High Modernism rationalized, regulated, structured, and reorganized South Africa into a society that restricted its non-white "citizens," while Organic Nationalism defined the people of South Africa as Afrikaners, validating the exclusion of non-whites from civil existence. ... Unlike Stalin's regime, Apartheid did not attempt to use high modernism to benefit the whole of the people of South Africa. ... In 1838, the newly established People's Assembly of the Boer Republic of Natal instituted an act that restricted blacks from areas of white settlement. ... The Group Areas Act ...

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Rap musicians in the mid-1980s began producing aggressive music against white people for their unfair treatment of black people in the area. ... The reader gets to look into the life of a black person who is truly overwhelmed by white people and the power they have; he wants power in his life over white people but he is too frightened of the power that the white people have over him. ... McKay shows that black people were forcefully taken from their home land of Africa and were turned into slaves for white people. ... The reason this piece would be censored is because white people would not ...

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People felt they could not relate to the material, since it "[did not] translate to the period.  ... Firstly, there will be a closer look on the de-factor-segregation between black and white people, then on the racial discrimination going on during the crucial phase of jury selection, and eventually the inequality of the verdicts people of different races receive. 4.1. ... " (Logan: 1-2) In the same paper, the problem is described as being multigenerational, since children of black and white people are likely to attend separate schools. ... Most white protagonists, however, are wo...

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White Americans of the slavery period specifically held this view. ... The problem that comes about, however, is that it begins to enter people's minds that it is better to be black than it is to be white. ... A white man could not claim this because no jurors would believe that an African-American would frame a white man out of racial hatred. ... There are not many people who look at white supremacy groups, such as the KKK, in a good light. Black and white people alike tend to not support, and possibly even rally against these groups. ...

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Books can correct the slant that people see on certain things in their life. ... Upon entering the religion of Islam Malcom perceived all white skinned peoples to be "the devil." It was on his first pilgrimage to Mecca when a white skinned Muslim helped make his trip to Mecca possible that Malcom X began to change his views of white skinned people. ... The girls, being white, could get in and out of people's houses without the homeowners expecting anything. ... The idea appealed to Malcom, after all, when he thought back over his life and the white people in it, he could find devilish...

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They were regarded as an alien race with peculiar customs and habits that made them unable to assimilate in a nation that wanted to remain white. ... He reminds us, "It behooves us to know and to understand" our people and our social context "that we may deal justly with ourselves and with one another". ... She argues that in general the Chinese "think and act just as the white man does, according to the impulses which control them. ... Through this comparison Sui Sin Far decanters whiteness as the standard of what is "human," a move that is in fact central too much of her work, as Annette Whi...

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When this case was brought to court, it was to a nearly all-white community without any jurors that were African American. ... Department of Justice report stated that in 1999, African Americans were 20% more likely to be stopped than white Americans, and police were more than twice as likely to search the car of an African American or Hispanic driver than a white driver. ... In a 2000 Census, the percentage of judges who were white calculate to 83.2%, 8.8% were African American, and Hispanics made up 4.5%. ... Most white judges cannot relate to many of their cases because of their prior lifes...

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Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. ... Blacks finally accepted this picture conveyed especially by the white press. ... The law, jobs, political affairs and the mass media were still controlled by the white man. ... With the help of the Christian church they managed to start a kind of non-violent revolution which finally made the white people understand the injustice of segregation, so that discrimination by law was finally abolished. ... ...

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Baldwin believed that racism stemmed from the insecurities of white men, who turned to the blacks as scapegoats for their own internal feelings of powerlessness. ... The essay Stranger in the Village has been much collected; it reported on the author's unique experience of being the first black man encountered by a small Swiss village, and it became the instrument for expressing forcefully and gently the basic premise of the racial revolution in the twentieth century: "the people who shut their eyes to reality simply in! ... The world is white no longer and it will never be white again"...

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He was a black man trying to buy a house in a predominately white neighborhood. ... 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. ... I can't even imagine what it would be like to be around people just like me all of the time. ...

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Martin Luther King, a non-white, in a quest to fight for equal rights for all Americans, delivered a speech in Washington DC in 1963 to a crowd of an estimated 250,000. ... The resulting effect has been the rise in non-white diversity population. ... The groups that seem to possess more power utilize their power for purposes of exploiting the poor people. ... The rich pay the poor people less money than they deserve so that they can make themselves more affluent. ... According to research, an estimated 40% of workers in the textile industry belong to the minority group like Blacks while only 5...

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Slaves were seen as dependent, inferior to the white race and without any civil rights. ... She passes for white. ... Her son, now called "Tom-, grows up as a white man and Tom, now called "Chambers- grows up as a slave. ... Finally I would say that Mark Twain was both influenced by the opinion of his parents, but also by the general attitude people had towards slaves in those days and especially in the South. ... This is only possible because Tom and Chambers (who passes for white) look alike. ...

