Kurdish people

Entry 1-New York University Institute for the Humanities conference Lorde agreed to attend New York University Institute for the Humanities conference, and I would say that she had high expectancy to make some form of a difference in regards to race, sexuality, class, and age. As she walked me through the forum of how the conference was going, I was a little upset. I was almost certain that a platform such as this would have been astonishing for Lorde. How was she able to stand as a confident…

supposed to free. The teachings of the bible became a way of life and helped her in dealing with her day-to-day problems. From the bible, young Rosa learned that people should stand up rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh. Also, the church helped her because she believed the church was the only legal place the black people could gather and get information without being harassed or unjustly treated so the church became their strength, refuge and haven. Furthermore,…

assistance is indeed provided, but one must seek it out. The American education system has programmed all American students that college is required and is for everyone when indeed research has proven that higher education is not for everyone. Some people are just not meant for college and would…

When the goal of these exclusionary practices is to prevent people of color from moving into white communities, black and Hispanic people frequently get clustered into undesirable, densely inhabited urban neighborhoods– also known as ghettos (Gottdiener & Hutchinson 224). It is important to note that because the real estate market is not a private…

Individually sometimes we find ourselves dealing with matters on our own rather than waiting for a group of people to act in unison which is another reason why the black community is as divided as it is today. We must understand that when we act together to reach our ultimate goal of equality and show the world that we are capable of unifying as a community for…

Reflections from Educators in the Field," Kerri Ullucci writes about there is an assumption that white teachers benefit children of color. It states that teachers who understand race, culture and their own whiteness benefit the students. However, some people believe that being White is not an automatic indicator of effectiveness in a minority dominant classroom. Teacher of all races has the potential to be successful with children of color. Sometimes White teachers hold negative views of…

Hay believed she was ‘too influenced by western culture to be sitting at the same table as these women who were much darker in colour and had been brought up with more tradition’ (Hay, n.d.). She said she almost felt embarrassed to be filmed knowing people may think badly of her as she doesn’t know anything about the language, lifestyle or the terminology that goes along with being Aboriginal. Actress Deborah Mailman had a wonderful mix of pride in her Indigenous culture and a positive influence…

Anne Moody and the Civil Rights Movement Anne Moody grew up in the South during a time of violence, oppression, segregation, and uncertainty. The 50’s and 60’s were a unique period in U.S history because it was here that African Americans were murdered, outcast and not accepted in the southern society. Struggling to understand why these things were happening and why no one was doing anything to prevent it, Anne Moody would later join the Civil Rights Movement because of racial violence, her…

When people are not exposed to what they judge they tend to place everyone into a category, thus accepting what they have been told. Implicit attitudes are associations that we make in our subconscious. An Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures the strength…

Most people would like to believe that they make their choices based on what they believe is right or wrong. For most this is an easy thing to do and most problems normally don’t make a difference to other people anyway. Sometimes it isn’t that easy such as problems like what it takes to be the man of a situation. Sometimes it works out but most of the time it does not. Most would like to believe that people always do the right thing and not based on what society thinks. Everyone has wanted one…