Carrie White

isn’t true about all black women but it’s a tough label to break free of. Black people have accomplished so much, but we have a long way to go. People will begin to change their perspectives, but we have to stop living up to the stereotypes. The white man is not to blame for everything. We as a people have got to do…

was even far much beyond ordinary civil rights campaigning and founded itself on a particular well thought out about programs that he strongly believed and trusted. It led to the complete black race emancipation from the dominion and suppression by white people. This was exceptional when compared to his major rivals in the United States. According to Garvey, the black man was generally black people who were oppressed basing on racial grounds. He further went to say that any emancipation program…

African-American leader that was born into slavery and later became the voice of the black population after the Civil War. Washington won the wide support from the black community in the South as well as the support of the liberal white, especially wealthy Northern whites. His lifetime goal was to end the disenfranchisement the majority of African-Americans in the South. In 1895, Booker T. Washington delivered his famous “Atlanta Compromise”…

The topic that will be discussed in this paper is the mass incarceration of African American males in the United States. However, before we can address the problem of the mass incarceration among African American males one needs to understand that mass incarceration is happening across the board for all groups in the United States. According to an article by Jim Webb, the US is only 5 percent of the world’s population but, this country now holds almost 25 percent of the worlds reported…

word in the dictionary broaden his vocabulary. However, as he continued on with his studies, Malcolm gained knowledge about his people and the hardship that they faced for many years. This new founded knowledge and information lead his dislike in the white American. It, also, became an eye opener for him. He states, “ I never will forget how shocked I was when I began reading about slavery’s total horror.” (Seagull, p.282) Further, in the essay, Malcolm explains to his readers that a self…

“Hairitage” What is the relevance of Black Women and their hair? “I am not my hair, I am not this skin, I am not your expectations, no I am not my hair, I am not this skin ,I am a soul that lives within.” All women can relate, when it comes to hair, it doesn’t matter your race or ethnicity; every woman has a battle with her hair. These battles can range from deciding on a color or cringing at the thought of just getting a trim. Visually, Black women’s hair is thicker, curlier, and frizzier…

Systemic Racism: United States Divided Does racism still exist? Yes, racism is alive and well. And can be found in the form of systemic racism. Despite laws existing to make racism illegal, racism never ended, it just evolved in a way where African Americans don’t even realize that it is very present in their day-to-day lives. The United States legal system is practicing systemic racism to perpetuate racism and oppress minority races by giving unequal sentencing for the same crime, racial…

How many times have we been given those few opportunities in hosting cultural productions (as it relates to our race/ethnicity) only when it appeals to the white/Western gaze? Why is it that mental health and abuse services promote universalized and de-politicized ideas about the roots of our problems, as if they are not entrenched in institutions and power relations? How come the labor force values only those…

Discrimination is a prevalent issue in society that has decreased over time, but is still occurring. It can be found in more subtle ways than in the past when Whites had their own water fountain to drink out of and Blacks were forced to sit in the back of the bus. The movie, Crash, depicts the prejudice that is present in modern day society. The characters show how people of different races and social classes interact with one another. The stereotypes about the different races are evidently…

heard that her children would be “broke in” to slave life. This meant many hard lessons learned usually be the end of a whip. She did all of her hiding and planning right under Dr. Flint’s nose. Jacobs took refuge in her friends help. She stayed at a white woman’s house in a closet, a swamp, and the biggest achievement of them all— her grandmothers shed. While doing this, Dr. Flint lived in the same town and often visited her grandmothers house asking for news about Harriet. Little did he know…