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and tolerance, I have become spoiled with the delights that this age and my skin color have given me, overshadowing any kind of bigotry and discrimination that still exists. Although I have seen news reports and historical re-tellings of African Americans facing prejudice, I have never seen this situation through the eyes of these victims, until I read Song of Solomon. During its first 112 pages, the novel Song of Solomon ensnares readers, such as I, into a world where men and women are…

Penny Holland Cooper is not only my mom, but also my best friend. She has many years under her belt that comes with a variety of different experiences and moments that I would like to share. She was born on June 8, 1961 at the Saint Mary’s Hospital, in Jacksonville, Florida. She weighed seven pounds one ounce and nineteen inches long. Her Dad and three brothers were there in the delivery room to welcome the beautiful sister they finally got. In my Mom’s first few years she spent her time going…

created the new colony that had a unique identity; a distinct American identity. In 1776, America declared its independence from England because they had irreconcilable difference with England due to an evolving American identity that clashed with England’s foreign policy on matters of economic ideologies, ethnic backgrounds, and lifestyle. A combination of these factors and England’s underestimation of the strength of the American identity, led to America gaining its independence in 1776, and…

The concept of stereotyping is prevalent within both Lori Baker-Sperry and Liz Grauerholz’s “The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children’s Fairytales” and in the preface to Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki’s The Black Image in the White Mind. These articles discuss how media has the capability to influence the mind of individuals with images of fairy tale’s beauty norms and with racial depictions. Popular media often creates ideals and stereotypes by using…

all be treated equally regardless of how we look on the outside, or what religion we follow. I think eventually most of all racism will die out, but there will always be some individuals who are stubborn and refuse to treat others as equals. While American has always been a mostly white country, every year more and more minorities are coming to this country, and soon enough, whites will be the minority. It has been proven that a majority of racism comes from a lack of education. There is still…

Franklin’s African American history 101 course, and in my opinion, it is also the foundation for most of the assignment the class received this semester. This theme was presented within an excises starting on the very first day of class The first assignment we were giving was called “Ball in Tube”. Each student had a scrap sheet of paper and some tape. We…

philosophers on what the self means to them. According to WEB Dubois, an American black, or other person of color, is unable to be both an American and a minority. This paper will argue that despite DuBois’ belief that a person is unable to formulate a self due to cultural differences, it is possible for a black person or other minority to have a self and succeed despite opposition from the Caucasian majority. Despite most Americans believing that we live in a post racial society, people of…

community, while her daughter cares for herself much like a latch key child. When the child enters her teen years Flor decides that her daughter, Christina, would benefit from more supervision and sets out to obtain a job as a maid in the home of an American family that will pay as much as her two jobs have. The home of her new employer is comprised of a nuclear family which includes the father, a renowned chef and his wife, the mother…

start until 1830’s. Immigration caused many mixed feelings for Americans, some saw immigration positively while others saw it negatively. This caused ideas such Nationalism and Nativism to be born. This essay will discuss the views of different Americans and how immigration impacted America from 1830-1850’s. Most of the immigrants who came to America were either Irish or German. Immigration brought many Irish to America. Many Americans did not understand why so many Irish emigrants were showing…

inequality still in this day and age. One of the largest outlets of influences in our society is the media. The media is a platform that has the ability to touch all, or most, Americans. Being as influential as it is, the media can be used to demolish racism and inequality,…