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The book, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind”, is the true story of a teenaged African boy whose whole village is struggling with starvation and poverty. Will, the main character, is forced to drop out of school because his family couldn't pay the admissions fee. Will’s passion for learning was never wavered, for he became very intrigued by a book about creating currents of electricity. After multiple trips to the library he decided to build a windmill to make electricity for his home. Many of the…

the powerful few. Henry Reynolds’ Why Weren’t We Told? combines historical fact and autobiographical perspective to bemoan the perpetual discrimination of Australian Aboriginals that occurs as a result of latent racist tendencies enforced by the White Australian government’s education system. Similarly, Frederick Douglass’ speech What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? acts as a scathing reprimand of American history’s construction, revealing the underlying perpetuated discrimination in…

Van Krieken et al. refer to identity as “who people think they are and also how we see others” (2010, p.255). The term ‘Aboriginal’ was originally used by the British colonists, to identify the diverse tribal groups of Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Australian continent. Although the term was originally used to disempower the Indigenous peoples by way of categorisation to fit into the colonialist view, it has remained today as part of the nations legal definition and also as a term many…

Nija Burnette Professor Felix Germain African Studies 1100 9 December 2014 Growing up, many little boys wanted to be the super heroes they watched on the television. Most people can recall the ending word of the phrase: “Look! Up in the sky! It 's a bird, it 's a plane, it 's...” The most popular super hero of all time was Superman and the focus of the previous phrase. He had super strength and speed, could fly, was invulnerable, had x-ray vision, and superhuman hearing. Superman was the ideal…

The word gentrification was first coined by British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964 when she observed certain alterations in the social structure and housing markets in certain areas of inner London (Mitchell, 2012). She noticed that it begins in a small district and rapidly proceeds until all or almost all of the working class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed (Mitchell, 2012). Because gentrification is such a widespread, international phenomenon…

dressed in nothing but a grass skirt on an island that is filled with flies, to which a more sophisticated white man arrives asking to join his island after a shipwreck, to which the black man replies, “Not unless you swim back after some Flit, mistah. The flies on this island are fearful.” Edwards exclaims this advertisement to be racist and immoral, though the black man is protecting the white man from dangerous flies, making him caring rather than a “savage”. Also, this ad along with many…

theory of opportunity being merely based off of advantage or meritocracy. In a way, the lighter African American’s are an allusion of this meritocracy because they were given the opportunity to live a life that almost reflected the way of how the White Americans lived. Due to the fact that lighter African Americans were accustomed to a ‘better’ way of living the image in society was engraved by their opportunities and how they took advantage of those opportunities. In reality, darker African…

The first attempt to segregate concerts did not go as planned, whites were made to sit on top balconies, and blacks down below stage. The normal expectation of behavior in a concert, before rock music, was to sit and enjoy the music being played in a calm manner. The suggestive risque lyrics, upbeat rhythm, and gyrations showed on stage could not stop the white youth from dancing, and many would jump off from the balcony of their designated area, to join the black…

Colonization, to the white man, was the best antidote for healing the barbaric pagans of Africa, but in actuality it had worse side effects than “healing powers.” Colonization stripped the identities for the African people causing them to adapt to or accept their oppressor’s abusive ways and belittling their identities to agents of production. Paulo Freire theorizes that for the African persons to liberate their selves, they had to create their own remedies to achieve full freedom, by rejecting…

Huey reflected upon the mis-treatment in his book To Die for the People; "The police were very brutal to us even at that age" (Newton 53). Police harassment and physical abuse of Black people became part of every day life for many Blacks across the country. Although the Civil Rights movement was mainly a Southern phenomenon, the non-violent ideology and integrationist focus of the movement became according to historians Floyd W. Hayes and Francis A. C. Kiene as "sources of increasing frustration…