Relay race

During Donald Trump’s campaign, he made some very strong statements pertaining race and ethnicity. By being a wealthy white male Trump already achieves a high position of power, given the long history of the white man. In addition, Trump relays similar attributes that contribute to the continuation of racial prejudice in society. In the primary source document, 8.4 from James Mather and William Claiborne, Excerpts…

defense attorney and brother fear for his safety. What about the public’s fear and safety? An aggressive, ticking time bomb of a man where the littlest things can set him off is back free on the streets. The trial may be over, but the debate about race surrounding the case still lingers on. The six jurors—all of them women—deliberated for sixteen and a half hours. Five of them white, one being a minority. “The most fundamental of civil rights—the right to life—was violated the night George…

Timmah Ball’s memoir “Still talkin' up to the white woman” explores instances of corporate racism, in particular those perpetrated or instigated by white women, in an experience based examination of white feminism, highlights the need to for intersectionality in modern, corporate feminism. The author begins the piece with an anecdote about the poster of Jean-Léon Gérôme‘s “Moorish Bath” depicting a black slave woman washing the back of an upper class white woman, hanging in her which female…

from these pupils seems shocking and stimulates an immediate reaction from those who are listening; similarly, these powerful words in Lugo’s piece awaken an individual sentiment from the reader. For example, immediately upon beginning her essay, she relays her counter statement after a student tested the ideologies of prejudicial views, stating “regardless of who pays for my services, I am your professor, not your personal prostitute” (189). Not only has this obviously created an immense gasp…

is a movie of endless delicacies, it is about the boundaries set by the racist society. In the film two adults (Aimee and Protee) are mutually attracted to each other but can’t be together because of their skin colour differences (Ebert). Chocolat relays heavily on visuals to emphasise the conflict between France’s family and the servants.…

rights activist, Anne Moody, was born in 1940 and grew up poor and black in rural Mississippi. In her memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Moody tells what is was like to grow up black in the Jim Crow Era. As Anne Moody recounts her childhood, she relays the exact moment in which she realized her blackness made her inferior to her white counterparts. Her realization was a significant part of her childhood, but what came after this point was also crucial. She began questioning what it meant to…

By using this theme, the film relays a sense of urgency for the viewers to help the Navajos and feel sympathetic towards them. The idea of the “vanishing Indian” is a “…centuries-old stereotype of Native Americans as the ‘vanishing race’…” (Hawley 2016:1). This stereotype was founded in the nineteenth century when white anthropologists as well as photographers felt the need to document…

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon focuses on the psyche of people of color in a white world. The book basically explores what goes through the mind of black people and whites under conditions that have been set by white rule. It mainly expounds on the effects of racism on black people and the society in general. A thorough analysis of the book reveals multiple themes that are echoed throughout the text. This essay will focus on some of the themes in the book. In the introduction, Fanon…

States. From gospel to jazz, African-Americans (like any group of persons) consistently find a sense of self within their music. For blacks surviving in an oppressive and racist America, music was an outlet in which they could safely and effectively relay their struggle not only to each other but also to the general population. According to historic scholars Eyerman and Jamison,…

it could have been what he insinuated, but it could have been that she was irresistibly seductive. What Brown does portray, then, throughout “Clotel,” is the pervasive, recurring victimization of Black women under slavery. Even individuals of mixed-race status who attempt to pass as White nevertheless suffer. Brown also exposes the insidious intersection of economic gain and political ambition—represented by Founding Fathers such as Jefferson and Horatio Green—that works to preserve this…