Pregnancy discrimination

During the 1960s, several socio-cultural and political events like students’ protest, anti-Vietnam war agitation, liberation for lesbians and gays andthe Women’s Movement shook the American literary scenario. The new generation of playwrights used drama as a potent medium in depicting the ongoing turbulence that prevailed in the society deftly. However, the Women’s Movement gathered women from allwalks of life, to come to the streets to record their protests and speak their voices. In spiteof…

Racism is expressing discrimination and intolerance towards people of other races. This intense feeling of disregard towards humans of other races has surfaced as a prevalent issue for decades. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, an innocent colored man is convicted of rape and sentenced to death due to injustice and racism taking over the decisions of the jury. Often, when a person displays prejudice towards certain races than compared to others, he or she will make decisions that…

Reality Is a Slap on the Face The themes of class conflict and racism manifest themselves in Flannery O’Connor’s “Everything That Rises Must Converge” in a few different ways. The characters’ attitudes, the focalizer’s behavior, and the images come together to reflect discriminatory outlooks and beliefs. The racism of white people is obvious in the short story. It is evident in Mrs. Chestny’s speech and mannerisms. Mrs. Chestny thinks that the world has become chaotic because slavery has been…

Martin Luther King Jr, one of the biggest impacts the world has ever had on racism said in one of his speeches, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr just wanted peace and equality in the world and by doing so he came up with these inspirational quotes that a lot of people live by today. In the story black and white by David Macaulay peace and equality isn't really the case when Marcus and Eddie, two…

Conflicts in society are often caused by the lack of understanding of the contrasting forces and issues that drive and shape people. This is particularly true between people belonging to different social strata, where each is unable to wear the shoes of the other, and incapable of understanding the other’s fears and aspirations. This is illustrated in The Outsiders by S.E Hinton which depicts a rivalry of a group of higher class citizens named the Socs and a group of lower classmen named the…

and Racial Discrimination in Toni Morrison Novels Ms. Yamuna J.KirubaSharmila Research Scholar Assistant Professor Department of English Department of English Vels University, Chennai – 600 117 Vels University,Chennai –600 117 yamuna.s076@gmail.com kiru.sharmi@gmail.com Abstract This paper attempts to focus on how the black people in America suffered for getting their identity and to overcome racial discrimination. Women…

Forbidden Freedom In history, human rights have always been a problem, and yet to this day, it still remains. Specifically, in the past, women had adapted to live in a suppressed environment, solely because their limited rights have never allowed them to cross a certain boundary. In fact, the United States, foremost in the race of modernization in the world, enabled women to vote in 1920; however, prior to that, individualism, freedom, and equality did not exist in the dictionary for women.…

Terrance Hayes has written a series of sonnets all titled “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin.” Each poem is completely different, but all contain critiques of racial injustice in the US. Hayes centers his sonnets around two questions: Who is the assassin? and What is an American sonnet? In “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin[I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison],” the answer to the first question is the white hierarchy and shows the complex relationship…

Human Exceptionalism & Othering There are two issues in human history and today’s society that must be addressed. These issues are the concepts of human exceptionalism and othering. In simpler terms, these words are based on the phrases “I am human, therefore I am better” and “You are different therefore you are inferior.” As humans, we naturally look at all other living or non-living organisms as inferior. We make our superiority known by referring to other organisms as an “it” or “thing.”…

During the Victorian era, one of the underlying issues that society was faced with is race. In fact, similar, derogatory characteristics were allocated to different groups of people such as white, middle class women, Blacks and members of the lower class. These different groups of people were seen as irrational, superstitious and sharing the same physical qualities like skin colour for example. However, race in the book Jane Eyre applies not only to colour, but nationality as well. In addition,…