Double-consciousness has a direct negative affect on identity of African American people. ... The people who believe that Americans should no longer divide themselves up into subgroups believe that it is no longer important to differentiate between the original nationality of the people and their current citizenship. ... African Americans could identify with the indigenous peoples from any colonized country in the question of identity. ... Others may choose to physically move in order to be able to move on with their lives and make a new home where they can decide what and how they will identi...

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Taking strides forward to move away from it's connotations of the late 19th and early 20th century, that black people were uneducated and almost sub-human. ... Written in what is meant to be Toomers poetic voice, it is a summation of what Alexander thought Toomer's creative discourse was trying to unpack: 'I did not wish to "rise above" or "move beyond" my race. ... Kabnis is separated from his hometown of Washington, in the same way he is separated from his own people who are black and from the south. Fear is the emotion that runs his life, this is beca...

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It thought that it was stupid because white people don't really discriminate against black people anymore, and they have just as much freedom and opportunity as Caucasians. ... The landlord does not rent to people who earn more than $18,000 a year. ... They are the ones that don't get to know people that are different than them. ... Once a black family moved into a house on Kinloch grounds, all of the white families around them began to leave the city (Wright 7-9). ... As more whites left the city, more blacks moved in. ...

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We really start to understand how racist Old Dudley is when the black neighbor moves in next door to him. Dudley is angry at the fact that this black person would have the audacity to move in next to him. ... " "Judgment Day" is a story about a man named Tanner who moved to New York. ... It is clear that Tanner's outlook on black people is outdated. ... As before O'Connor almost makes them seem like it is okay to talk to people like that. ...

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Today, American music represents people who would have never dreamed of being heard or taken seriously even as little fifty or sixty years ago. ... (Cooper, 569-573) However, the African was a slave, not really counted as a citizen; his ideas were not to be taken seriously by most white people. ... From 1811 to 1815, he made the first attempt to establish a black American colony in Africa, transporting several dozen people there. ... The community survived for a short time, but soon racism forced Singleton and his people to look elsewhere. ... He moved to Chicago and started Muslim Temple Numb...

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Whites assumed that they were better than black people and didn't want to be around them in anything they did. ... When she was told to move to the back of the bus, she refused to budge. ... He refused to move, so the national guard was called in to restore order and admit Jones and Hood to the University of Alabama. ... With this great amount of people, there is naturally much tension between the many groups. ... He says that because of black feelings of inferiority, people have exaggerated the level of racism on some campuses and that blacks should try to move on with their lives ...

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Books can correct the slant that people see on certain things in their life. ... Books help people to understand something they have never understood before. ... Growing up in Michigan, where his family moved after he was born, was an experience for Malcom. ... With his hopes and dreams shattered Malcom decided to move to Boston to live with his half sister Ella. ... Eventually he moved to Harlem away from his sister in Boston. ...

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Thurgoods father was very light skinned and blue-eyed black man that could have very well passed if he had wanted to, but the Marshalls" were very rich in self-pride and the struggle of their people. ... By May 30th, 1909, The Members of the Brotherhood of Liberty, a group of black Baltimore activists, got over a thousand people in New York together to meet. A year later the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed. ... At the age of two the Marshall family moved to Harlem. About 1910, Harlem was beginning to gain hosts of different types of black people, different...

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Until his expulsion he has lived with the - later abandoned - illusion that by receiving education and exercising humility towards whites he will be able to "help shape the destiny of [the black] people" (31). ... In this speech it is also well depicted how the protagonist practices humility and subservience towards whites as it contains exactly, "what such people of the time typically wanted and expected to hear" (Sten: 93). ... With innocent optimism he moves up to the urban North where he has to discover Bledsoe's phoniness. ... And "as he moves from innocence ...

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People say it helps them identify with their roots and their culture. ... So why do people identify themselves as one thing or another and American? ... By the definitions written above, culture is built on the abstract things that motivate and move people in a society. ... However if these culture industries convince people that what they are offering is what culture is supposed to be, than it will become the culture people accept. ... Many colored people call themselves African American. ...

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As time passed, however, many people began to change their views on race relations in America. ... Not only were blacks free, they were becoming accepted as people in our society. ... Suddenly, however, some people began to lose sight of the mission they set out to accomplish. ... Rock and roll music was formerly made up of only whites, but gradually African-Americans moved into that genre of music. ... Many people even believe that it is proper to do this type of "an eye for an eye" action. ...

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Immediately following the civil war, Black codes created a list of crimes punishable only when committed by black people. ... The same walls of rasicm those keep people of color in prison, after all, also keep us out of college. ... Imprisonment has become the response of first resort too far too many of the social problems that burden people who are ensconced in poverty. ... And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people from poor, immigrant, and racially marginalized community has literally become big business. ... Vast numbers of handcuffed and shackled people are moved across ...

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People that suffer from depression may not feel hopeful, happy about life or anything dealing with life's ups or downs. ... This is not just a mood that one gets in; this is an imbalance in neurotransmitters (chemical in the brain) (Starling 4). 12 million people in the United States experience clinical depression. ... She is supposed to take shortcomings and move around them. ...

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The only people who seemed to think she was beautiful with nappy hair and large hips, thighs, and buttocks were the boys who lived in the area. ... Janice did everything she could to imitate the white people in her community to feel like she was a part of something more than the negative stereotypes surrounding her community. ... Janice felt a strong hatred for white people and she wanted them to know. ...

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"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.... People find it no surprise that the Jim Crow system arose after slavery. However, it is astonishing that people do not believe that the political and social dynamics that purport to color blindness would create a new caste system- the one all Americans live in today. ... The Civil Rights Movement and the Poor Peoples Movements success led to the passing of comprehensive civil rights legislation. ...

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Second, "the crime and delinquency rates of incarceration, and rates of arrest and of victimization of those who move away from these slums are indistinguishable from whites of the same social class."13 This fact suggests that socioeconomic factors are very important in the existence of crime. ...

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Many white people do not like to hear this fact and refuse to believe it, but the truth is deeply embedded within our society's political framework. ... The main argument that he presented is that the jail is a system in control by the white man and is used to maintain the people in society who may be dangerous or threatening but also poor. This special population of people almost entirely means the black man who occupies the majority of all poor urban areas nationwide. ... This lead individuals to believe that slavery was good for the slaves, and good for the American people as a whole (...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. ...

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