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In Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s, “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett shows what life was like for black maids taking care of white families. Stockett does a good job of showing the difference between real life and fiction. She knows that race is a fact of life and how society can determine what people see you as. “The Help” is a community of black people who bring up white children and take care of their homes. The book is narrated by three women, Minny; a black maid who has a big mouth…

Summary This document, Crusade for Justice, Autobiography, by Ida B. Wells, is a personal account, in which Wells recalls how her involvement in African American activism began. Specifically, it began when she heard an account of the lynchings of Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart, who owned a grocery store that directly competed with a grocery store that was owned by a white man. Until this time, Wells had taken many reasons for lynchings at face value. Most commonly, these…

Clint Smith in his Ted Talk, How to raise a black son in American delivers a very persuasive and powerfully touching speech on the dynamics of race and his childhood instilled values. Smith shares the life lessons instilled in him by his father when he was young on the unsettling and unfair reality of being a young black American Kid and the sacrifices they have to make. To elaborate on the unfair and unsettling reality of a being a young black kid growing in America, Smith tells the story of…

Fences: The Impact of Racial Segregation [Definition] Troy Maxson has experience discrimination throughout his life dealing with the white man. Because of racial segregation in his past, Troy develops a deep hatred for the white man. He hold the white man responsible for most of his misfortune since they was the ones who prevents him from doing anything he wants. The theatrical work Fences written by August Wilson shows how racial segregation creates complications with the Maxson family:…

The amount of independence we have can be directly influenced by the choices we make throughout our lives. However difficult they may be, the right choices typically come with some sort of reward. In Richard Wright’s autobiographical novel, Black Boy, the author struggles for his independence. In the end, Richard gains his independence as a result of the difficult decisions he was forced to make. His determination for freedom ultimately got him to his desired destination. As a boy,…

“Citizen” by Claudia Rankine was a very raw and gritty read because of the skillful craftsmanship of diction she employed, which really heightens the expression of the experiences she witnessed as an African American. Many people like to avoid the subject of racism in America but not Rankine, she did not sugar coat anything in her writing, she gave it to you like it is. In addition, Rankine’s straightforward approach really shows the readers the reality of what it was like being black in America…

a different race. In the 1930s, black people were mistreated mostly in the south by white people. The white people would make life hard on the black people by tar and feathering, let whites go in front of them, calling them rude names, or even killing them by the night men or in other words, the KKK. Racism is still an issue today because of beliefs and opinions. Although racism is not as prevalent as it was in the South in the 1930s, we still struggle as a nation with this problem in many…

In the film, Guess who’s coming to dinner and in the story, Going to meet the man. Both of them approach the subject of racism. However, the way that racism is approached by these two stories is different from each other. One shows racism in a more violent and aggressive light. When the other has a more subtle approach of the subject, without any real violence being committed. Nevertheless, racism is showed through out in both stories, but you could never confuse these stories. Their approaches…

think they are above everybody like people of color, Mexicans and other races to this society. How did the white supremacy begin? It all started during Civil War when the white supremacy was in the South and North they were fighting for slavery according to the article “White Supremacy and Terrorism”. The south they were really strict with the people of color they thought they were worthless and didn't have any rights for anything. The whites thought they were “smarter and better” than anybody.…

I’m confused. I don’t know what to think or how I should feel. All my life white folks have always convicted black folks for doing something that wasn’t bad at all. I have thought this and thought that. I can’t make up my mind and can’t get my head on straight. I started to see things a little differently. Ever since the night before the trial something been bothering me. I can’t leave that thought alone. That night when me and my buddies went to the jail house I was thinking one thing, and by…