Millions and millions of people, in cities or towns, on streets or street corners, in buildings or vehicles, not one of them the same. ... Black, white, yellow, purple, green-- judging people by their skin tone, or acute features, its all a part of racial profiling. ... Yet, as slavery diminished, the same feelings were established into our culture, and to this day, are still in it. ... Look at our parents generation. ... I"m not saying all whites will, after years of hard work, finally get their dream home in Jamaica, But what I am saying is there's a crack in our system, and in our cult...

• Word Count: 786
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The research will focus on, in the The Bluest Eye, the themes of the white standard of beauty, rejection, and the skin tone hierarchy. ... Toni Morrison wrote this novel in 1970, when racial tensions were high and the model of white beauty was accepted as the norm, but even now in today society we can see that it still applies to our culture. ... The narrator tells us, in the novel's only concrete description of Pecola's facial features, that "her teeth are good, and at least her nose is not big and flat like some of those who were thought so cute-(Morrison 40) And then we see o...

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

Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mockingbird soon settled into an easy soft spoken racist mindset. This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Sc...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The story is set in Lorain, Ohio, the town where Morrison was born in and grew up in. ... One reason why she wrote "The Bluest Eye" is because someone would actually be apologetic about the fact that their skin tone was different than other kids. ... We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.... It exposes our tendency at times to equate race and class. ...

• Word Count: 1083
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This led her to become "a professional lecturer for the abolitionist movement and was supported by various anti-slavery societies as she traveled from town to town, lecturing and reading her poems" (Bloom, 66). ... His lightest words has been a tone Of music round her heart, Their lives a streamlet blent in one-- Oh, Father! ... "Jamie's Puzzle" There was grief within our household Because of a vacant chair. Our mother, so loved and precious, No longer was sitting there. Our hearts grew heavy with sorrow, Our eyes with tears were blind, And little Jamie was wondering, W...

• Word Count: 2134
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Near six o"clock on the evening of January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born somewhere near the town of Cairo in Grady County in southern Georgia" (Rampersad 10). ... Race will not just be a huge factor in sports, but in every aspect of our society. ... Are our beliefs in twenty-first century America still so archaic that we cannot hire a person with a skin tone other than white or someone other than European descent to coach our professional and collegiate sports teams? ...

• Word Count: 1632
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Well's father was also a race man in Mississippi who refused to be intimidated by the politics of his town. ... (1-21, w&w) CHAPTER 2 The first line in the poem ("you may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies") refers to the way that attitudes towards African-Americans have been embedded within our nation's history. ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School