White people

When people hear the word “justice”, it often invokes a positive connotation. It is a promise of protection and fairness. However, this may not always be the case when unreliable individuals are trusted with such power and responsibility. Twelve Angry Men, Serial, and the series Making a Murderer all bring to light the immense power of our underlying biases and stereotypes as they can cloud the truth. In Twelve Angry Men, members of the jury make assumptions of the defendant because he of where…

or we are the person judging. Living in a society where white supremacy regimes race, class, and gender affect the types of privileges people have in comparison to others. Rights are always cut back when they conflict with the economic interests of the system. In the film Crash directed by Paul Haggis, intertwines the lives of people living in a culturally diverse city of Los Angeles. He highlights the stereotypes people have towards people who are from different races, class, and gender. This…

relationships. The relationship between Chingachgook and Uncas shows the strength and love unique to the bond of a father and son. Chingachgook truly beliefs in the potential of his son and his ability to one-day rule the Mohican people as he declares that “when Uncas follows in my footsteps, there will no longer be any blood of the sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans.” He shows incredible faith in his son, believing him to have the capacity to lead his family…

cost for their dream farm in return for a job. Steinbeck crafts Candy’s character to develop the realities of discrimination for physical disabilities, old age, poor financial status, and low social standing; he uses these traits to establish how people…

Privileged white American men tend to be a lot less culturally and gender sensitive and a large part of that is due to who there are, their identity. With the TV series Archer I will explain how characteristics of identity and aspects of identity influence the attributions and attitudes. The TV show Archer is about the trials of an agency named ISIS (International Secret Intelligence Service). Led by the world’s deadliest spy Archer who is also the son of the Chief Executive Officer, Malory…

Associations between Religion and National Group Membership by Carly M. Jacobs, she emphasizes the fact that there are many stereotypes to what the “typical” American is. Jacobs points out that Americans (when it comes to race) is associated with being white and the religion that the “typical” American is represented is Christian. The United states is labeled as a “Christian nation” because presidents swear on a Bible and “In God We Trust” is placed on their currency. Jacob declares that in her…

and walk around in it” (Lee). Harper Lee essentially teaches her audience that viewing life solely from a personal perspective is limited. Humans possess complex characteristics, and it is unfair to view others with a ‘one-minded’ type of attitude. People fight with each other often since they are too consumed in their own thoughts and opinions to believe anything else. Moreover, relationships…

of skin color. During her conversation with Janie, Mrs. Turner says “Ah got white folks’ features in mah face. Still and all Ah got tuh be lumped in wid all de rest. It ain’t fair. Even if dey don’t take us in wid de whites, dey oughta make us uh class tuh ourselves” (142). Mrs. Turner classes herself off with white people and nobody dares to argue with her. It may not be fair that she is not actually classed with whites, but race is a touchy subject and she must go on living like that. Because…

Imagine a world where people were belittled because they were a certain color or color. To be denied something since you were different. That was a world that Martin Luther King Jr. lived in. Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Minister and a civil rights activist. But he was not the only one. There were other activists such as Malcom X, Dorothy Height, and Rosa Parks. But Martian Luther King Jr. was the best civil rights activists because of his noble values, nonviolent protests, and…

defined as a separation of people based on their race who live in a fixed boundary. Each group experiences the same life styles by participating in the same activities or eating the same foods but just in another part of town. The book Maniac Magee can be compared to the artwork New Kids in the Neighborhood in several ways by creating a mood dictated through the setting of racism. The setting of Maniac Magee takes place in a small town called Two Mills where blacks and whites are separated…