We use profiles of people to describe them. ... In America middle and lower class white people make the trends, but if you look at some of the main parts that make up pop culture, it is cool to be black. ... Only two white people have successfully infiltrated Hip Hop culture, Vanilla Ice did it back in the early 90's and Eminem (Marshall Mathers) is doing it now. ... Black and White shows the stereotype of how all black rappers are looked at as gangsters and bad people by society, but it also shows how white people are starting to look at it being cool to be black. ... Part of the scen...

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White people, especially white men have always seen themselves as "saviors" bound by a moral intuition that it is there duty to go and save the "savage" races of the world. ... White people have always made it there priority to dominant people of color. ... When ever non-whites complain about something wrong in the system they are seen as divisive and traitors to the established norms of white people. ... Peggy McIntosh's essay outlines some the privileges of white people that people of color, namely Blacks have known for years. ... McIntosh talks of White peoples unwillingness to confron...

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Morrison portrays their everyday struggles and in doing so exposes white ignorance of black culture and ways of life. ... Davis writes that, "Blacks are visible to white culture only insofar as they fit its frame of reference and serve its needs (Davis 218)." ... This problem of lack of recognition by white society is further complicated by the nature of society, which is based on power relations. ... The bargeman's immediate conclusion that Chicken Little was drowned by the boy's parents as well as his reflections on the cursed black people and the burden of their rehabilitation tha...

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This is most likely how the self-imposed stereotype of "acting white" has come along. It can be clearly seen that it would be quite difficult to "act white" because people of Caucasian descent act in all kinds of different ways, with optimistic and pessimistic attitudes, in different characters and stereotypes of their own. ... In order to "act white" it must first be found out what it means to "act black" and evaluate the two to see if "acting white" does actually exist. ... The same thing can be said about "acting white" and how all white people as a whole, truly behave. ... Because of th...

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A major influence on the ex-colored man was his white friend. ... Now why do you want to throw your life away amidst the poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle of the black people of the Unites States?"... His idea to pass as a white man in society worked. ... Was he white or was he black? ... The society looked at him as if he were white physically. ...

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Sandra Day O'Connor Supreme Court Justice White Female Ms. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Supreme Court Justice White Female Mr. ... In my opinion it is people like this, with lists like hers, that continue the racial and gender divide. ... Besides, who ever labeled music as black or white anyway? ... I do not know the percentage of black to white. ...

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The only history that was discussed was that of white Americans. ... It was based on what was viewed as an acceptable white household. ... MTV's show "The Real World" consists of young people, selected from all over the country, living together for half a year. ... This show is very popular because today people are interested in seeing how people's different cultures compare to others. ... People of all races, not just African Americans, listen to it. ...

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Still a young man, he was befriended by abolitionists and made a life working to make people aware of the injustices of slavery. ... His education opened the door to the white culture, but his skin color prevented him from realizing the privileges that white people enjoyed. ... There were no white people that wished to acquire the slave culture, to experience the horrors and injustices that Douglass had suffered through. On the other hand, there were many Blacks that wished to become part of the white culture, seeing the many benefits that white people enjoyed. ... Douglass and Jacobs are ...

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It sits above all black people and establishes the distinction between white and black. ... To attend this school is to be above the less fortunate people. ... Because of the white over black democracy in the hierarchy, he too was placed above black people. ... Also the college is placed on a hill above Harlem to show superiority over the black people. The Y in this poem signifies the poor housing that black people have to endure. ...

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In society white elephants can be seen in different ways. ... The white elephant represents the unborn child and is seen differently by both parents. ... This seems like an unusual stance to take but Banks wanted to make it clear that his point was not about women or men but about the races of these two people, and he did want you to sympathize with the minority who was the man. "Black Man and White Woman- unlike "Hills like White Elephants" contains a lot of physical descriptions about the characters. Banks makes it clear from the beginning that the man is black and that the woman is whit...

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Richard's writings in "Black Boy" are a collection of his alienation from white society and from his own people. ... "If you sell them you just helpng the white people kill you"(p131) Having black people sell papers that promote killing and hatred against them shows that white people do not care about black people just as long as they can get rid of them by any means.Richard was later on hired by a white family who offered to feed him breakfast and dinner." i cat eat this...the food is not even clean!" ... Richard was a victim of white peoples racist arrogance, just as he was also a vict...

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Minstrel shows were musical acts performed by white performers involving various skits and performances depicting negative conceptions of black people. 'Blackface', the term that was used to identify the white performers who donned black face paint to characterize black people were highly prevalent during that time period. ... With the notion of Hip-hop becoming a popular cultural phenomenon, Eminem leads the way as a representative for white people, especially aspiring white Hip-hop artists, to appropriate the music as their culture too. ... White people using black music and cultu...

