Because of their skin color and a law called the Jim Crow laws, blacks were told they were inferior to the whites in all ways, including the color of their skin, English accents, intelligence, morality, and civilized behavior. ... Although American are always protest against discrimination for decades, many of them still trying to escape from their identity as regard to color of their skin, and appearance. People using hair straighteners and skin-lightening creams, they attempt to look white without consciously realizing they are doing so. ... Pop singer Michael Jackson's features chang...

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They represent a natural black woman instead of a commercialized black woman who has been brainwashed by European ideology that claims that black hair must be straightened, or black skin must be lightened in order to be heard. ...

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If you didn't escape early on into the forest to be Cimarron, you had to be slave." 3(Barnet, 40) Slaves often faced terrible treatment for minor misconduct, "many of the horrors of punishment during slavery."4 (Barnet, 39) In order to provide with more evident mistreatment of Africans, Montejo describes the cruel and inhuman treatment toward bonded people, "the most common type of punishment was whipping whips were also made of hemp from any old branch in the woods it sung like the dickens and tore skin into little strips."5(Barnet 40) In order to escape from the difficult lives they ha...

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It seems as though Equiano observes the trade as a pitiless and immoral life for the slave, although he finds that this life can be lightened and helped with the presence of a pleasant master. ... As he was now contained as prisoner of slavery, which he now saw could become the result of any creature that possessed any color skin not white. ...

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