The White Man's Burden

time period a person lived and where, the color of their skin, and even what determined or denied their basic rights as human beings could restrict their education. Both Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X—African American men raised in societies where white men are predominant and where it is challenging for them to find a pathway to education if it was allowed in the first place—share little in common when the course of their individual development of literacy is compared. Douglass tells the…

Cultural side for explanation. Hoganson compares the Filipinos to savages, feminine figures, and childlike, stereotypes. His emphases are based on the fact that their government and culture have a lot of work to do. It is emphasized that American white, Middle as well as upper class men would be considered “ideal citizens” and they would be better at running their government. The primary sources that would effectively back him up with his cultural view would be Albert Beveridge and William…

During the late 1800s and early 1900s race theory was used to justify the actions of European leaders. Race theory, the idea that human beings were divided into superior and inferior races, can be derived from Social Darwinism. Herbert Spencer, an English philosopher, applied the idea from before the 1850s that human beings were divided into different races with biological superiority to develop the idea of Social Darwinism (McKay, p. 697). This theory states that races that were the best…

Before the period of European imperialism, many parts of North and East African were impacted by foreign influences from Islamic cultures. Following the death of the Prophet Muhammad, Islam established itself on a global scale spreading to parts of Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, coming to East Africa as early as the eighth century. Likewise to Christianity in Western Africa, Islam amalgamated well with the local cultures and traditions. This is particularly important as both religion and…

Following the release of D.W. Griffith’s seminal work, The Birth of a Nation, was an explosion of controversy over the racism in the film’s portrayal of blacks and people of mixed race. Since then, Griffith had thoroughly maintained that he himself was not racist and in righting his wrongs, he went out to make in particular, two films to show the movie going public how unprejudiced he was (Lesage). Those two films were Intolerance and the movie to be discussed in this paper, Broken Blossoms.…

stage achieved by a European child.” (Keim 35) To conclude his analysis, Keim discusses the White Man’s Burden. This burden, first written about by Theodore Roosevelt following a safari trip in Africa, is a call on white men to take care of the inferior black race. This Burden signifies that it is the duty of a white man to govern and protect the less civilized. Furthermore, it is signified that white men should be responsible for black men, like a parent is responsible for a child.…

It’s a clear October night, temperatures are hovering around 63 degrees, you crack open the window and snuggle into the comfort and familiarity of your own bed, you are lulled to sleep by the fresh, crisp, Autumn breeze, totally unaware of the bad dream you have a date with once asleep. It’s a horrible, horrible dream yet so common you’ve personally experienced it, once, twice maybe even a dozen times, or you know people who have, or seen this kind of nightmare played out in a movie. There you…

William Faulkner weaves a complex story of the investigation of the murder of Miss Joanna Burden through flashbacks, characters memories, and conscious and subconscious thoughts in his novel Light in August. Faulkner’s use of Christmas’ backstory and choices to show that man’s unacceptance and inconsistency leads to isolation. Joe Christmas’ journey into isolation is initiated by external pressure and beliefs very early in his childhood at the orphanage. There is where he discovers the most…

The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi and Malala Yousafzai and the White Savior Complex by Assed Baig, give readers a backstage pass on the show the media puts on for the world. Faludi deeply searches into how the media played a role post 9/11 and refers to the terror dream as haunted terror we do not remember. The event 9/11 destroyed the myth of invisibility that America could not be attacked and the media reacted in such a way that nothing like that would ever happen again. In 2012, When Malala…

Ariel’s, the heroine’s, fascination with this white prince whom she doesn’t even know or has ever spoken to, is not unlike that of an obsessed schoolgirl as she caresses artifacts from his unreachable world and sings of her desires to be a part of him. Her idolization of this untouchable, gorgeous…