Anti-miscegenation laws

Recently, we’ve seen in the media that there have been numerous stories about police brutality against African Americans. This is a reoccurring problem that has affected many people of minitories in the past and is an ongoing problem in society. Constantly, we hear about African Americans males killed on a daily basis by authorities. The importance of the Black Lives Matter movement shines the light that these murders should require punishment to officers who have killed young innocent people.…

How is Othello an exploration of institutional racism? In Othello racism played an important role throughout the play. When Othello was originally written in England things between white and black people where not where they are at today. When Othello was written it was around the time of the beginning of the slave trade in Britain, so the way people viewed African were terrible. During this time it was odd to see two people of different races together. Throughout the play Shakespeare did a…

Discriminate- make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, sex, or age. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. The story follows Scout, the tomboy daughter of lawyer Atticus Finch who is given the task to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape. During the time the story takes place, there were many racist and prejudice impressions, primarily…

intro, she describe Maycomb as boring and gray and dark. She created an atmosphere from the beginning as a tired, gothic town. Furthermore for a person who doesn’t dislike colour people, Maycomb is a terrible place to live. Since the corruption of law and justice since it all depend of the circumstance on whether if the victim is black or…

Black Lives Matter has been all over the media in recent years. Accusations of police brutality and racial profiling and has led to many riots and protesting across the country. This has caused millions of dollars in damage and disrupting the peace just to gain attention for their movement. Is the Black Lives Matter movement actually helping or is it just causing a racial divide? If you go by the facts, it 's not racial profiling that gets blacks in trouble. Cops don 't wake up and wonder how…

“Blacks are more likely to get divorced because, first they are poorer, and poverty strains marriages…” -Andrew Cherlin. During the past half century, African-Americans have become the most unmarried people in our nation. A substantial amount of evidence through using extensive research has shown that the decreasing rate for African-American marriages is an issue that is widespread throughout the country, although this particular topic isn 't the main precedence throughout society it still…

For the first mini essay, I will be focusing on the topic of ambivalence featured in Latino stardom. Ambivalence is defined as the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. In other words, Homi Babha defined ambivalence as “a feeling of “off-ness” towards something you don’t understand”. I will be pulling from Are All Latins from Manhattan? Hollywood, Ethnography, and Cultural Colonialism (Ana M. Lòpez, 1993). A problem that is featured with ambivalence in…

In the fight against racial policing, young activists have created campaigns titled #SayTheirName and #SayHerName. Under In the #SayHerName campaign, the activists have tried to spread awareness about the black victims who don’t have a voice to speak for themselves because they’re no longer here. The #SayHerName movement, another movement in connection to the #saytheirname campaign, focuses on police brutality against black women. Sandra Bland, an innocent black woman, was found dead in her…

Like One of the Family is an incredible series of monologues that, like Roxane Gay so eloquently said, encourages understanding about an underrepresented group within society-the domestic worker (xiii). Specifically looking at the female black domestic worker, Like One of the Family, asks its readers to test their assumptions about female black characters and to gain empathy for their situation in life. Unlike The Help, in which a white woman saves the day by telling the stories of the black…

After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jane Elliott wanted to teach her young students about discrimination and its effects after watching days of news commentary in where white men described black Americans as “those people” and “those communities,” as if black Americans were not a part of America. most of Elliott's 8-year-old students were like her, born and raised in a small town in Iowa, and were not exposed to black people outside of television, she felt that simply talking about…