Examples Of White Gentrification By Sherman Alexie

Have you internalized white supremacy? Internalized White Supremacy according to Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe, who wrote: “Theories and Constructs of Race” has explained what it means: “is the assumption of white superiority in intelligence, in achievement, and in the centrality in the U.S. culture by individuals who are often unaware of its powerful existence (600-601).” An example of white supremacy is Segregated public facilities were one of many tools of white supremacy, which systematically denied constitutionally guaranteed rights to African Americans during the twentieth century. Many people are uncomfortable using the term white supremacy except when discussing extreme forms of physical violence (such as lynching), cross burning, or other activities associated with the Ku Klux Klan and similar "hate" groups. In fact, white supremacy refers to an entire system designed to maintain white economic, legal, political, and social privilege. When the narrator can’t remember the older son’s name because he himself has internalized white supremacy and thinks that just because he is white so he does not need to remember the older son’s name; which just because he is white he …show more content…
The word Gentrification is a process of renovation and revival of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of an influx of more affluent residents, which results in increased property values and the displacing of lower-income families and small businesses. In “ Gentrification” a white man lives in a neighborhood with black people in it also and a black family throws out an old mattress and rats make the mattress their home. The white guy gets up extra early and takes the mattress to the dump and when he returns home a black boy calls the white guy racist towards his black family just because he threw out they 're