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documentary ‘White People.’ The filmmaker, Jose Antonio Vargas attempts to answer the question of what it means to be white, from a white person’s perspective, and to start a conversation on white supremacy. Responses he received to his question was that being white meant that there was the idea that things belong to you, the perception was that white people ‘good,’ and did not have to deal with prejudices, stereotypes, being hassled by police, or with systematic oppression. White people never…

In his poem The White Man’s Burden, Author Rudyard Kipling instructs white men to take up the “burden” of responsibility for the “sullen peoples/half devil and half child” who are affected by colonization. Kipling, was a well-known pro-Imperialist writer and a prestigious college graduate who had won many awards, including the Nobel Prize for writing. His tone throughout the poem is insultingly patronizing and reflects the popular attitude toward imperialism at the time. Despite widespread…

America symbolizes a whole world of opportunity for change. The boxing match between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson in 1908 caused many race riots between whites and blacks. Jack Johnson was the first black man to become a world heavy weight champion (Doss 47). Johnson also defended his title by defeating Jim Jeffries, otherwise known as “The Great White Hope” (Doss 47). Racial tension was very present in the early 1900’s. This fight symbolized a new beginning of racial tension but was also a huge…

White supremacy came about in the 1500s when European powers began a process of conquest and colonization. The English and French fought many battles in the French and Indian war. The English defeated the French and were able to control what we now call the United States of America. In the mid fifteenth century the Portuguese began taking African people as slaves out of Africa, beginning a process that led to the enslavement of millions of Africans in Europe and the Americas. Africans were made…

poll taxes. This is when the The Brown Man’s Burden by Henry Labouchére and The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling were published in 1899, emphasizing the idea that Imperialism and racism were negative and positive impacts in society at that time. The Brown Man’s Burden gives a lot through its title, giving the idea that Imperialism was abusive to the dark skin people. The White Man’s Burden states that the white colonizers believed on the idea that they had to force the African Americans to…

When it came to desegregating public spaces, schools were the hardest to desegregate. Eventually, the time came to where they would place a group of black kids in an all white school to show people that segregation was still being practiced. Reading and seeing short films where the guards would walk each student from class to class just to assure their safety. These students were living in terror on a day to day basis trying to get a better education. No matter the circumstances, nobody can…

superhighway” in Michael Kimmel’s book, Angry White Men. In Kimmel’s book, he addresses what he calls a collective of men who like Rick’s, fury is guiding them to come together and decide who to blame for their problems. Kimmel chimes in and decides that is an obvious answer to these men’s rage, it is the women in their lives. It is their mothers, their wives, their ex-wives, and the black women who steal their jobs. However, to Kimmel the answer to these angry white men from middle to…

Peggy McIntosh describes and lists the white privileges that an individual of that ethnic background obtains over an individual of a different ethnic background. McIntosh identifies some of the effects of white privilege and how it shapes her life. I, like McIntosh, am white and most, if not all, of what she lists additionally applies to my life. For instance, she states “I can criticize my government without fear and being seen as an outsider, I can go shopping alone assured that I will not be…

Thus, creating more of a sense of the criminal culture they speak of. The Article “Ghetto Blues: The Organizational Street Culture of Black “Masculine” Gang Members in a White World” by Armond R. Towns This article provides a greater awareness of street gang culture. In which he explains the history of street gangs such as the notorious Crips and their rival gang the Bloods. He also describes an african American masculine…

small/short frame and brown eyes. The only other information you can recall about her is that she is a cheerleader. You probably already have a first opinion on her, right? Stereotypes would say she is a “stupid blonde”, “ a prep”, or a “typical white girl”. You make these judgements and assumptions about a girl you don’t even know. Now imagine what I, the writer, look like. You don’t see the same girl described above do you? That girl you walked by is me. There is so much more to me than…