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“Hairitage” What is the relevance of Black Women and their hair? “I am not my hair, I am not this skin, I am not your expectations, no I am not my hair, I am not this skin ,I am a soul that lives within.” All women can relate, when it comes to hair, it doesn’t matter your race or ethnicity; every woman has a battle with her hair. These battles can range from deciding on a color or cringing at the thought of just getting a trim. Visually, Black women’s hair is thicker, curlier, and frizzier…

Systemic Racism: United States Divided Does racism still exist? Yes, racism is alive and well. And can be found in the form of systemic racism. Despite laws existing to make racism illegal, racism never ended, it just evolved in a way where African Americans don’t even realize that it is very present in their day-to-day lives. The United States legal system is practicing systemic racism to perpetuate racism and oppress minority races by giving unequal sentencing for the same crime, racial…

How many times have we been given those few opportunities in hosting cultural productions (as it relates to our race/ethnicity) only when it appeals to the white/Western gaze? Why is it that mental health and abuse services promote universalized and de-politicized ideas about the roots of our problems, as if they are not entrenched in institutions and power relations? How come the labor force values only those…

Discrimination is a prevalent issue in society that has decreased over time, but is still occurring. It can be found in more subtle ways than in the past when Whites had their own water fountain to drink out of and Blacks were forced to sit in the back of the bus. The movie, Crash, depicts the prejudice that is present in modern day society. The characters show how people of different races and social classes interact with one another. The stereotypes about the different races are evidently…

heard that her children would be “broke in” to slave life. This meant many hard lessons learned usually be the end of a whip. She did all of her hiding and planning right under Dr. Flint’s nose. Jacobs took refuge in her friends help. She stayed at a white woman’s house in a closet, a swamp, and the biggest achievement of them all— her grandmothers shed. While doing this, Dr. Flint lived in the same town and often visited her grandmothers house asking for news about Harriet. Little did he know…

poorly in most Indian related matters. The mistakes the United States Government made, could have easily been prevented if they had considered the Natives as humans. In chapter 4, The Cheyenne, Arapahos, Sioux, and other tribes agreed to let the whites use their land for trade and for…

affected Malcolm in every experience in his life. He became anti-white and talked poorly about the white man. Malcolm went from a man who did not believe it was possible to integrate races in America and believed in black separatism, to later becoming a man who ultimately wanted for all people to live peace with one another. As a young child, Malcolm experienced racial inequality. He remembered scenes of horror from his childhood in which white men treated his family…

Growing up in a perdonmintally white community the African American culture was not seen very often. The things that I had always heard growing up were "blacks" were lazy, violent, very athletic and forbidden to date. In fifth grade I became best friends with a girl that was African American and it allowed me to see a glimpse into the African American culture. The opinions of others were no longer true and I seen a culture that was rich in family history, work ethic, athletic ability and a…

gap at about ten percent. However, the Wage Gap between White men and African American women is sitting at about sixty three percent, and this leaves the gap to be at thirty seven percent. This is a twenty seven percent difference between these comparisons. So, not only do women already have a substantially lower income than men, but women of color have an even lower income. These women’s earnings in the present are equal to the earnings white women had in the…

The article Why Computer Talents Become Computer Hackers, by Xu Zhengchuan, gives a definition of what titles the “good” and “bad” hackers mean; “White hats are on a quest for knowledge, discovering and alerting security weaknesses in organizational systems and developing better, more secure computer systems; Black Hats go for revenge, sabotage, or outright criminal gain (such as to steal money, products…