Person of color

Race is an enduring controversy, remaining prevalent in literature and culture over many centuries. Recent events like Ferguson confirm the reality that racism still exists, and that it is not an old, outdated phenomenon. From the landmark Sacco and Vanzetti Trial to the shooting of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, society has consistently seen racial profiling and values of nativism affect human decision making and behavior. William Shakespeare’s play Othello is no…

Diversity Lack of diversity in colleges can sometimes be a problem. For some people college may be the first opportunity they have ever had to communicate with others from different backgrounds. It can also be a way for students to understand one another and embrace the differences of others. Diversity does not only include the different race, ethnicity, religion, or physical appearance. Diversity includes all the aspects that make us who we are today, like our beliefs about philosophy,…

Immigrants worked for cheaper wages and did much harder work. American wages were much higher than the ones that the factory workers paid the immigrants.The colored people were blamed for everything because they were a different race than every other person. They were the scapegoat for everything that went wrong and not the way people expected it to. Being the minority in the 1920s was comparable to being a Jew in Nazi…

Being a person of color myself, I found the articles we had to read very interesting. I had honestly never thought of being a white person as something as being over privileged as one of the article mentions. T was very refreshing to see so many different perspectives on racism. I especially likes the number of points McIntosh brought up had never even occurred to me. Especially the point where she brought up that she would never have to speak for all people in her racial group (McIntosh). She…

alcohol and tobacco, and live with higher rates of violent crime” (259). Evidently, segregation in neighborhoods has negatively impacted those of color, who are most notably black. In particular, neighborhood segregation has affected my family when my parents first arrived in America. For them, they lived in an area that was predominately people of color. The neighborhood was near Chinatown, but there was a mix other ethnicities such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Latinos, and African Americans. Even…

reading the excerpt taken from “Up from Slavery” which was written by Booker T. Washington in 1901. I have learned about some of Booker T. Washington’s obstacles and journey on his travels to become an educated man of color during his times. Booker T. Washington was a man of color, which was a son of a slave that was. Booker T. Washington was willing to do what was needed in order to survive on his trip. Booker T. Washington was determined to make his journey worth his dedication. He was…

Knowing certain societal constructs and expectations can be a major burden on every individual within that society. In Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” we see a young girl named Pecola Breedlove struggling with her community’s beauty standards, causing her to consistently beg for blue eyes. While the poem “Much Madness is divinest Sense” by Emily Dickinson shows that while the majority who follow all of the “rules” may be the truly be the ones that are mad, the ones who go against the grain are…

magazines I have read I feel that people of color are held to a white standard of beauty. In the past I have read a magazine in which they had whitewashed the darker skinned individuals to look whiter, this is a prime example of people of color being held to a white standard of beauty. This is extremely detrimental to people of color for it makes them believe that there is something wrong with the color of their skin. Another example of this is when people of color have weaves that drastically…

history. The theme of color versus black and white, for instance, makes us remanence about the segregation of colored people the United States and in the civil rights. This movie didn’t show African Americans, because they were portraying and old conservative show that were made by white men. But the riots happening in Pleasantville against the people of color, seem to resemble the riots that happened in the United States against the African Americans by the KKK. The theme of color also seems to…

certain women of a certain class do. Thus, it reinforces inequality between women even more. We are tearing each other down while others succeed. Friedan’s treatments of these groups mirror what mainstream society at large still neglects, people of color and lower class working women. How can society praise a white middle class educated white woman, and not recognize the efforts of a hard working uneducated single mother that does anything necessary for her children? This issue of non-inclusion…