Critique can be seen throughout numerous readings that were read and discussed this semester. Women have critiqued other women and they have critiqued men and the patriarchic society. These themes may especially be seen in “The Declaration of Sentiments”, “Halving the Double Day”, and a chapter from Women, Race and Class. “The Declaration of Sentiments” was written primarily by Elizabeth Stanton during the first major women’s convention in Seneca Falls. This convention was conducted to discuss…
As a young woman of color raised by a single mother, there have been many instances where I’ve faced immense adversity in various places within my community. Growing up in Oklahoma there have been numerous times where I’ve been the only brown face in the room, there have been times where I’ve been the woman in the room, the only voice from a marginalized community, and so on and so forth. Being “the only” something or someone in rooms or meeting supposedly at the forefront of social change and…
extremely happy to be jumping rope whereas the adults look very concerned about something happening in the street. Without having much background information on the “revolution” that is happening around her, Jacqueline jumps in and copies her idol, Angela Davis, in raising her fist and protesting. Jacqueline felt…
Tyler Perry is an African-American writer who creates comical, Christian-based plays for his multicultural audience. He started his career creating plays; he later transitions his plays into movies using familiar celebrities, such Janet Jackson, Cassi Davis, and Wess Morgan. He also transformed his plays into TV show sitcoms, such as Meet the Browns, the Have and the Have Nots, and House of Payne. His works create awareness, discussing unrealized stereotypes and real-life experiences people live…
Kant’s conception of duty, as focused on in the ground work Metaphysics of Morals, enlightens us about the morality of the black lives matter movement. However, the concept of duty can be abstract based on apriori ideas. So we need to follow Kant, by creating a maxim and testing that maxim in the context of the categorical empirical. Racial profiling by law enforcement Nationwide is wrong and our maxim must guard against such immorality. Therefore, to uphold the universal human rights,…
however, they are able to find enough qualified African-American athletes to play sports at their colleges (Harper ). NCAA is a billion dollar industry with football and basketball accumulating most of the profits (Latner 87). According to Angela Davis, “black bodies are considered dispensable within the “free world” but as a major source of profit in the prison world.” For more than 250 years, African-American bodies has been used as a form of machinery to produce and accumulate profits…
Is It Interesting, Interesting Enough? To use Murray Davis' own premise, I will deny his assumption of what makes a theory interesting. Undoubtedly, his major point throughout the essay is that denying an old theory is a stepping stone for a new theory to becoming interesting. In other words, the concept of interesting correlates with refuting a previous theory: behaviorism was a response to psychoanalysis; cognitive a response to behaviorism; Marxism a response to industrialization. In these…
what.” (Davis et al, 2) This quote demonstrated that if they want to become doctors they have to work together. If they want to accomplish their goal, they have to help each one another. If they help one another, one could be motivated to do better, and if one gets better than the rest want starts to work hard and do even better and the cycle keeps going. “And it wasn’t social intelligence. It wasn’t good looks, physical health, and it wasn’t IQ. It was grit.” (they Key to Success?, Angela Lee)…
The population is continuously growing throughout the prisons in the United States. Davis mentions how the fastest growing groups in prisons are black females and native Americans. Since 1970, the amount of “incarcerated women in California” has doubled (684). That is the problem society faces today, that mass incarceration has affected…
precinct. The woman whose slim, attractive features, age, long brunette tresses, and deep brown eyes reminded him of his wife. So much so, that they could have been sisters. Not that you could tell from the crime-scene photo's. In those, Stephanie Davis barely resembled a human being at all, however beside it sat another, obtained from her next of kin, that had been taken two…