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    Apartheid originated from the Dutch word that means separation. Separation here means separation of the Dutch people (white) with a native African (black). Apartheid later grown into a political policy and become an official South African Government which consists of programs and regulations that aim to preserve racial segregation. Structurally, Apartheid was a policy to maintain the dominance of the white minority over the majority of non-white through community arrangements in the field of…

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    What Was Apartheid? Apartheid was a system of racial segregation that was enforced by the legislation of the National Party (NP) in South Africa between 1948 and 1994. The laws during Apartheid greatly benefited the White and Afrikaner minority. The movements of the majority black inhabitants and other ethnic groups were oppressed by the government. The Apartheid legislation classified inhabitants into four racial groups – “White”, “Black”, “Coloured” and “Indian – and residential areas were…

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    Apartheid vs. Ingsoc “George Orwell’s 1984 is the expression of a mood, and it is a warning” (Fromm 313). Despite Orwell creating the haunting dystopia of Oceania as a warning to humanity of our self-destruction, the world seemed to go blind to its recreation in South Africa. Britain colonized South Africa and created a white minority rule, just as Orwell depicts the Big Brother and the Inner Party running Oceania in 1984. Both Orwell’s Oceanic world and the South African government formed…

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    Bourgois titled the chapter "Violating Apartheid" because the majority of the population that lives in El Barrio are Latinos and African Americans. A few mechanisms that Bourgois describes are: the poor and dangerous Latino and African American neighborhoods, the police, and the lack of "cultural capital". The poor Latino and African American neighborhoods are seen as too dangerous by the middle and upper- class citizens, which keeps the poor citizens secluded. Society has put a label on them,…

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    American Apartheid Systematic racism exists in different realms, affecting one or more races and impacting their lives with a focus on minorities , which overall mostly correlates with class. While I am not saying blacks are the only groups that can be a target of racism, I will say it's harder for a colored, or black person to hide their race in order to free themselves from the social and economic stigmas that it holds. One can imagine a wealthy business person and a poor homeless man and…

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    United States and the Apartheid in Africa are two major events in history that changed the lives of blacks around the world and have so much in common. For the countries to be so far apart you would not think that, the separation with blacks and whites would exist especially in Africa where the predominant race is black.There are many similarities and differences in both of these events and there are still some changes needed to this date. The civil rights movement and the apartheid both changed…

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    American Apartheid, by Denton and Massey as well as The New Urban Sociology, by Gottdiener, Hutchison, and Ryan examine the immense influence residential segregation has on urban poverty. The intersection of race and class issues is essential to understand because blacks are represented more in the underclass and are more likely to be in the underclass. Race struggles effect certain economic struggles and vice versa. For example, class often effects the resources and individual has access to,…

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    into action? This happened in South Africa when Apartheid was put into place. it caused some to leave the country, but some stayed and they protested lawfully by continuing to stay in the country and live as normal lives as they can and eventually caused apartheid to fall this is important because it shows that oppression can be “beaten” without becoming violent against the oppressor. Trevor Noah's mother is a good example of how she caused apartheid to backfire this is shown in the book when…

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    for the extended essay will include different primary and secondary sources about apartheid and different ways Desmond Tutu tried to utilize Christian values to undermine apartheid. Different speeches from Desmond Tutu will be for this paper and these speeches helped change the minds of individuals. Verses from the Bible will also be used to show what extent Desmond Tutu referred to the morals of Christ to apartheid in South Africa. From using these different strategies, I will connect the…

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    With the success of the ecumenical movement in South Africa, one hopes the same pressure can be applied to the current apartheid arising in the United States. As addressed by Douglas Massey in his 1990 book American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass, the United States since 1970 has witnessed a dramatic increase in poverty along racial lines. The primary locations of poverty are occurring in segregated cities. After the Jim Crow laws ended in the 1960’s, blacks all around…

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