Because African Americans knew they were subject of their own circumstance and that white society constructed and maintained that unjust circumstance, the black population feared the white race. ... White society attempted to suppress Bigger Thomas and anyone like him. ... The white folks got everything- (355). ... It seems more fantastic that all of the people around him are not. ... His crime of violence is as much the crime of the people around him, who stifled his soul and nourished the other, baser side of him that was the only way he had of self-expression. ...

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The idea of pure white people and culture was one of the major socioculutral themes to blossom on the American continent. ... Americans so strongly accepted the myth of white superiority because it comforted those whites that might on occasion be smitten with moral doubts about slavery and the exploitation of indigenous peoples. ... This belief stated that they had a Manifest Destiny to take over these "lesser" people, if in fact they could be called people at all. ... The need for assurance in innate white superiority was so great that the people of that time would debunk any ideas that co...

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So when the duke and the dauphin come to dupe such people at their low point for their own selfish wants, well of course the spectacle would make anybody cynical. The spectacle illustrates just how unsympathetic, immoral, dangerous, and utterly terrible people can be, so much so that it makes Huck overwhelmingly disappointed and embarrassed to the point of being "ashamed " of his own kind of people. Not coincidentally, too, the con men duping these people are white. ... The scam has surely confounded Huck's idea of white "goodness," creating a gray area between the black-white paradigm:...

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All the white men want parts of Africa. ... When the white people came they attempted to convert the Umuofia people to Christianity. ... " The "white paper" refers to the white men's paper or the Bible. ... There were no white men in the villages. After and during European colonization on Africa, more white men were present ,and they disrespected and treated the African people very harshly. ...

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Scout is exposed to hatred and racism to colored people as she grows up in Maycomb. ... As she gets older and wiser, she comes to the conclusion that the colored men are just like white men and that the world is unfair to colored people. ... Deprivation didn't stop there, as in Baltimore the colored folk were not allowed to live near white people, "No black person could occupy a home on a block where more than half the people were white;" (The Editorial Board). Even when the colored families can afford to live in the same neighborhood as white people if the majority of the occ...

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Also, the people who would benefit from the reparations would have to prove their ancestor/s was owned by a white person rather than by his/her African captor. If the slave was owned by a white person, it would be necessary for there to be proof that the white person was an American rather than a white immigrant. ... Not only would descendents of Union soldiers feel enough had been sacrificed, but descendents of white people who were not in the military and promoted the abolishment of slavery would feel the same way. ... The people who agree reparations should be paid many times become raci...

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Henry owned a globe when many people believed the world was flat. ... The former slaves subjugated the indigenous Mande, Kwa, and Mel people in the same manner that white colonists later did. ... Apartheid The British granted South Africa independence in 1910, but gave power only to white people. In 1948, the National Party gained office in an election where only white people were allowed to vote. ... The Population Registration act classified the people asBantu (black Africans), coloured (people of mixed race), white (the descendants of the Boers), and Asian (Indian and Pakistani im...

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Segregation of people has been around for thousands of years, and yet humans are only now coming to solve this enormous problem. ... In 1948, racial segregation, known as apartheid, took control of South Africa, substantially limiting the rights of colored peoples. Black Africans suffered the most discrimination and the wrath of the ruling white elite, barely having any political rights and kept from the same privileges as the white citizens. ... However, in the major centers of South Africa, apartheid is essentially non-existent, with an increase of the colored people's rights. ... This ...

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The crowd was peaceful and non-violent, however the people at the front of the massive crowd were constantly being pushed forwards as a result of the thousands of people behind them trying to see what was happening up front. ... "I do not know how many people were shot. ... The other militant group, "Poqo" exercised violent tactics, targeting white civilians and police. ... This new form of protest put the white governments of South Africa under a great deal of pressure. ... Prior to March 21st 1960, the oppressive white governments were confident in their control of South Africa. ...

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Wheatley cites in her poetry other people that were also famous for their fights for freedom. ... Through these lines, Phillis writes that Africans are good people and that through Christianity they will be welcomed into Heaven with God, where all people despite their ethnicity are created equal. ... She knew that white Americans wanted nothing to do with abolishing slavery and therefore did not even want to listen to her argue for its cause. ... As an African American woman slave, Wheatley had to read only what was thoughtfully handed down to her by white Americans. ... In addition, the di...

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They are also meant to stir up a moral feeling for the slave, and if successful in doing so, to prove that slave laws are immoral and inhuman - this would "convince the people of the Free States what Slavery really is"(Jacobs XIV ), and would contribute to its abolishment. Humanity was denied from the black slaves in order to justify white ownership over them, and treating slaves inhumanly convinced the white owner that slaves were inhuman. ... Even if the father was white, by the "one drop rule" the child was considered to be black and thus "followed the condition of the mother"(Douglass 3...

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Who were these people? ... The general perception of the white slave traders and owners due to African men having a number of wives was that there could be no ties of family. ... With the power to heal or to make ill or they were both revered and feared by white and black alike. The whites feared these people because of their strong influence over the slaves and tried everything they could think of to abolish the "heathen" ritual punishing anyone they found practicing, however, the Obeah remained an influential figure in African slave life. ... During these years" black and white mixed, with b...

