Leo White

thesis. The author picked the best way to show the research that their thesis was correct. I think there was some bias in the way that the authors conducted research because they did not show any white women who did not have positive father influences in their lives; therefore, it made it seem that all white women come fro perfect backgrounds and they all grow up with their fathers in their lives. At the same time, the article was sure to point out that not all black women are raised with their…

Plastic Surgery: Power, Coercion, & Colonialism Cosmetic surgery has grown tremendously since it was World War II, when it was first used to help injured soldiers reconstruct their damaged bodies. Over the years, more and more people, mostly women, have been getting plastic surgery for fact that they don’t feel beautiful enough. Kathryn Pauly Morgan points to the rise of woman getting plastic surgery and how women 's bodies have become seen as a representation of how woman should look rather…

available to others of a different race. Plus a lack of respect, the daily degrading and demeanor of Blacks in the South was a challenge that gave her strength and power to change a nation. Finally, being a laborer working under constant pressures from White bosses was also taxing. Notwithstanding, Rosa Parks did not allow any of these challenges to deter her purpose. She was inspired by the many teachings of nonviolent protests she had read and heard about. Her focus was to change the…

If you were to ask an average white American today if they believe segregation between white folks and black folks still exists, the answer would most likely be no. Why would they have a reason to believe the opposite if federal fair-housing laws have been on the books since 1968? But why is it that “in a network of 100 friends, a white person, on average, has one black friend”? (Kristof 2) In the article Redlining Revisited: Mortgage Lending Patterns in Sacramento 1930–2004, Jesus Hernandez…

The recent events below have led to a series of protests over the past year but recently in the media the public has been advocating for the rights of African Americans in America based off of the neglect of the justice system for these young black men. These situations were all against young black males that had absolutely no reason to be murdered as a means to a solution. As these three situations only stand as representations of the many black male to be victimized by the police system in…

The article “Being a Good Teacher of Black Students? White Teachers and Unintentional Racism,” Nora Hyland writes about the roles of 27 White teachers in the U.S. who identified as good teachers, but held racist views against their students. The school that these teachers taught at was in the Midwestern part of the country. They participated in the reproduction of racial inequality, which can exacerbate racist effects. This article explored the idea that teachers perpetuated the “status quo” of…

Anne’s mother is part of the older generation who accepted white oppression and grew up fearing death at the hands of the whites. Yet, Anne can be seen as a part of a generation who doesn’t quite understand this violence and she refuses to live in fear of white oppression and is determined to make since of race. Thus, Anne and her mom constantly collide when Anne ask her mother questions and her mom never provides…

An Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures the strength of any given association (Weiten, 2012, p. 533).For example, an IAT that measures associations between races can show that a person pairs images of blacks with negative things and pictures of whites with positive things . Implicit attitudes are the reason that Universities feel the need to prepare its minority students for the racial tensions they will encounter; this is the reason I had to be prepared by college admission officers to deal…

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…

Americans, it was bizarre for Guitar. Guitar had been used to seeing his fellow man “scrubbing floors and picking cotton” (103-104), facing every bit of bigotry, every “job of work undone, every bill unpaid, every illness, every death [that] was The [White] Man’s fault” (107-108), not enjoying riches, beach houses, and happiness. He was confused by the notion that he could ever be…