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American culture is obsessed with the saying “to pull oneself up by one 's bootstraps” because it refers to the idea that every individual should work hard and with enough dedication will be able to accomplish their goals. While this idea in theory makes sense, since one does need to put in the necessary work to complete any task, in practice it does not work, because it runs under the assumption that there is a level playing field, when there is not. Unfortunately, society is not fair to all,…

The comparison between African-American and white women, all poor and working class, speaks to recent criticisms within feminist scholarship, where Elizabeth Spelman, bell hooks, Barbara Christian, and others point to a distinctly white middle-class bias. Work within recent years by white women and women of color has attempted to open up feminist thought to the perspectives and practices of those who the black man and subsequent police behavior. As Spelman argued a number of years ago,…

your experience/perception of African American culture? Where do a majority of your perceptions about African Americans come from? What information are you still missing to make a more complete picture? As veteran law enforcement official with over twenty-nine (29) years of experience, it’s very apparent that I have solid view of the African American culture. Personally as it relates to crime, my views are those that associate the white race with more of the white-collar crimes and the black…

constructs have been one of the most intensely analyzed entities. White framing, systemic denial of racism, promulgating the virtuosity of whiteness, and other factors have played a key role in facilitating the growth of these constructs from pre-colonial times until today. The study of these concepts over the past semester has proved to be valuable in not only understanding White supremacy but combatting it properly. Specifically, White supremacy justifies discriminatory actions which lead to…

artist known as Margaret Bourke-White who was an American born in 1904 and died in 1971. This picture depicts “single-family” residential homes in one of Indiana’s largest cities, Muncie. This neighborhood had thrived due to the homegrown business intelligence. Sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd both classified the town as a true representation of “Middletown” United States around the 1920s. LIFE magazine sent White to go cover the story of the Muncie residency. White gathered information that…

White’s article discussed the american dream.”We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that are among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as said by jefferson. (White 243) The American Idea we know is lacking what the american idea was back 239 years ago. There are also some aspects that has not strayed from the original point of view of an american idea. It started off by…

The racial attitudes of most white Americans before 1860 is that they are superior to African Americans in every way. Most white Americans played into racial theories and the idea of white supremacy. Many white Americans, because of the idea of white supremacy, became what would today would be considered racist. They believed many of the racial ideas at the time because of the belief that slaves were subhuman, and their property. Whites thought of themselves as much more civilized and cultured…

significantly to Black-White disparities in breast cancer survival (Freeman, 2004). Poverty affects all Americans regardless of race; however, African Americans tend to shoulder a greater burden from poverty because they constitute a large proportion of the poor in the United States. Some studies have shown that Black-White disparities in breast cancer mortality are reduced after accounting for socioeconomic status. Poverty is associated with poorer breast cancer outcomes for all Americans,…

Blacks Are No Different Than Whites Back in the day, the great depression was among families of all kinds. The days when blacks were treated unfairly and it seemed that everyone was poor and without a home. We have all witnessed this first hand in the documentaries or books in school. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee was said to be “The book of the century!” By the one and only Oprah Winfrey because of its way of expressing the theme “Blacks are no different than whites” through its setting,…

Today, some white guys came into our land violently, they treated us in a very disrespectful manner. We had never seen them or the pieces of metal they carried or what the wood boxes they came in. They had these sticks that shot out projectiles that were able to kill someone in a blink of an eye. Our bow and arrows were nothing compared to their weapons. They shot my friend for not letting them walk into the tribe’s village. We assured them that we did not have anything that they were looking…