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    How does the stereotype in the movie Crash(2004) that all people of color are criminals come from the inequities of power which then cause the denial of flexible thinking? I will be looking specifically at Stuart Hall 's Representation Cultural Representations and signifying Practices and Michael Pickering 's Stereotyping: The Politics of The Presentation. People interacting with people of color stereotype them as criminals. When doing so the person believes they are the more superior on the…

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    inspiration of young Jewish women (Stubblefield & Keane, 1994). After the Jewish women movement begin the African American women movement begin as they the National Federation of Afro-American Women the Colored Women’s League of Washington D.C., both organization merged and formed the National Association of Colored…

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    Reaction About Niggers

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    two other scenes in the movie showed black people were hanged in the street, and it seems like this kind of situation is quite common at that time. The thing most impacted me as I watched this film is how hard Louis tried to get equal rights for colored people. He joined a group and tried to fight with inequality. They had practiced how to stand their ground when they received curl treatment, like beat and torture. But when the group leader asked Louis “what you want to say about all of this?”…

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    This novel talks about how a woman was not seen. And she went through a lot to be heard. Laila under go’s a lot id things in this novel. She was seen as a colored women, she was seen as the help but she much more than. Laila is also like the poet and writer Maya Angelou. She is a great poet both Laila and Maya are both hard working women that worked for the name they have. They wouldn’t let anything or anyone…

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    not too colored people. Acts of racial bias occur way too often and go unseen by white people because they do not experience it themselves; it is not part of their reality. When in fact, not only is racism part of reality; it is actuality; embedded deep in the structure of society and is part of every system in most institutions in the United States. Racism is not something that will ever end as long as it goes unrecognized and denied as still being an issue. The disparities between colored…

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    “The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged” (Fitzgerald 16). Colored people and immigrants had a bad reputation with the whites and how they had “stolen” people’s jobs and rights. “Another serious issue that hampered women's efforts in behalf of reform was the white racism and indifference that limited black anti-white…

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    Lower Class Families

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    The income rate for upper and lower class families is based on economic in society. The middle to upper class children have unlimited options to choose what schools they would like to go too, unlike lower class children who have very limited options and do not have the advantages of going to a university “(Rodriquez)”. Lower class family cannot afford to spend their money on high priced food, brand new vehicles, and big houses. The state-earned income tax help them a little to pay their bills,…

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    persecution for those who are different, specifically focusing on Tom Robinson because she saw how long Atticus made the jury take to come up with their decision bringing in a question of actual innocence into their thought process when before, a colored man was simply convicted just because of the color of his skin and not how well the defendant actually fought. She also describes how there are some people in this town who are working towards the same goal as Atticus, and that Atticus is doing…

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    The dilemma that Scout was presented with was unprecedented judgement towards Boo/Arthur Radley as well as colored people, she quickly learns that when she encounters evil she will not become cynical nor go along with it and let it bring her down like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Atticus gracefully reminds her that humans are very much capable of evil as well as good. Even though throughout the book Scout is quite the child she develops adult-like attributes due to experiencing evil and real…

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    In A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, the idea that guidance is needed to help people who have falling in despair and they need to regain their sense of purpose. Chipping away at ignorance is needed so that the true potential of the individual is revealed. This ignorance is caused by the submission of the portion of society to a higher power who abuses said power. Grant Wiggins in the book A Lesson Before Dying, has started to lose his purpose of staying in his little town and teaching…

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