White Hart

There are some things that I have noticed in the book that may still happen today but I do not think that they would be nearly as severe as they were back in the 1920’s when the lynching’s in Duluth happened or even before the 1920’s. The officer who interviewed Sandra about the rape just believed everything that she said without doing much investigation into if all her facts line up together. Today I think that something similar could happen but I think police would investigate it much more…

It is not a coincidence that black men are statistically more likely to be incarcerated than white counterparts or that the number of degree-bearing black people is disproportionately small. If you are a black person in America you have been born into the most current iteration of that systemic inferiority that has existed from the onset of American society. “White privilege” is simply another term denoting, again, the most current form of that systemic racism that has always…

role as a nation on the global stage. Only one issue, however, has led to civil war in our country– the issue of slavery. When wealthy landowners began buying and importing African Americans as slaves, they created a stark division between blacks and whites. A bloody war was fought to settle the matter, yet we still face issues of race today. Discrimination and racism have divided our nation more than any other, throughout our history, and are problems we are still attempting to solve. While…

In most of the images, Chinese people where shown in very stereotypical and racist ways. For example, in the photo from Harpers Weekly article in 1871, A Chinese man was shown cowering under Lady Liberty arms and white Americans congregated in large numbers in which they look like they want to hurt the Chinese man (1871,page 147). There are also fliers behind the Chinese man, which read “Importation of Chinese Barbarians” and “ The Chinaman works cheap because he…

It is almost impossible for myself as a privileged, upper-class white male to understand the prejudice and blatant racism that many African Americans, such as Ms. Summerville, have to endure, just because of the color of their skin. It is nauseating that for how far society has progressed, large groups of people are…

microaggression from our very own President-Elect. In doing so, Trump evokes Omi & Winant’s groundbreaking work Racial Formations (1986), playing into the racial project of White Supremacy. Thus, the microaggression Donald Trump commits toward African-Americans in the video clip is a reflection of how the hegemony of the White Supremacy racial project has pervaded the contemporary era. Claudia Rankine’s Citizen is a collection of microaggressions. In each vignette, she captures the essence of…

robberies to raise money for heroin. In prison Robby expresses that, “Robbing white people didn’t cause me to lose no sleep back then. How you gon feel sorry when society is so corrupt, when everybody got their hand out or got their hand in somebody else’s pocket and ain 't no rules nobody listens to if they can get away with breaking them? ...I’m sorry about that and I’m damned sorry that guy Starvos got killed…as far as robbing white people, ain’t no way I was gon torture myself over that one”…

BLACK LIVES MATTER: Navigating White Silence, Fear, Denial and Privilege. The final shot of Poussey Washington’s lifeless face sent chills down my spine. Her cold body—the end result of a blonde haired, brown-eyed white woman using her white privilege to maintain a monopoly on her illegal panty-selling business in the hit Netflix’s series Orange Is the New Black (OITNB). This final shot exemplifies the current issues in our county concerning law enforcement, white privilege, and black lives.…

For example, Ida mae grew up in a small town where a white man would come through weekly and start firing of shots at any black man, woman, or child that he came across. This went on and on and the government never persecuted him for anything. However, when the tables flipped and an African American was accused of the slightest wrong, for example opening the door for a white woman and saying something that she was uncomfortable with, or being accused of stealing…

cosmopolitan canopies, “settings that offer a respite from the lingering tensions of urban life and an opportunity for diverse peoples to come together” (Anderson xiv). While his experience of Philadelphia as a black man is different than mine as a white woman, I believe cosmopolitan canopies can be identified by any person if they are looking for one. Anderson 's definition of a cosmopolitan canopy is broad enough that nearly all of the heavily populated areas of Philadelphia can be classified…