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He presents them as people who have no names or language. ... He calls it as a "prehistoric earth," peopled by a "prehistoric man." ... In contrast, Heart of Darkness falls heavily on the white man's opinion on colonialism. ... The two novels imply the domination of the white over the black. ... Ironically, Africans, who provide the ivory taken by the white traders, live in abject poverty and humiliation, while the white live in extreme luxury. ...

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"The white man came to Africa with Bibles and rifles... The white man in hip hop? ... Can white folk be lyricists? ... This is how greed comes into their lives and people get caught up. ... It is from the people, for the people and by the people. ...

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The use of the term "boy", which implies the bottom of social hierarchy, shows that black African men are perceived to be inferior and forced to be obedient to the white settlers. ... Likewise, in Joys of Motherhood, Cordelia states that "men here are too busy being white men's servants to be men" (Emecheta 51). ... He has faith that educated young people have the power to liberate themselves from their oppressors. ... This diminishing of optimism becomes evident when Njoroge listened to one of his peers, Karanja, excitedly delineate the deception of the white police f...

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It is an issue that affects everyone, and people have to realize that women are stronger, smarter and involved with the world much more than they were a half a century ago. The controversy with this issue however, is that many people don't believe that women belong in high-powered positions. ... Men only do 20 to 30 percent of the housework, and this is the expectation of many people on society today. ... White women earn about 75% of what white men earn, and Black and Hispanic women earn 86% of what Black and Hispanic men earn. ... Women have a lower chance of climbing the ladder than a ...

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Some people died from all this beatings, or from grief, illness, and exhaustion. ... Many diseases spread that killed these poor people along this six-week or more journey. ... She led so many people from that hell and into the "Promise Land." ... Thomas Garret, a white Quaker in Delaware, was an organizer of the Underground Railroad and a stationmaster who sheltered some 2,700 runaways. ... Elijah Lovejoy, a white abolitionist, published an anti-slavery newspaper in Illinois. ...

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Since storytellers or griots focus mainly on the history of their people ancestors are usually the principal subjects of a particular chronicle of the past (Stuckey, 14). ... Suddenly the people in the ring start to scream and spin and run around as if possessed and this continues until the "spirit" leaves them. ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical traditions. Black and white spirituals share many tunes and texts; blacks and whites mingled at camp meetings, and musical influences probably traveled both ways. ...

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Imperialism is one of these key themes, believed by Europeans to be the solution to the "White Man's Burden-. ... Rather, they had to hide their ineptitude behind the shimmery veil of philanthropy and the "White Man's Burden-. ... (Adelman 28) Marlow is one of the few people in the novel to realize the truth of this statement, the only other being Kurtz. ... Kieran puts it, Africa in this period became very truly a Dark Continent, but its darkness was one the invaders brought with the, the somber shadow of the white man'."" (Hampson Xi) In Conrad's novel, Kurtz is the som...

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With its depiction of the white hero in the midst of dark peril amongst savages, film sends a clear and Euro-centric message. ... From early silent films still depicting the British hero of 19th century novels, to early Americanized white heroes such as Humphrey Bogart in "African Queen", to the modern day action epic, evolution and has been slow in coming. ... Rarely is the same effort made to establish not only an understanding, but also a loyalty to the native people that populate the story. ... "The Ghost and the Darkness", despite its more humanitarian attempts than...

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It emerged as a historical movement in the nineteenth century, rooted in the ambition of different peoples for self-determination. ... It was believed that the white Europeans were superior to the black, brown and yellow people of Africa and Asia. Because of this, imperialism was seen as a moral duty where it was the "white man's burden" to civilize those who lived in the territories the Europeans claimed. ...

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It was white quartz, perfect as the day it was made. ... In this passage one of these objects is presented, the white quartz arrowhead. ... Elijah tried to persuade people to turn to the one true God, or they would be punished. ... ""People were always ready for tomorrow. ...

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Africans owned other Africans from different tribes, and people from all races, including whites, were enslaved. ... For example, Bedouins were considered brown or olive, Arabs described themselves as black, and Persians as red or white (Gomez 2005, 45). ... In addition to literature, influential people used similar descriptions for blacks. ... Free blacks, who had left their struggling conditions in some of Spain's poorer towns, explored North America alongside white conquistadors (Gomez 2005, 63). ... Many people could not bare the smell of these ships even after slav...

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Economically and culturally these systems ravaged Africa and its people while simultaneously empowering the European colonizers. ... When the African people revolted European states extinguished them in order to keep authority because of the greed (McCarty, 2011, p. 99). In the present day crisis, people point to this dominance of the West and exploitation of Africa, as part of the despairing economic gap. ... Although, there was a time when Caucasians were also enslaved, religious and cultural forces began to challenge the idea of white slavery, and then lead to the justification of slaver...

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In order to justify their oppression of the black majority population, the white imperialists created a grossly distorted history that denied African civilization and culture. ... The government rationalized that the exquisite art and surviving architecture of the Shona and Bantu people of South Africa and Zimbabwe were actually the creations of Arabs, Phoenicians, or other non-African peoples. ... Thus, Nok people created sculptures from terra-cotta figures of animals and humans. ... Ife is the sacred city of the Yoruba people. The Yoruba people created idealistic art - many of the figu...

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