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(Lipsitz 2) In his book, "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics," George Lipsitz argues that it is in the best interest of white Americans to "invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with resources, power, and opportunity." ... His actions forced my first confrontations with the possessive investment in whiteness "a poisonous system of privilege that pits people against each other and prevents the creation of common ground. Exposing, analyzing, and eradicating this pathology is an obligation that we all share,...

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However, such issues as the relationship between the Harlem Renaissance and mainstream American culture, especially the relationship between African-American literature and white American culture and how white people have influenced the Harlem Renaissance have not been explored into. ... The white and black people's relationship's influences of the Harlem Renaissance, and the positives white people's responses advanced the development of the Harlem Renaissance. ... He was an American civil rights activist who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. .....

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There was a white George Town law school student who reported that black students are not as qualified as white students. ... When people speak of racism they hold a greater meaning to the word then how it is perceived. Although, the dictionary definition does give some insight to the understanding of what people really do mean. ... Since the only logical explanation for non- white failure is white racism, white society stands accused of virtually every problem concerning crime, welfare, or drugs. Failure and misbehavior by non- whites is proof enough that white society is riddled with hat...

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Black is generally considered more sinister and dirty whereas white represents innocence and purity. Shakespeare isn't afraid to hold back and exploit the complexity of the terms black and white within Othello. ... Interestingly enough, Othello is put on a pedestal by the Venetian people and its militant system despite being black. They see him as possessing the positive virtuous qualities that only fair people do. ... Whether it was intentional or not, Shakespeare must have challenged people's perceptions and views of both interracial relationships and black people. ...

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Should White People Be Killed? ... White people have far too much of a stake in maintaining their supremacy. ... So I am forced to conclude that white people should, and have to be killed to accomplish liberation. ... From a psychological perspective, white people must certainly be exterminated. ... While I acknowledge that white people can engage in this kind of anti-racist surgery, I also recognize that the masses of white people will not. ...

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White and black are 2 different things and think differently. A White kid sees a lawyer being a successful person making money. Because they know people that are lawyers and that's what they want to grow up to be. A black kid thinks a drug dealer successful since he is making bank and has these nice things that white people has, as a car. ... IF a black kid saw the same thing a white sees almost everyday of his life, black ids would be better off. ...

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In the educational system you are molded to believe that white is right and everyone and everything not white is wrong. ... Differences between people, in regards to skin color, head shape, and body shape have been used to aid oppression by "white" folks. ... During the 19th century white Europeans had come to the point that money equaled power and in turn gave them the right to enslave people that were unlike them. ... In the European "helping" way these people were taken from their families so that white hands did not get blackened by the dirt. The differences that the Europeans saw in these...

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I visited White Castle and McDonalds. I visited the White Castle restaurant around 6 in the afternoon. ... The type of people that went to White Castle also had a big impact on what went on during my visit. There were primarily black mothers with three of four children and an occasional few white people. ... It also seemed like there was a majority of white people at this restaurant. ...

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After the war, Kipling wrote his famous poem as a sort of message to the United States, urging America to take up the burden of its newly-acquired Philippines, but also warning the powerful nation not to expect a warm or receptive welcome from the Filipino people, if and when it chose to impose white values upon them. The White Man's Burden begins "Take up the White Man's burden – Send forth the best ye breed" (Kipling, 1899, 1-2). True to Euro-centric form, Kipling's first two lines scream of racism, as the poet asserts the genetic superiority of white people...

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The narrator, decides to pass for white after numerous variations between assuming his status as a black man who wants to stand for the rights of black people and adopting the identity of a white man. ... Therefore, the Ex-Colored Man would hardly be treated as a black boy, if it were not for him and for people around him being told that he is not white. After this moment of revelation and before he decides to pass for white, the narrator acquires a new vision of the situation of black people in the United States. ... This with the situation of black people contributes to the narrator's ...

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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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Stupid White Men by Michael Moore " Insert own title " I can't stop reffering stupid white men to people. ... Stupid white men is an excellent boook. ... He point's out a problem and then presents us, the reader with solution to that particular problem, an example racism, though you're not a racist you still adhere to it by just saying a racist joke, not meant to harm anyone or belitle them, but just have a laugh, but when you tell that joke althiough you're not a racist you hold open the rift between the white and the black man, though you personally believe that whi...

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This book was written because a white man wanted to find out why black people were being oppressed and discriminated against. ... White people were discriminating against blacks without cause or just. ... Griffin explains to him, he would know the reason why blacks are more notoriously known for sex than white is because whites left sexuality to be one of the few forms black people had of expressing themselves. Most of every encounter between the whites and blacks, with the exception of a few, think similarly about black people and that's another one of the reasons why this book ...

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