Caucasian race

suffering still counties till this day with the mass incarceration of African American males. The question that keeps coming to my mind is how can a group of people who are minorities in this country have a higher chance of being incarcerated then Caucasian who are the…

small town called Maycomb, Alabama, a man and a women are put on trial for rape. A young Caucasian young lady accused a wealthy african-american man of raping her and abusing her in her home. While reading the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the author, Harper Lee shows the power that the nineteen year old Caucasian young lady named Mayella Ewell has using three things: Class, Race, and Gender. A Caucasian nineteen year old young lady named Mayella Ewell grew up in a small town called Maycomb,…

many were victim to segregation between Caucasian and African Americans. This took place at restaurants, churches, schools, parks, and various ways of transportation. In 1890 it was a requirement for railroad companies to offer “separate but equal” travel for African Americans. “Separate but equal” was a false tactic to calm those of…

Police brutality is force by law enforcement officers that isn’t necessary for a situation. Police brutality is believed to be racist and unfair. In some situations it is believed that it happens more to African Americans, than other races. We learn about most real situations of police brutality on social media, television, and articles in the newspaper. It is so easy for our sources to exaggerate or lie in the stories they tell. We decide what we think based on what we hear or watch. Social…

variables that permit them to exceed expectations over different races in any athletic rivalry. (Unknown, article 2.7) Caucasians are more likely to hold these views; in any case, a few blacks and other racial coalitions do too. A 1991 survey in the United States showed that over more than half of the respondents concurred with the supposition that "blacks have a more regular physical capacity contrasted with individuals of different races." (Unknown, article 2.7) This is despite the fact that…

Dyad 1: Person A: Sex: male Race/Ethnicity: African American Estimated Age: 17- 20 Person B: Sex: male Race/Ethnicity: Middle Eastern Estimated Age: 17- 20 Setting: The Garden State Plaza mall. Time: 6: 30 pm Standing or sitting: standing Nature of relationship: co-workers Length of Observation in minutes: 5 minutes Frequency of Touch Person A touches Person B: 0 Person B touches Person A: 0 Smiling 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Infrequent Frequent 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Person A smiles More…

During the Great Depression, many American’s lives were affected daily based off of their race. In the Great Depression there weren’t many jobs, and the only jobs available were mostly given to Caucasian males. If any Caucasian in the South during this time favored an African American, they would be treated as if they were one. The novel is focused in a rather racist fictional town known as Maycomb Alabama. In Maycomb, African Americans are seemingly scarce and so is the respect for them. In the…

racial ancestry, African-American and Caucasian. His parents were still in high school when he was born. The young couple wanted to get married, but her father forbid such an interracial union during the late 1960’s. To this day, the adult child has not met his father or the black side of his family. “Passing” may not have been the…

The two authors, W.E.B. DuBois and Gloria Anzaldua show what double consciousness is in their writings. DuBois depicts it as more abstract while Anzaldua depicts it as a more physical location. Additionally, DuBois states that people only have two social identities while Anzaldua says that people have multiple social identities. Both authors mention how people must switch their social identities depending on the people they are around. Despite both authors writing over eighty years apart they…

When you think about progression, you think of moving on to the next level or advancing upward. There is a difference between racism and progression. Racism is the belief that all members of each race-related possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race. This leads to stereotypes, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. In the movie Crash, people make assumptions based off of the stereotypes they believe. They make…