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year in a row, not a single black actor received a nomination this year for the Academy Awards ceremony. Are white actors any better than black actors or is the Academy racist? What is keeping perfectly qualified black entertainers from getting any recognition? This deeply cut into the long going conversation about opportunities in entertainment for people of color and inequalities between white and black actors in the entertainment industry. Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, actor Will Smith, and…

Wright’s Native Son, these two crimes are brought to the forefront, committed by 20-year-old black protagonist Bigger Thomas. By the end of Fear, Bigger has murdered the young white Mary Dalton, and halfway through Flight, Bigger has added another crime, the rape and murder of Bessie Thomas, his black girlfriend. The white world in the story is utterly shocked that something so abhorrent has occurred in their town, and they want nothing short of Bigger’s execution. Yet despite his actions, the…

believed and what one perceives as real based on one’s own thoughts. One white American may believe in denial while another may not. It would be absurd to assume that everyone in some way has not heard another express their views in which some amount of prejudice helped form it. Depending on the situation and participants involved; emotions run wild and in effect a prejudice maybe born. In my experiences, there is a tendency for white people to ignore the notion…

minorities. So the general public, or white people, feared minorities and thought them to be dangerous. Central Park was also considered a safe area, so when they hear a white jogger was attacked there, everyone flipped out because they no longer saw Central Park as a safe place to be or to bring their kids. Maybe if it had been a white man, it would have been different. But this was different, this was not just one but a group of black men attacking a white women. Crime is expected…

they think they are better than the others. In the play “ A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, you can see how race becomes a huge impact because during the slavery movement till 1960’s there was a conflict between the African Americans and white americans due to their skin color. Still, racism can be seen in today’s society, but not as prevalent as it was from back then, but it should not continue because we are supposed to get along with each other not hate one another. The Younger…

In is an eye-opening documentary that informs people of what the war on drugs truly is. The black community has been the initial target of the war on drugs (drugs and drug abuse). This is something that is very hard for me to understand because the white community are the ones who brought the drugs over in the first place, and minorities are made to suffer. Also, higher powers put so much focus on people, that they loose site of what the real problem is. Drugs are the monsters that kill people…

from communities of respectable citizens through the violence (p. 182→Houses). Despite emancipation and formal legal equality, violence conveyed a symbolism of the assailants’ visions for southern society’s hierarchical racial order (181→Houses). White men claimed mastery over their households, their property, and the security of their family members as a powerful link to popular constructions of manhood and citizenship. So, through attacks on domestic spaces, these men acted out the…

Racism encouraged solidarity, but blacks did not take one method to cope or end antiblack racism. White women enjoyed new opportunities and privileges and took more roles in the public eye. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham stated that “categories of analysis- race, gender, class and sexuality- are interrelated and overlapping”.Black women are also thought of as having certain class and sexual identities while white women allegedly possess a different class and sexual identity. In this era many black…

discipline children, in the African American community, it is often referred to as receiving a whooping/whipping. The difference between African Americans and White Americans on how children are disciplined is very drastic. While the majority of the African American community feels children should be raised under strict disciplinary rules; the White American community tends to follow…

become involved directly with those events, instead, it focuses on exploring the remaining effects of race through self-hatred. Many characters from the novel who are African American are devastated with the cultural and already imposed notions of white perfection to the limit that they hate themselves for not being up to society`s standards. The best character that Morrison utilized to depict these outcomes is Pecola Breedlove, a passive, eleven-year old, black girl whose lack of parental…