Mission Schools in South Africa Essay

The way that the Scottsboro trials were handled by the Alabama court system, and the repeated wrongful convictions of the defendants in the face of exonerating evidence, is a prime manifestation of the way that racism worked in the South of the Jim Crow era. Racism is possibly the biggest factor behind the accusation of rape and the mishandling of the case. At the same time however, class differences also provided a motive for some of the actions of the people involved in the case. Ruby Bates…

Kill a Mockingbird.” The book shows how life was back in the day, when racism was at its peak. My third topic is about the symbolism of the mockingbird in the novel. What it means to be considered a “mockingbird.” Nelle Harper Lee grew up in the south with her brother Edwin Lee, her sisters Alice and Louise Lee, and her father Amasa Coleman Lee. Her father taught his children to always do the right thing. According to Enotes (2009), “When Lee was 10 years old; a white woman near Monroeville…

Apartheid was governmental racism that is still deeply embedded in South African culture. Apartheid affected almost every social aspect of South African living, especially for black South Africans. It affected all facets of masculinity, femininity, and violence. As Moffett writes, “the pernicious and overtly racially ranked hierarchies endorsed and enforced during South Africa’s apartheid regime continue to have profound implications for women” (Moffett, 131). The remnants of apartheid…

For thousands of years, female, queer, trans, and intersexed bodies, especially those of color, have found themselves to be the point of contention, and as time progressed gained advocates, some more than others. These groups often find themselves marginalized when placed in the binary system of gender, which tends to ignore everything but what is considered to be a “normal male” and a “normal female”. Like race, it can be argued that the idea gender is merely a social construct intended to…

Question 4 The issue of police brutality is sickeningly present in America and highly controversial. Instead of being flooded with feelings of relief and safety upon seeing a member of the police force, people of color feel anxiety and fear. Will this police officer harass or question me with no valid reason? Will they attempt to search my body or violate me? Will they even try to kill me? Black individuals are the most prone to acts of unnecessary police violence. In chapter 5, they discuss…

How someone views themselves is what essentially makes us who we are. That is also know as an identity. These identities are followed by issues relating to these identities. Those issues are associated with identities are called identity contingencies. Claude M. Steele wrote Whistling Vivaldi and it argues how identity contingencies exist. The definition given by Steele is “This book is what my colleagues and I call identity contingencies- the things you have to deal with in a situation because…

This Wednesday we’re crushing on South Africa’s next big thing, Ludwekazi Ndlazi (24) who made it to the One Day Leader Season 4, Top 6. One day leader is a reality show that seeks the best young leaders and puts their leadership skills and abilities to the test. Ndlazi who hails from uMthatha was adopted by KZN-Durban. “I grew up in a very warm home, loving parents, who are my everything and amazing four siblings who are literally a part of me. I am naturally an introvert hence my love for…

trying to make South African the best country it can be and was slowly being demonstrated. Many lives began to change for the better due to the remodeling taking place. Africans were filled with contentment; after all the years of living in poor, unsanitary areas, things were finally turning around. Mandela not only focused on adults but made sure there were improvements on the youth by “raising money to build schools” (“Nelson Mandela Biography”). Keeping these changes in Africa starts with the…

Orwell creating the haunting dystopia of Oceania as a warning to humanity of our self-destruction, the world seemed to go blind to its recreation in South Africa. Britain colonized South Africa and created a white minority rule, just as Orwell depicts the Big Brother and the Inner Party running Oceania in 1984. Both Orwell’s Oceanic world and the South African government formed bigoted class systems with a small, minority rule to maintain their power. After power was obtained and secured, the…

Cry, The Beloved Country, a book written by Alan Paton, is a novel about a man trying to find his lost family, but all the while describing the racial injustices of South Africa. It takes place in South Africa during the times of the apartheid, and shows many examples of just how bad the racial segregation was. This book was very enlightening in the aspect of racial injustice by showing how it affects the lives of the ones being discriminated. This book was split into three different…