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PBS NEWSHOUR: The hidden racism of young white Americans By: Sean McElwee Sean McElwee is a research associate at Demos. Racism in America is as prevalent today as it ever was. Astoundingly, it's not just older white folks, a large chunk of the racist population is now young white millennials. At least that’s what Sean McElwee thought when he wrote “The hidden racism of young white Americans.” Sean argues that while older generations of racists die out, new progressive young generations take…

in Canada. In this paragraph I will discuss how my personal experience of being raised in a white dominated community relates to terms such as: post colonialism, collective consciousness, assimilation policy and whiteness. By discussing my personal experience and relating it back to these concepts I will get a better sense of how racism is shaped in the area I grew up in. To begin, I was raised in a white European dominated community called Woodbridge. In this community most of the residents are…

Freedom Charter of 1955, “all people [of South Africa] shall have the right to live where they choose, be decently housed, and to bring their families up in comfort and security.” Similarly, the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act of 1998 (PIELA) aims to eradicate persistent post-Apartheid residential segregation by preventing the unlawful persecution of mostly black, impoverished renters and tenants who occupy land claimed by mostly white, wealthier…

Dad allows the continuation of placing stereotypes on groups of people which leads to negative consequences. Season 1 episode 6 of American Dad is a prime example of a non-multicultural piece of literature. This episode is about how the Smith family, a white middle class family, wanted to throw a barbeque for their neighborhood. Stan and his wife Francine went around to all the houses personally…

time to understand, though, is that racism is present in his own mind too. He is racist. “‘I’m an indian boy,’ I said, ‘How can I get a white girl to love me?’” (116). He asks Gordy this question about Penelope. The significance of this quote is that Junior sees the two races as unequal. He does not just want a girl to fall in love with him, but specifically a white girl. Gordy tells him a few days later, “I think it means you’re just a racist asshole like everyone else” (116). This is when…

country and actually the whole world. There are many ways people are harassed or called out by the color of their skin or their sexual preference. Racism, Sexism, ageism, classism, lookism, ableism, speciesism, heterosexism, anti-semitism and much more. In the 1900’s, racism was unbelievable. As in unbelievable, it was way worse than now. Some examples are, black Americans were not allowed to have the same things or privileges as the white Americans. The black Americans were always brutally hurt…

that during the 19th century, a race is some form of organic group that has a complete limitation on others; such as White with White, and Black to be with Black. Along the same line, the two extremist groups have the same mindset that White people are civilization creators, and they have developed new technologies, arts, and remodeled the universe. In the same note, Black people to these extremist groups are taken as natural disasters that display’s their behaves through the social skills of…

the struggles of the clashing of Native American and White culture both in physical space and within people, as Tayo represents the meeting of these two cultures within a singular person. The narrative traverses both time and space in an unorthodox method forcing the reader to move away from a traditional, western reading of text and to accept a different method in order to…

The article “Being a Good Teacher of Black Students? White Teachers and Unintentional Racism,” Nora Hyland writes about the roles of 27 White teachers in the U.S. who identified as good teachers, but held racist views against their students. The school that these teachers taught at was in the Midwestern part of the country. They participated in the reproduction of racial inequality, which can exacerbate racist effects. This article explored the idea that teachers perpetuated the “status quo” of…

humans, people often times let what others say determine how they view others. This type of bias can come from family members, or even town folks. To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is based on the 1930’s. In those times, white people were intolerant of others who were different from them. This theme of being unaccepting is evident in the book. The main character, Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill have to face much of the town’s biases and decide what type of people they…