Nordic race

Physical Acts of Power Hollywood films often portray various American ideologies that can be seen through the nation, empire, and domesticity. These ideologies can be considered to be representations of the history of the United States or the current state. Through the examination of Andrea Smith’s “Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy,” Clyde Woods’ “Les Miserables of New Orleans,” Dylan Rodriguez’s “Forced Passages,” and the film Glory, it is clear that the state maintains power…

Remember when you were growing up and you were growing up and your older sibling would be able to go out and you would be stuck in the house because you were younger? This is privilege because your parents felt that you were not mature enough so your sibling was able to benefit from your parents actions. There are many ways that privilege can be defined based on gender, age, ethnicity, and economic status. ( Example) . But what does privilege really mean? Throughout the rest of this essay we…

Language is a system of words that humans use to communicate and get their message heard. Deborah Tannen, Scott Russel Sanders, and Langston Hughes bring mention that the greatest influence to a person’s perspective is language. In “’Bossy’ Is More Than a Word to Women”, Deborah Tannen recognizes that the word bossy is a common word used to negatively describe women; sending them the message that exercising authority deems them unlikable by various organizations. Conversely, Scott Russel Sanders…

One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” (George Balch, “The Pledge of Allegiance”) is a line read with a hand proudly placed on one 's heart. As a child in elementary school each morning we had to pledge our allegiance to the flag with those very words. As an adult, I see now those words were said and are continually said with no merit or truth to stand behind it. We are not indivisible, there is no liberty, and there is not justice for all because black America is left out…

In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Beautiful Struggle, he speaks on the experiences he faced throughout his childhood. Ta-Nehisi was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, which is a predominately Black community. Growing up Ta-Nehisi witnessed and was faced with many street challenges such as, violence, gangs and drugs that were too advanced for him to handle. His father, Paul Coates, worked hard to transition Ta-Nehisi from a naïve boy into a strong and…

stretches the race card far beyond its boundaries while listening to songs that glorify the word “nigga” and encourage crimes among lower income black men in particular, and the really sad part to me is that they just don’t see it. They don’t seem to notice the endless opportunities available for anyone with hard work, not the correct skin color. We live in a nation with constitutional amendments and various laws in place to provide equal opportunities for anyone regardless of race and or…

First, I will discuss where I was raised and how this reflects how I define and consume race and racism in Canada. In this paragraph I will discuss how my personal experience of being raised in a white dominated community relates to terms such as: post colonialism, collective consciousness, assimilation policy and whiteness. By discussing my personal experience and relating it back to these concepts I will get a better sense of how racism is shaped in the area I grew up in. To begin, I was…

Annotated Bibliography Cunningham, M. D. (2014). No Getting around the Black. Cinema Journal, 53(4), 140-146 This article discusses racism in the United States and its effect on the black media. According to the article, black filmmakers are not comfortable with catering their films to the black community. Cunningham believes that black filmmakers feel as if they have to make their films “universal” while white filmmakers target the black community and make a profit off of it. This article…

Race and gender stereotypes can especially help form opinions and biases for societal norms. For African American women, these stereotypes can have severe consequences on the identities of these women. Thomas, Hacker, and Hoxka quoted Stevens’s study from…

White privilege helps with white supremacy. It has created a divide among races since the lives and ideas of white people are see as better than any other races ideas. So because of this divide black culture is seen as “ghetto” and “trashy”. Another example of white privilege can be seen the police force and criminal justice system. African americans and white sell…