White American

States, homeownership is a symbol of status when considering the notion of the American Dream. Owning a house provides families with opportunities to invest into businesses, plan for retirement, finance an education, and consider resources for the next generation. The federal government has made it possible for most average white Americans to finance the purchase of a home, essentially easier wealth building for white Americans. However, it has made it difficult for minorities to attain the same…

establishment of power and the very people who benefited from it were white. A variation of color was not apparent in those who defined freedom, and neither was the goal to obtain it. Thomas Jefferson who wrote in the declaration of independence “...all men are created equal...” owned slaves, and did so until his death. Thomas Jefferson did not need to recognize race or color when stating that “all men are equal” because there was no need. White people composed the vast majority of the…

black incomes, along with anyone who isn’t white, and has an impact on homeownership among other possessions. With the widening racial divide it would take black Americans two hundred and twenty-eight years to have as much wealth as white Americans have today. Some of these reasons are clear: the unemployment rate among black Americans is roughly twice that of whites, and black people earn, on average, between twelve and twenty-two percent less than white people with similar education and…

article provide a clearer picture of how racial/ethnic inequality parallels itself between different non-white groups and how racial/ethnic inequalities parallel class inequalities. Gans’s article is harder to digest not because his predictions of racial divides masquerading as class divides are outlandish but because he attempts to describe Asian Americans in a way that aligns them with white Americans, which is an idea most people, Asian or not, would disagree with due to its naïve idealism.…

White privilege is a term for societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. This is one of the biggest types of unspoken racism that happens all around us. For the most part the white people benefiting from it are fully oblivious to it and don’t know how it has helped their lives. Most African American and other minorities are sometimes blind to this too.…

the most judgemental if you’re a person of color. America will judge you the most if your skin tone is dark, or what Americans call black, because of their past. If you come from a place where everyone looks the same or that race doesn 't matter, you would not notice racism or be judged based on your skin tone. In Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie its states “Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I 'm Jamaican…

The term “Americanness” can be defined as the characteristic of being American. Over the years, the negatives regarding race have seemingly undermined what it means to be an American. We get a better understanding of this and what it means to be American from the writings of Ted Nakashima, Booker T. Washington and Marco Rubio. Rubio talks about how he believes we should restore the American dream which will give a basis to what “Americanness” is all about. Then I will compare it to Nakashima and…

and his answer was quite inappropriate. In short, he said that this population is overrun by donut sellers (Asians), border jumpers (Mexicans), N-words (African Americans), and the good people (whites). My mom was more appropriate, stating that there is most likely a very close race in the population, but that a lot of people were mostly white. The last person I asked was my grandma, who lives in the Mexican barrio of Fort Worth, Texas. She said that she believed that there were many Hispanics…

perfect. A white, middle-class male attending a feminist African American event based around promoting the disrespectability of African American women towards white male figures in power. As the clock struck six, Dr. Brittney Cooper stepped onto the stage and opened her presentation, entitled Dis-Respectability: Towards A Ratchet Black Feminism. Nearly every other white male in the room seemed to visibly squirm in their seat. However, what followed was not a ninety-minute presentation on why…

When the hip-hop era started back in 1970s in Bronx, New York, it was arguably predominately for African Americans. Now days, hip-hop are becoming more universal with different types of ethnicities. We see different types of ethnicities with hip-hop culture of graffiti, break dancing, and rapping. For example, the film 8 Mile and Step Up is about B-Rabbit and Tyler Gage who are both white pursuing hip-hop cultures such as break dancing and rapping. Both B-Rabbit and Tyler had struggles such as…