Denial

In Peggy McIntosh’s paper “White Privilege and Male Privilege”, Macintosh expresses that white privilege is unearned dominance that whites posses unknowingly, which gives them an advantage in society. She argues that by reviewing the denials surrounding white privilege, acknowledging white privilege’s existence, and the factors that protect these unearned advantages and dominance, we can then use these same unearned privileges to weaken the invisible privilege systems (McIntosh). Whites are…

Racism does not exist in a vacuum. It does not wield a mind of its own, nor does it act in the absence of human control. Racism is a mindless phenomenon, and people are the vehicles that drive it forward. The future of humanity rests on collective strategies designed to purge the fallacy of racism, a forlorn idea based on simple color differences. What if racial differences became a source of celebration and inclusion? Group differences should highlight man’s grandeur, not its folly. Thus,…

will combine works of literature like To Kill a Mockingbird and A Raisin in the Sun, and a social science documentary called American Denial to focus on the “Powerful” and its opposite “Powerlessness” and its effects on race. Throughout works of literature like To Kill a Mockingbird and A Raisin in the Sun, and a social science documentary called American Denial it’s clear that race highly influences your social status. The short story, A Raisin in the Sun, shows this claim perfectly. Walter…

Intersectionality “Intersectionality is those multiple intersections and crossroads in our lives that are replete with multiple social group memberships that are interconnected and interrelated. Intersectionality involves three factors and focuses on our multiple identities that intersect our life, shape our personalities, and influence us” (Lum, 2007, p.52). When considering other ISMs, sexism and classism sensitize me to the impact of oppression experienced by other individuals. As a female,…

Domestic Violence is one of the largest red flags in intimate relationships, where women specifically have difficulties of leaving their abusive partners. According to Coltrane and Adams “we live in a culture that romanticizes violence in general and relationship violence in particular, so that “being hit” is often mixed up with “being loved.” The media such as movies, songs, novels, and greeting cards continually remind individuals that belonging to (or owning) another is the height of romance…

In “Exclusion, Island Style: Citizenship Deprivation and denial in the Caribbean”, Kristy A. Belton analysis how the denial of the human right to nationality impacts people daily life. She mainly focuses on how the denial of a nationality impacts people of Haitian descent in the Caribbean. She looks specifically at the exclusion of people of Haitian descent from citizenship in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic; two democratic countries seen as the most civil liberty and political right in…

Intergenerational Sounds of Silence: Denial, Dysfunction, and Healing in David Small’s Stitches and My Life David Small’s Stitches is an acclaimed graphic memoir that reflects the intergenerational effects of denial, silence, and repression in a young boy’s life. The dysfunction of my own family goes back generations, and is inextricably linked to the ways in which my parents and their parents and their parents’ parents grew up: in a world rife with unchecked anger, manipulation and denial. As…

It uses day-to-day practices with movements easy for her to fall into, to manage the daunting idea of death that she is incapable of handling. While the repetition of everyday tasks implies her stubborn denial of her husband’s death, it also is the way she tries to process it. After arguing against the news, she says “I’ll put the kettle on for tea/I’ll wash my hair, then what,/ try to wake up from all this.” She clings onto the activities in her daily…

So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. There, long-suffering men and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as Americans. Many were brutally assaulted. One good man, a man of God, was killed. There is no cause for pride in what has happened in Selma. There is no cause for self-satisfaction in the long denial of equal rights of millions of Americans. But there is cause for hope and for faith in our democracy in what is happening here tonight.…

prevail through all the character’s problems, but also of denial. At points, not only Finny, but the other characters simply stated that their problems did not exist. By doing this, it once again, traps the unconscious fear of death beneath the defense mechanisms. The denial allows them to distance themselves from reality, detaching them. It continues to build up this false reality’s strength. Gene would often fall into this creation of denial, for it blocked out the pain that he was truly…