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Learning about one's own cultural identity is critical in starting a multicultural education. If a person understands the culture that they belong to they will be more likely to respect other cultures for being different. When people look at other cultures they need to see them in that culture's perspective. Blum was arguing that it is not necessary to agree with every aspect of another culture, but it is necessary to respect it (571). By seeing and respecting cultures in their view it…

This is showing that the people judged and disliked the white men pretty much because of the past and what has happened. In though Mr. Brown seem to start to build some bridges and reach out to the people, here is a new white missionary and they are telling him they will harm him because he is with Mr. Brown, but the church must be destroyed. In addition, the people had even started telling stories that the white man had not only brought a religion but also a government. It…

The scene opens at an award assembly to honor the few distinguished students of Ballou High School. Unfortunately, the assembly basically made sure "the ‘whiteys' now had faces. The honor students were hazed for months afterwards (Suskind 3)." In addition to showing the adversity Cedric faces from his peers, the opening chapter also portrays Cedric positively. "Cedric Jennings often retreats [to Mr. Taylor's classroom to practice SAT problems (Suskind 4)]." Unfortunately, one person can only be…

So, in the April of 1874 a group of artists consisting of Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Cézanne, Morisot, and Degas organized their own exhibition at the studio of a photographer named Nadar. They invited some other progressive artists to exhibit with them. There were a total of thirty artists that participated in the exhibition, and was the first of eight that the group presented between the years 1874 and 1886. The response of critics was mixed and Monet and Cézanne had to bear the harshest…

Upon first glance the films Pinky (1949) and Lost Boundaries (1949) appear to be progressive. They portray controversial ideas such as miscegenation and equality between whites and blacks. But are these films really trying to make a statement of equality? While on the surface Pinky and Lost Boundaries, make a contentious political statement; in actuality they make a mockery of the idea of egalitarianism. The film Pinky addresses the questionable idea of a mixed race couple and of a black…

The first time the contaminating effect appears in the narrative, it is illustrated through Mrs.Auld. When Douglass first meets here she is unaccustomed to the ways of slavery, and thus, had a completely different character than the whites he previously held relationships with. Mrs. Auld gives Douglass his first taste of education. However, slavery corrupted her goodness: The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful…

case against the Board of Education and their daughter was allowed to attend a regular white school. On May 17, 1954, nine justices from the United States Supreme Court declared that the legal sanctioned racial segregation in public schools is a violation of the US Constitution. (SouthernSpaces). Segregation of schools was no longer legal, and the African American children had the right to go to any school that white children attended. In their minds this was wonderful but they didn’t think of…

moved to Harlem, a major center of African- American culture. The narrator finds the different between the North and South unbelievable. He is amazed to find white drivers obeying the directions of black policemen, on the subway he stresses out about being to close to a white woman, and in a diner he wonders if it’s insulting to tip a white waiter. In the North, the narrator experiences an undeniable amount of extraordinary racial freedom and feels as if he was transported to another planet.…

Nija Burnette Professor Felix Germain African Studies 1100 9 December 2014 Growing up, many little boys wanted to be the super heroes they watched on the television. Most people can recall the ending word of the phrase: “Look! Up in the sky! It 's a bird, it 's a plane, it 's...” The most popular super hero of all time was Superman and the focus of the previous phrase. He had super strength and speed, could fly, was invulnerable, had x-ray vision, and superhuman hearing. Superman was the ideal…

‘ People generally see what the look for, and hear what they listen for.” when a white man see a black man and despises him we call that prejudice. Although when a black man is alleged of a crime he did’t commit because of the pigmentation in his skin we as the reader say racial discrimination. In her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird set in the 1930’s Maycomb County, southern Alabama, Harper Lee skilfully depicts racial discrimination as a major theme. In this essay I will be exploring the aspects…