Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ... She does not feel the need to aspire to this unattainable physical image. ... The physical image of a white headed buzzard symbolizes Jody's metaphoric white head. ... Turner, like all other believers had built an altar to the unattainable - Caucasian characteristics for all" (216). ... Turner str...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"We study the biological characteristics of different human populations, our relations with our relatives-the apes and monkeys, and the evolutionary history of our species" (MacEachern 34). ... " The characteristics of people from different parts of the world that we have come to know, we have mostly gained through the media, such as what we see on television, magazines, and newspapers. ... It is discrimination against a group of people because an inherited characteristic they have, like skin color, makes them inferior to their oppressors. ... Without race, there wouldn't b...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Immediately, we see this characteristic as a hint for racial distinction, but on what grounds exactly? ... This finding sets up the approach by white readers to interpret negative characteristics as a black quality. ... This interaction seems to be a depiction of more appealing characteristics attributed to the black culture. ... We then must look into whether the characters are choosing racial identity based on the recollection of their mothers in Maggie, or the inclination to ascribe negative characteristics to another race. ... Our unconscious minds are ingrained with arbitrary physical ch...

• Word Count: 1383
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Merriam Webster Dictionary Online defines caricature as, "An exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion or parts or characteristics" ("Caricature"). ... Their personalities, characteristics, and physicality were terribly exaggerated for the white people's enjoyment. ... She closely resembles a mammy in both her personality as well as her physicality. ... Not only do they physically represent the Mammy stereotype, they also characteristically represent the stereotype by being overly sassy, in some ways m...

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

With no history and all various physical attributes of people in one place would race exist? In Achieving Our Humanity, written by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, "Buffon, for example, classified races geographically, using principally physical characteristics as indices. But since he believed that there was a common, homogenous human origin, Buffon attributed the differences in bodily characteristics to environmental factors." (Eze 102) If the origin of the people have a different bodily characteristics to begin with, then what of race? ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In addition to these personal characteristics, Emile also reveals the intimacy and the intense struggle of his community. ... However negative Anne-Marie may appear to be, she also reveals some positive characteristics about herself. ... Regardless of the physical conditions that she is forced to endure, Anne-Marie goes to Aunt Fe, bearing gifts. ...

• Word Count: 1382
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

How do the economic texts on slavery differ from the narratives on slavery, and why is it important to analyse this? In the introduction to his book Did Slavery Pay? (1971: xii), a collection of readings on the economic effects of slavery, Hugh G. J. Aitken discusses what we can learn from thes...

• Word Count: 1309
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

The description of the "cast iron bank" that IM finally notices in the corner is rich in providing evidence of the physical characteristics of the bank: "black, red-lipped Negro, whose white eyes stared at me, with an enormous grin.... He develops an extreme hatred for it and becomes offended by the similar characteristics of the bank to him. ...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8

In order to understand the main idea of developmental contextualism, one must have a firm understanding of the situation in which a relationship between an individual and their physical and social environment takes place. ... The main idea behind the Microsystem is that it is a pattern of activities, roles and interpersonal relations experienced by the developing person in a given settings with particular physical and material characteristics (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). ...

• Word Count: 2352
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their physical differences were described in terms more attributed to beats than humans. ... Instead of attributing the Indians with human characteristics, the scientists totally ignored the fact that the "savages" may have created the art, so the question of who the mound builders were occupied the attention of professional archaeologists and other scholars for years. ...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It becomes easier to understand why many felt that slavery should remain in tact through Robert Higgs quote of Senator Stephen Douglas saying "There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. ... This is evident in a variety of areas including intelligence, performance on tasks or tests, and the possession of desirable characteristics or personality traits. ...

• Word Count: 1706
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, the section marked autumn, which is characteristic of harvesting and reaping the results of spring planting, is the section of the novel where we are introduced to the Breedlove Family reaping a harvest from the seeds of racism, poverty, anger, etc described in the spring section (James 10). ... There are many themes arranging from, black family life, black community, religion, and physical abuse. ...

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

The blacks felt encumbered by what the whites thought of as religious norms, and were discouraged to fully adopt Christianity when they couldn't even speak in church, a common give-and-take characteristic among traditional African worship.18 The inability for most blacks to disassociate the messenger with the message, like blacks such as Frederick Douglas were able to do, prevented them from fully accepting Christianity and created resentment towards whites and their religion.19 This antipathy is illustrated in a letter from a freed slave to his master, dealing with the effect that the ...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate