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In Manet’s Olympia, two women are featured in this piece, one unclothed white woman, lying on the bed sheet, showing her body and her black servant in white, standing behind her almost out of visibility, holding a tribute of flower. The composition of these two figures implicates racial class issues as only one female in the painting has the right to her own body. Since the black person is her maid, the white woman, Victorine Meurent, also has the control of the other woman in this painting. The…

Set in the 1960's, a movie called The Help written by Tate Taylor and Kathryn Stockett, a recent graduate from college gets a job at a newspaper company and begins writing a story that will change her life. In this time of history, it was evident racial discrimination still played a role in everyone's life. Skeeter Phelan saw the split in roles between the white and black community in which she lived, so she began writing about it. This inspiring and educational movie gives today’s generation a…

Dear: Ta-Nehisi Coates, My name is Carissa Pillay and in my English class we will be reading the play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry. We have read your article in class to give us a better understanding of what happened from the Case for Reparation, It really opened my eyes on how I saw the case for reparations. One of the quotes that was in the article that caught my eye was “So that was just one of my losses”. In this instance black people were referring to how land that was…

In content by Richard Wright called "Black Boy", Wright discusses growing up and getting out into the world and persevering through the agony from viciousness and fierceness. He experienced childhood in the Jim Crow South, which was clearly difficult being that he is dark. One thing I discovered noteworthy in Richard Wright's content was the means by which whites controlled, provoked, and physically mishandled him on the off chance that they felt that he was being rebellious…

After viewing the movie clip and reading about Standpoint Theory(Wood,J.2009), it is my opinion that individuals each have their own standpoint opinions, ideas and thoughts about how they perceive other people, in particular other social classes which I think greatly,contribute to the inequalities in our society Unfortunately, I believe this train of thought is just the way it is, in our society today. Upper and lower social classes, each have their own distinct ideas about how they perceive…

When I think back on the story of Ellen Vaden, I will remember the things that she told about the Ku Klux Klan and what they did. I will remember the fact that she doesn't remember freedom. I will remember her part. Ellen has seen a lot and experienced a lot in her 83+ years of living. Her owners were Dave and Luiza Johnson. Her mother was from Georgia and she does not know anything about who owned her father or where he was from. Her aunt bought her way out of slavery by cooking. She does not…

On the southern fringes of the Sahel desert of West Africa is one of the most extraordinary tribes on earth. They are despised by many of their neighbors and struggle to exist in such hostile environment; but for the Wadaabe nomads beauty is just as important as survival. The Wodaabe often compare themselves to birds, they move across the land almost as they please. They are beautiful like birds and just like birds of the wilderness, they put on a show to empress the women. Every year they…

In the Negro in Latin America, Harold Preece provides a narrative about the advantages whites had, and the disadvantages negroes had. Preece started off his story by telling us about the three negro men he met at Tilotson college in Austin, Texas. The talk with these three men was the highlight of Preece day. Latin America did not feel satisfied with old Jim Crow taking their main arm of defense in the Panama Canal zone. The three men lived and or worked at the Panama Canal zone. The men argued…

The dancers were dressed in traditional attire and had accents when they spoke. Simple words such as Peter became “Pe-e-taa”, water became “Woo-aa-ta.” With or without intention I feared my classmates would think that Kenya was the only country in Africa and that all African spoke and behaved as Kenyans. I feared that they would be displeased by the dancers and continue to mock me for wanting to retain my culture. As they performed I placed my head in my arms silently crying, because for the…

Black women constantly face challenges brought on by the intersectionality of racism and sexism. There is a notable rise in the amount of black women arrested for minor crimes such as parking tickets or minor offences such as cursing. Higher amounts of black women are targets of criminalization and discrimination through the intersection of racism and sexism. This paper will include the targeting of young women, but also the school to prison pipeline and the abuse of black women by sexual…