White trash

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is a documentary in which explores the life of the White family. The White family is known around town for drug activity, forgery, embezzlement, armed robbery, and fights. Narrated by Mamie White, the oldest daughter of D. Ray and Bertie White, she tells the story of both the living and deceased family members. Her father, D. Ray, was a mountain dancing legend and patriarch of the family. D. Ray became famous before he was murdered in 1985 and was…

think just because we live in the 21st century there are no more oppression, privilege, and discrimination, but some are not yet educated to develop a critical social justice perspective. Through the ideas learned in this course and the readings (White Privilege by Paula S. Rothenberg and Is everyone really equal? by Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo) I am pleased to say that I personally have been transformed to think critically about our society. From thinking on why our society is the way it is…

Each culture has a number of things that is thought to be exclusively theirs. Dancing specifically is something that makes a culture more easily identified. When you see a particular dance or think of it you, without delay associate it with a specific culture or group of people. For instance, when you hear hip-hop dance you immediately think of African Americans right? Let’s take this same idea and apply it to stepping or step dancing, what group of people or culture do you associate it with?…

person behaves in a way that is approved by the society he is connected to. Rufus lives in an era where white men are deemed to be the superior person and could do no wrong. Rufus behaves in the same way that he sees his father and society of that era behave especially in their attitude towards women and the slaves and he is conditioned to believe that it is the correct way to act, especially for a white person. His father ill -treats the slaves and does not think twice about whipping them and…

prayers of the town go unanswered as the two boys become the physical manifestation of the hatred they were born into. “We, who had cast their mother out because of them, could we take them in? They answered black and white folks by shooting up two men and leaving town. "Godam the white folks; godam the niggers," they shouted as they left town” (6). The townspeople who have ‘cast’ out Becky wonder about taking in the two sons that represented Becky’s racial betrayal. This consideration to let…

eye on the white…

the reform went through adjustments to guarantee a decrease in discrimination, however, discrimination was still reported even towards native born workers. Even recently there have been many negative stereotypes against undocumented immigrants. Many white Americans claim that immigrants steal potential jobs from Americans, create crime and exploit government services. Because of this preoccupation, proposition 187 was created in hopes to restrict access to public services. In addition, within…

Than Slavery looks into the severe details of a ruthless period in our nation’s history when defeated white southerners and emancipated freed men rebuilt their area. They established new economic relationships and make new social statues in the late nineteenth century. Ironically, the cruel foundation of slavery overpowered the most intense racism violence. Slavery was a classification of harsh white control over most black people and it made black slaves more treasured in an innocently economic…

are being treated as servants because they do not have equal rights and opportunities as white men. In Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man, Ellison seems to be making a similar argument. Ellison believes that black men cannot economically advance without equal rights by showing throughout "Invisible Man" that white men are blocking the narrator 's advancement up the economic…

with beauty, body image and hair, “the continuance of the hegemonically defined standard of beauty is not only reify white European standard of beauty in the united states, but also that the marginalization of certain types of beauty deviate from the “norm” are devastating to all women” (Patton 1) In other words, Patton argues, the dominate definition of “normal” that the white Europeans say beautiful is, is not only changing the united states, but it is influencing people that the certain…