White Hart

still remember how different it felt coming to a new place; where there were so many natural and social differences. The climate changes and there is an awareness of race when compared to the different bodies found. When I was back home and I saw a white person, it never registered to me what I now have come to understand as race. I just thought they looked different and that was the end. When I ended up engaging with them I was treated according to our age…

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…

Recently, more and more students prefer to study abroad. And a number of international students in the U.S, which is the most attractive destination in the world, has increased 72 percent since 2000. As we know most of undergraduate and postgraduate tuitions are incredibly expensive. Moreover students have to not only afford the tuitions but also the expenditure of living, which make the budget of study abroad become higher. As a result, there is a popular topic that whether students should…

states that, “Many Baltimore white householders shared the hostile sentiments of Robert Goodloe Harper. . . that free blacks in general constituted an ‘idle, worthless, and thievish race’” (Rockman 121). This common view hurt black women’s opportunity to find jobs. They needed to work hard to prove that they were just as hard working as any white women. One man who took note of the difference of skill, in areas such as knitting, sewing, ironing, in black women versus white women, leads to show…

Fried Green Tomatoes is both a film and book written by Fannie Flagg, which takes place in Whistle Stop, Alabama. Whistle Stop is a small community and everyone is involved in each other’s business. It tells the story of four women in two different eras and the trials and tribulations of their life. Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison originally met when Jamison dated Idgie Threadgoodes brother, Buddy Threadgoode. Buddy Threadgoode died after being involved in a train accident, both Idgie…

Erma Johnson was born in Racine, Wisconsin in 1933. Shortly after, his family relocated to Arkansas, the place where he grew up. They were extremely poor sharecroppers, often Johnson would have to pick cotton all day just to help his family barely make a living. One time, after working for a man for a week, the man refused to pay him, and being black, he had no recourse, he just had to accept it. His family often could not afford basic necessities like shoes. In spite of this, his father was an…

African American and describes his life as an “invisible man.” However, the concept of invisibility is used metaphorically to critique the white man’s perception of the African American society. While narrating the story of his life, the main character, who’s name is not mentioned in the story, reveals the social…

What this phenomenon is, is best explained by Oba T’Shaka when he describes black people comparing themselves to beauty standards made for white people (p.163). Two different groups of people with distinct looks cannot be held to the same beauty standards. This is the same when comparing the black family to white families. However, in order for researchers and African American people to free themselves from western conceptual incarceration, they must be taught an alternative…