneous, and he is a mean and lowly man, but racism was something he believes in, and he is willing to stand by it, no matter the odds. ... Cal is taking a big risk by taking Jem and Scout to her churc...

• Word Count: 1682
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The time setting of the play is just before the big thrust of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the early 1950's. ... She describes her dream house that she bought as a "three bedrooms "nice big one for [Walter] and Ruth. ... Instead, the family, consisting of four adults and one child, live in a two-bedroom apartment with little sunlight coming through the window. ... He says: "But you've got to admit that a man, right or wrong, has the right to want to have the neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way. ...

• Word Count: 1609
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Men may face racism from some of the same things, a women may not be attracted to a man because of his skin color or of his weight. And a man may also receive racism because of his body structure. ... The little amount that I learned in school about racism was that it was when you picked on someone because of the color of their skin. ... "Only rarely will a man go beyond acknowledging that women are disadvantaged to acknowledging that men have unearned advantage". ... www.apa.org/pi/oema/wcarplenary.html Racism is not a big thing to me; it does not affect me in my every day life. ...

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Hughes" father left when he was just over a year old and had very little contact with Hughes until he was in his late teens. ... The society that Hughes was raised in was already hard for a black man to succeed in, add to that the fact that Hughes was without his father and it was nearly impossible. ... Hughes writes of the father "If ever I cursed my white old man / I take my curses back" (Hughes Lines 3-4), in saying this Hughes is forgiving his own father for being gone when he was a child. ... Hughes displays the inequalities in the forth stanza where he writes "My old man died in a fin...

• Word Count: 1893
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But then he turnes it around with a segment about the man previusly known as the president of america, Mr. ... He point's out a problem and then presents us, the reader with solution to that particular problem, an example racism, though you're not a racist you still adhere to it by just saying a racist joke, not meant to harm anyone or belitle them, but just have a laugh, but when you tell that joke althiough you're not a racist you hold open the rift between the white and the black man, though you personally believe that white people are created equall to black people, the joke...

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Another warn from another Negro man is "If you walk past an alley, walk out in the middle of the street. ... That was sufficient reason for them to deny me those rights and freedoms without which life loses its significance and becomes a matter of little more than animal survival"(111-112), as Griffin explained how they judged him on his skin color. ... But the Negroes know that but they just are afraid to keep facing the whites, because they don't to cause bigger and bigger problems. ...

• Word Count: 2270
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• Grade Level: High School

"For example, a man who sells insurance earns at an average $777 per week, compared to a women selling the same insurance for the same amount of hours who makes an average of $453. When a supervisory position becomes available, the man looks better qualified, more valuable on paper, simply because he earns higher wages. ... The thing was to get black people the samre opportunities that all other people had one of, which was the right to work, and be something other than a maid or a shoeshine man. ... Well it's the same in the big kids clubs too. ... Many times support groups also make...

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A single mother knew there was little help to be found and the child would be hard pressed for a descent upbringing socially and economically speaking. ... Armand had changed to a kinder man after his marriage and the birth of his son and it may have been the only time in his life he was truly happy. ... Madame Valmonde noticed the baby's mixed ancestry immediately when she went for a visit, exclaiming out loud at first sight of him "this is not the baby-(2), Desiree thought she was referring to how big the baby had grown. ...

• Word Count: 1926
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" Historically there have been many people and organizations that have stood up against racial profiling despite the fact that so little progress has been made. ... This is a cycle that has personal and societal costs and is both symptomatic and symbolic of bigger issues at the crossroads of race and the criminal justice system. ...

• Word Count: 1975
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate