One is in a room full of people and still not make human contact. ... For instance, understanding the history of white oppression of black people is essential to understand how we interact with each other today. ... I asked the men to stop and even though they did, during the next five minutes the two men and the two women complaining about "those people". ... That perhaps they had so much anger toward my whiteness. ... I could not find the proper words, so the women could understand "I am not like other white people". ...

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What causes people to struggle between two races? There are many detrimental elements that influence people, thus causing confusion in their identity and their choice between races. ... Blacks were unequal and inferior to people of lighter color: whites. ... Yet, he has at times longed for the black culture, which he refers to as his "mother's people", thus still disconnecting himself from them. Passing is destructive because he lacks a true identity and he still disconnects himself from his black heritage labeling black people as his "mother's people" and not his. ...

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We know that our society even though consists of many coloured people, still poses for mainly white people. Mot of the girls in these magazines were white and blonde. ... I have been aware that the television castes for ostly white people but i wasnt quite sure about the magazines. ... Even though when you go to most parts of Toronto you will see mostly colored people around more tan white people. ... All these people looked rich to me. ...

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They did not believe that white people and black people would get along well together. ... Many white people felt that they were naturally superior to black people because of the color of their skin. ... I have seen many sporting events in which black people have lost to white people. Another popular myth is that black people are academically inferior to white people. ... For the most part, black people now have the same opportunities as white people. ...

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"Black people have been experiencing oppression from other ethnic groups, particularity white people for centuries" (Avakian). Black people were slaves to white people; they were forced to serve them while suffering cruel and inhuman punishment. ... Black people are considered inferior to white people in America, but what about in other areas of the world? ... When Baldwin arrived at the village, he demonstrated the ideologies of how white people in Europe viewed black people. ... Baldwin lectures that black people are strangers in the white man's world. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The black people are no longer enslaved by white masters, yet they are still enslaved by their fear of freedom and progression. ... Turner offers the most potent example of how black people are susceptible to racism just as are white people. ... Turner strive for the status of the white people, but also for the "unattainable" physical characteristics. ... Likewise, it is okay for the black people to be free and prosperous because even the white people have acknowledged their right to do so. ... She does not care what people have to say about her. ...

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But the reality was something else, it was the time of reconstruction period, where the notions towards the blacks were renewing in the laws, they were to be considered as equal as any other white man, but the people of Confederacy, who were defeated by the "UNION'' in the civil war had to give up slavery, were against it and made vigilante groups such as Ku Klux Klan, which was first found in 1865. These people took the charge of killing black Americans. These people wanted to restore the white supremacy by the help of lynching. ... Therefore, we can see that, how clearly the titl...

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Because all his life he has been seeing some white people who are being discriminative and black people telling him you don't understand and you will never do. ... At first he noticed the hate stare that is used by white people. ... Plenty of people here, white and colored would knock you in the head if they thought you had money on you... Where this proves that Negroes don't misjudge white people as the white people do. ... He proves that what white people say and think about the black people is wrong because white people don't argue about the cultural and ethnic differenc...

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She did not say "us" in reference to black people she said "the negro" and that form of objectivity helped validate her argument in the eyes of white people who may be less receptive to a stronger black opinion. ... "No chivalrous white man doffed his hat in honor or respect. ... Washington was a master at contorting and twisting his message so that white people would digest his method of progression. ... Washington played on a paternal attitude that white southerners had toward black people; when he said the south is the best place for black people to enter the econ...

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Standpoint theory is the idea of the relationship between subordination and dominance and the effects on what people see or do not see. ... Birdie's standpoint is different from many, because of her racial background, mixed with both black and white, she sits on boundary of whiteness and blackness and can see both viewpoints of both races. ... When Birdie is around white people, this is when she feels the most black and when around black people she feels as though she in mostly white. Birdie becomes conscious of the white gaze and the power of the white gaze in ways that many cannot and s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From the beginning he would not subdue below the white man himself like the other black people around him did. The white people around him knew that he was different from other black men. ... White people alienated Richard from his environment because he did not accept the way of life that other black people did. ... Richard does not want to "give in" and be a slave to the white people. ... It is bad in that it sometimes gets him in trouble with white people in the South, he does not show respect for white people that they normally get. ...

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He shot three people, took the entire bar hostage, and began kerosene all over to set the place on fire. Fortunately he was stopped by two people who jumped him. ... The rest of the bar was also white. ... Or what about Ronald Taylor from Pittsburgh, who fatally shot 3 people and wounded two. ... Whether a white man kills a white, a black, or a black man kills a black or a white. ...

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Simply because he is black, many white people automatically assume he is up to no good and react accordingly. ... (Staples) The racist assumption by the white people in the building that a black man who is running must be a burglar led to ridiculously unfair results, for the office manager called security and pursued Staples through the halls, nearly to his editor's door. ... (Staples) These examples from the author's life demonstrate to me how black people must always be on the defensive, and constantly be prepared to be accused of something or be mistrusted by white p...

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The white people of South Africa kept control in many different ways. ... His grandmother, for instance, is a gardener for a rich white family. ... As a boy, Mark would help the people who could not read get the documents they needed to keep their books in order. ... By using these black people as examples the white South Africans would send the message to other countries that Apartheid was actually a good system and that blacks flourished under their rule. ... Mathabane recounts several different encounters he had with white people that had lasting effects on him. ...

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The family in the story is a white middle-class family, and they are constantly worried about the "people of another color"" who live beyond their "palace"" walls. ... The white people in South Africa would not have to live in fear of revolts if they did not try to rule over the black population. ... The white people in South Africa represent the witch of fairy tales, because they provoke the bad things that happen in the country. ... The "razor thorns"" are surrounding their home, keeping people from entering just as rose thorns surrounded the palace in "Sleeping Beauty,"" and just as the ...

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I would merely change my pigmentation and allow people to draw their own conclusions" (10). ... Some people wanted to kill John because they didn't believe in what John did and didn't like his choice. ... A majority of the people that ride the busses are blacks. ... That year, a black passenger named Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying a city law requiring that blacks give up their seats on buses when white people wanted to sit in their seats or in the same row. ... That is a lot of people per day that become victims in hate crimes. ...

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The home is owned by an old white man, Valerian, who lives in it with his young, stereotypical, and slightly prejudice white wife, Margaret, and his live-in cook and butler; an old black married couple. ... Willie has nicknames for the white people in the house as well, signifying that he does not hold them in high regards. ... These boundaries that have been created on every social and economic level are not only boundaries created between people, but they are also boundaries created within people. ... Through there affair, they are constantly fighting about Jadine's entrapment in a "...

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This relationship in turn allowed the apartheid government to have the capital backing to instigate various racist policies to further segregate the peoples of South Africa. ... In 1922 big mining capital and the Smut lead regime aliened to smash the Rand Revolt a series of violent strikes by white labor unions to prevent the removal of color bars that protected white labor (Krickler,2005,40).This instance not only brought to light the symbiotic relationship between government (who wished to crush growing labor unionism) and big capital (who wanted lower wages by replacing expensive white wo...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Jake put himself in the worst spot ever a white man defending a black man, who killed two white men. ... Threats began about blowing up his house and slowly innocent people were dying or seriously hurt. ... No one is safe; everyone has their own opinions and this opinion is what gets people in danger. ... There were people not getting the rites they deserve. ... So of course if there is a white man being prosecuted the black people will state that he's guilty and it works the same the other way. ...

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She believes having bright, beautiful, blue eyes will make people love and care for her. ... It is very easy for one to make the argument that Morrison is making social commentary on the injustice white Americans have caused black people (i.e. forcing blacks to deny their natural beauty in order to placate white expectation.) ... She has seen it lurking in the eyes of all white people. ... It does exist and is a major cause of the inferior self image of many black people. ... She looks white, or as white as a black child can get. ...

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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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Marlow feels pity for the black people that he meets because they are downtrodden and weak because of the mistreatment they are receiving from the white people. ... Marlow feels pity for the blacks and their situations but still views them as inferior to white people. Though Marlow's attitude towards black may be one of pity and of superiority, his attitude towards white people is completely different. Marlow views white people with disdain because of the way they carry themselves as people who claim to be "civilizing- the black people as they brutalize them....

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It was this experience that made him change from a placid young man to one who bristled at the word "nigger" and wouldn't take the mockery of being a "pink poodle" for the white people he lived around and with. ... He dislikes the way the "Hill Negroes" raise up their positions when in fact they can never hope to be on the same level as the white people during the time. ... He gains a certain level of respect and notoriety for dating her, relations between white women and black men were illegal then, even though he dislikes the idea of white people having mor...

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The ways people have acted and reacted to these racial injustices however, has varied. ... Apartheid called for the separation of whites, blacks, people of mixed race, and Asians in all political and social institutions. ... Over the next 27 years, Mandela became a worldwide symbol of oppressed peoples. ... During this movement, blacks were integrated into white institutions. ... However, when dealing with the affairs of its aboriginal peoples, it has been anything but fair and accepting. ...

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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 ...

• Word Count: 1892
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate