Racism In 'Dyaspora And Crick, Crack'
As both authors indirectly argue in their essay’s “Dyaspora” and “Crick, Crack,” race is a misconception that affects our lives the minute we are brought into the world. Furthermore, an effect of race is the desire to be accepted by the dominant culture. In Hyppolite’s story, the word “Dyaspora” is used to describe scattered people living in two worlds, their place of origin and their adopted land. Though there is great beauty in people from all across the world sharing the same roots and homelands, there is also a bulging flaw of the displacement and re-placement of peoples as seen in the forming of cultural diasporas. To illustrate, once one is removed from the context, culture, and location of their roots and are displaced in “melting pot” societies — they are subject to automatic disconnection from the dominant culture as well as their own culture(s).…