White people

Native tribes have always treated the white people with respect, yet the white people have always remained greedy. They are never satisfied. The greed and the disrespect of the white people and the United States is what caused them to suffered so much. To this day many natives live in reservations. The thousands of acres the tribes owned are now decreased to hundreds. One of the blackest chapters in American History is what happened to the Natives. The white people lied to the Native, took all…

People are inquisitive by nature, and that inquisitiveness is arguably best reflected in the immediate desire to discern the various facets of someone’s identity. As surmised by Lisa Jones’ inclusion of the following quote: “Who are you, what are you, where are you from, no, where are you really from, where are your parents from, are your grandparents Americans?” This discernment is dangerous when it becomes linked up to structures of power and hierarchies that promote race, femininity,…

The news article “’Go Back to China’: Readers Respond to Racist Insults Shouted at a New York Times Editor” discusses the racial insults said to Asian-Americans. Micheal Luo published a letter online to someone who had told his family to go back to China (Luo, 2016, para. 3). Luo (2016) received many replies from Asian-Americans telling their stories of similar experiences encountering racism (para. 4). In the class The Myth of Race and Reality of Racism, we discuss the definition of racism.…

continuously growing part of American life. The tech workforce is growing to match. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, or “STEM,” jobs are projected to reach 8,650,000 by 2018 (Newlands). As the digital technology industry grows, the need for women, people of color grows as well. Technology companies…

In his book, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian,” Sherman Alexie discussed the required strategies for overcoming poverty. The book points out that white people have more hope than Native Americans living on the reservations (Alexie, 45). This theme of hope helps outline the characteristics required for a poor individual to stay motivated in the possibility of getting out of poverty. Junior and his sister, Mary seem to have pursued hope with a similar approach; they both moved out…

its own social construction in conversations. A large amount of it is dependent upon the instance in which it is being discussed. Often times when I was in high school our teachers would say, “There are just some things you avoid talking about with people because you can never agree. You don’t talk about religion, politics, or race.” This type of view point is somewhat common in American culture. Our avoidance of the topic leads to an uncomfortable atmosphere when it is brought into discussion. …

racism, which is a positive message of the story. Likewise, “I Didn’t Own Any Slaves” shares very similar message, which is also positive. However, even though this story shares a positive message, the essence of the story is something related to white people. According to Lynn (as quoted in Bonilla-Silva”, an MU student, “we shouldn’t be punished real harshly for the things that our ancestors did, on the one hand, but on the other hand, I think that now we should try and change the way we do…

country and other countries we see this immense gap in the way people think. Bystanders can cause a great deal of damage without doing a thing to others or themselves. I am here to talk about the way bystanders can rip apart a community and how they can also how they act like a cohesive that bonds the people of the society. This racism is in place to seperate the people of different races from each other. This is called segregation, White and Black students were not allowed to go to the same…

society in general. She arranges her essay in a way where the true purpose of her argument is not stated to the reader until she’s almost done with what she has to say. Her main argument is that skin color is just skin color and that on the inside, people are all the same. She alludes to it throughout her speech and gives many examples that serve to support what she will say eventually. She begins her essay with a fairly light-hearted tone and gives an example to the “very day” she became…

atop the gatepost. Proscenium box for a born first-nighter”, instead of saying theater stage she says a proscenium box. Another time, instead of saying that the only difference she knew of white and colored people was that the whites rode through town, but never stayed, she chose to say it differently; “white people differed from colored to me only in that they rode through town and never lived there.” Hurston’s diction was extensive enough in this essay that it may have caused even the reader…