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Slavery Reparations: A Call For Justice The supreme court of 1980 ordered the federal government to pay Native American Tribes $122 million dollars to compensate for the slaughter and illegal seizure of tribal lands in 1877; Shortly after, the congress of 1988 then consented to the payment of $1.2 billion dollars to Japanese-American citizens who had been held captive at the prison camps during WW2 (Costly, Andrew). African Americans haven’t been compensated for their enslavement until recently,…

Annotated Bibliography Cunningham, M. D. (2014). No Getting around the Black. Cinema Journal, 53(4), 140-146 This article discusses racism in the United States and its effect on the black media. According to the article, black filmmakers are not comfortable with catering their films to the black community. Cunningham believes that black filmmakers feel as if they have to make their films “universal” while white filmmakers target the black community and make a profit off of it. This article…

do not allow these women to be able to grow. African American women are affected by these stereotypes in the way they see themselves and how that affects the way they identify with being African American and a woman. Wilkins wrote in her article, "Black women grapple with controlling images in their daily lives, using them to make sense of their own experiences and identities" (Wilkins 175).These controlling images that Wilkins described influence the stereotypes that African Americans women are…

Peter Pan, the story of adventure and fantasy, has been remade several times and made into multiple spin-offs in the past century of the film industry. The fictional story features a magical boy with flying abilities taking three children of London to Neverland. There, they encounter mythical creatures and the evil Captain Hook while also learning that growing up is a necessity. Also in their journey, they meet Tiger Lily. The daughter of a Chief Native, she works alongside Peter Pan to defeat…

Too Hard to Believe: The New Jim Crow:Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness The New Jim Crow would be the other word that describes the part of time where many African American people did not have their rights and were living a life that made them feel like they are nothing. The New Jim Crow has been known between everyone because of its importance to our lives. Michelle Alexander who is an associate professor of law at the Ohio State University, a civil right advocate and a writer,…

The Civil War and its resulting Amendments 13th through 15th to be enforced through the Reconstruction all failed to due resistance by the white majority. Ensuring the segregation of white and black Americans was how white America made its feelings known, and so while black Americans were now free, they were not free to access all public places and spaces, including schools, public transportation, entertainment venues, parks, fountains and beaches. If one looks up the history of Jim Crow, it…

During slavery and far beyond its end, Americans racial ideologies were used to sustain the white races position, and even scientists in general (Ferraro, and Andreatta, 2015, p. 308). White Americans saw blacks as unteachable, simple beasts, regardless of the fact that their treatment of slaves, and the restrictions they placed upon them were constructions meant to keep them from learning more than was necessary to do the work expected of them. However, one cannot help but learn, even when…

The myth of Persephone is an interesting one, especially when considering how the original myth has influenced many modern novels that have been written in todays’ century. Certain aspects of the myth, such as Persephone falling in love with Hades, and the affects Persephone’s being in the underworld has on her mother are being rewritten in new ways and incorporate in popular novels such as the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyers. This paper will look at the Twilight Sega and how the myth of…

Becoming an immigrant in another countries children faces numerous difficulties. The problem arises when identical backgrounds became a question. Continues clashes round the world have prompted to yearly acceleration in the quantity of individuals living in outcast condition. When a child is raised with a different cultural background to the one he/she is living in, he/she may face problems with language, isolation and prejudice. Firstly, it is not a great surprise that children who are growing…

among African Americans and how it has become a huge concern yet it is still stigmatized in the black community. Mental health is not restricted to one particular race, ethnicity, socio-economic background but cultural background and historical history can cause depression to be expressed and deal with differently especially among both black males and females. Depression is vastly misunderstood in the black community and often confused as emotional angst. Education about depression and…