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Johnson asked, "Was it sound policy to make all those colored people citizens? ... First, racism and white supremacy, for the most part, dominated Southern law. ... - Public facilities had "white" entrances and "colored" entrances (78)... - Negro barbers could not tend to white women (83)... - Trains were required to provide "white" cars and "colored" cars (84). ...

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The verdicts in these cases have been less than acceptable, and this has caused people to ask more questions about our "justice " system. These cases and the dwindling faith in our justice system have people asking if race plays a key role in the sentencing of defendants. The role of judges also has people asking if they are making the right decision when they hand out verdicts. ... In earlier times, many jurisdictions were comprised of all white decision makers (Kansul, 2005:1). ... "Few people familiar with the state of race relations in the United States today would deny that there is a...

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Key to the understanding of racial separation, as exemplified by segregation and Jim Crow laws in America and the system of apartheid in South Africa, is the understanding of race itself and the effects of categorizing people by skin color as to provide a benefit to one of the parties involved, usually the minority party. ... With respect to America and South Africa, race was created as a measure of exclusion and a platform to consolidate power among a white elite. ... This unification was evident in the creation of Jim Crow laws that allowed all white superior lining conditions despite their ...

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Black inmates now constitute roughly 38% of the nearly 2.2 million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails Bureau of justice statistics [BJS], 2007), where they are overrepresented relative to other populations. For instance, there are 3,042 black male inmates per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,261 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males, and 487 white male inmates per 100,000 white males (BJS, 2007). Today, black defendants serve as much time in federal prison for drug offenses as white defendants serve for violent offenses-a result largely attributed...

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The first being as to how this event quickly turned from cop versus man to white cop versus black man. ... The Michael Brown case was almost immediately taken from the context of cop versus suspect to black suspect versus white cop because that was the way that media distributed it to the populous of America. ... The delivery of this description almost immediately infers that the reason that Michael Brown was killed was because he was a black man being pursued by a white man. ... Media is historically known as the peoples informant, and historically media has been known to portray things in a ...

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Turner goes through this thorough description of the founding of West African Islam to communicate to the reader that the Islam of African People was different from the Islam of the Middle East and Indian subcontinent. ... Turner goes on to say that Blyden's " experience in West Africa led him to believe that what he perceived as Islam's lack of racial prejudice and doctrine of brotherhood made it a more appropriate religion for people of African descent that Christianity."(p.52) Turner argues that Blyden's work influenced Pan-Africanist to adopt Islam as a means of uniting t...

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In Hannibal, Missouri (as well as the rest of America) the romanticism of slavery and genteel white society was a charade that was best left a charade so that the civilization could operate without a catastrophic rending of the existing social fabric. ... Like so Many of Twain's protagonists, both black and white, including Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Jim, Pap, The Boss, Pudd'nhead, Tom Driscoll, Chambers and Roxy, Sam Clemens was infected with a form of racism that has been with man since the beginning of time, or since the fall of man in biblical terms. ... But though she has great ju...

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Equality can be defined as when a specific society or isolated group has identical status in political and social respects; these three factors are most important when judging equality as they have the most impact upon people's lives. ... After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Age of Reconstruction saw the introduction of Black codes in many Southern States as white officials, who had served the Confederacy, were elected to govern. ... By contrast to William Dunning, Sinclair agrees with my view that equality was hardly gained in the "de jure" and certainly not the "de fa...

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Since slavery lasted for over two hundred years it was easy for white folk to have the misconception that they weren't of the same species as humans. ... They were viewed by white folk as violent beast that must be tamed. ... People are usually in the HUB advocating for people to join their sorority, fraternity or organization and some of those organization or groups of Greek life explicitly state they are seeking African Americans, Hispanics, or Irish students. ... If I got mad over a story and was disgusted by our government's fictional actions I can definitely understand how racis...

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A December 8, 1997, edition of Sports Illustrated magazine, which I have in my bookshelf, was entitled "What Ever Happened to the White Athlete" in which it came to the conclusion that African-American athletes were dominating the sports industry because they had wider hips and other various physical differences. ...

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In short, when deciding whom to promote into management, male corporate leaders tend to select people, as much like themselves as possible - so it is no surprise that women are frequently not even considered at promotion time. ... One study found that among executives at the same level, men "managed greater numbers of people, had more freedom to hire and fire, and had more direct control of the company's assets" than women (Harlan and Weiss). ... Women of Color in Corporate Management Women of color are much more likely than white women to cite lack of a mentor/sponsor as a barrier to...

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Why a race or religion must have a singular nation-state forcibly created for it is something of a mystery; my sons are white/Asian interracial, so they have no "racial homeland"; should this be considered a crisis? ... The ethics of a problem and the urgency of a response depend not only on its absolute principle but also on the magnitude of its effects, i.e.- "how many people are currently suffering because of it?" ... But take heart; as you lay weeping in the street with your family while the soldiers destroy your house and your belongings, you can take heart in knowing that your sacrifice ...

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