The White Umbrella Essay

Another article was about Black people in media production. This article was written by Zeinabu Davis. Davis speaks on her experience as a Black woman in media production that makes movies. She explains how more times than not in movies, African American people are portrayed as being the bad person, with a bad reputation, especially Black men. She explains how Black people are not included in many shows, movies, etc. Davis says that she has to tell her children not to behave like the Black…

Robinson was accused of raping and beating a white woman named Mayella Ewell. According to Mayella and her father Tom raped, beat, and then ran when he was supposedly caught by the father through the window. It’s during the trial that we see Finch showcase his understanding of equality and his colorblindness…

Since early history, slavery has existed. We start to begin to see slavery-like actions when Columbus founded the new world. He thought that the natives would be easy to take over due to their lack of religion. But the Columbian exchange was the event that introduced African American slavery when African slave owners would trade slaves for other goods. Those slaves were brought into the new world or what is today, America. Years after the thirteen colonies gained their independence from the…

brought up because Effinger discussed why blacks have dominated the basketball stage. Normally African Americans grew up with less money and basketball courts were easy to find in their neighborhoods. They didn’t have the same opportunities as wealthier white men to play other sports like hockey or golf. As much as our nation tries to make life equal for all races and classes it obviously isn’t perfect. We are able to see the flaws in our country through sports. The stereotype of Hispanics,…

Impact of Race, class, and gender in Policing and Sentencing Race, class, and gender have an effect on the outcomes of the American criminal justice system. However, whether that outcome is favorable or not depends on where each individual lies on the race, class, and gender hierarchy of the United States. Cassia Spohn writes in great detail about the effects of these three characteristics in her article “30 Years of Sentencing Reform.” Before Spohn lays out the findings of her research, she…

Inside a large hospital room in Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital of Plymouth, tear-streaked family members gathered around their bedridden and severely ill loved one, Andre Sansoucy. The darkening sky, that peeked through the narrow windows showcased that the painful day of November 28th, 2014 was coming to a close. Of those gathered were Jessica Sansoucy, A. Sansoucy’s daughter and James Mongello, her fiance. The couple had spent the last few weeks hastily planning a wedding in the hopes that A.…

The skaters of the time were of either black or white ethnicity and did not consist much of other ethnic backgrounds. Although because of the ban on skating, there was a significant loss of diverse mingling and skating with one another, however, “Mayor Street’s spokesman, Frank Keel said of the LOVE Park…

read and write shows great commitment by an African American during a time of slavery. Douglas was a slave that whose duties were to work and obey, not read and write. But, he felt a strong urge to be educated thus leading him on a search to find white people -mainly male children- to help him read and write. Douglas writes “I would bestow upon hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge” (pp.259-260). “I would tell him [boys] I could write as…

scariest part of racism in America. It would take little to provoke some white folk to commit heinous and inhuman crimes to African-Americans. This is shown in many places like the murder of Emmitt Till, an African-American from Chicago who was killed only due to whistling at a white woman. Another event that happened was the burning of the Taplin family where the family was burned in a house fire that was presumably started by some white folk that disliked them. This event left a terrible taste…

fine and dandy when it comes to racism, but we still have a long way to go. According to the Color-Blind Privilege by Charles A. Gallagher, denying race as a structural bias for inequality, we fail to recognize the privilege of Whiteness. Being a white American has some connotation of putting on our “color blind glasses” on just to say that everything is okay. We want to think there is no racism left in the…