White Noise

Hernandez v. Texas, was discussed. Peter Hernandez was convicted of the murder of Joe Espinosa. His legal team, Gus Garcia and Carlos Cadena, used his case to show that juries were neither impartial nor a jury of his peers. The jury consisted of white males. Hernandez’s legal took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. Even there they were not escape discrimination because of their ethnic background. They were made to use a bathroom that was of lesser quality and entirely segregate form the…

class. Both these women, though originating from an African-American background, were, due to their light skin, intentionally ‘passing’ as white women to fit into the white-dominated society of the time. However, this process left both Irene and Clare stuck choosing between the two cultures and races. The confusion of choosing an identity from either black or white usually left negative effects on these women. By providing insight into the relationships between Irene and Clare compared to their…

that happened in the past, and the aftermath of it has had an enormous effect. Without a doubt the Black Holocaust is one of the most disturbing things that America has done. The hatred and racism of black people succeeding has always seemed to hurt white people. We know about the terrible things done in the Holocaust because we are educated on it during school with pictures and novel. It’s sad that America has buried the Black Holocaust from history to make themselves look better. I believe…

From a White-perspective, race has always been an issue that affects “the other” – Blacks, Asians, and other “minority” racial groups. It was assumed (and largely still is) that whites dominated other races both qualitatively and quantitatively. For this reason, the societal status of these marginalized races have always been determined by whites. Historical evidence in the form of slavery, public segregation, forced migration and other racially-based abuses of minority races demonstrate this…

Black men were always accused of hitting on and raping white women, however Wells said this was backwards. She claims that white men were the rapist, and their victims were black women (Pinar 157-158). Wells was a very outspoken woman, and this led to many people wanting her to die, especially when she began to write about white men raping black women because it was something that not many people actually spoke about publically at the time…

Americans and whites has always been distinct, from the birth of the nation all the way up to the civil war the enslavement of African Americans had been a way of life. Even after African Americans had secured their freedom they would still be discriminated against through unjust social restrictions, placed upon them by their white superiors. Through these social restrictions the African American people came to see themselves as inferior and helpless compared to the white race, the whites on the…

ties to changing racial relations in workforce. Opposition to the changing face of the common worker propagated great dissention throughout the white community. Race acted as the dominant factor in an individual’s work ethic. In the early 19th century, all minorities were marginalized into labor undesirable and considered to be “work repugnant to the white man.” However, some races were preferred over others. In a special report by the Washington State commissioner of Labor in 1915, it is stated…

Another article was about Black people in media production. This article was written by Zeinabu Davis. Davis speaks on her experience as a Black woman in media production that makes movies. She explains how more times than not in movies, African American people are portrayed as being the bad person, with a bad reputation, especially Black men. She explains how Black people are not included in many shows, movies, etc. Davis says that she has to tell her children not to behave like the Black…

Robinson was accused of raping and beating a white woman named Mayella Ewell. According to Mayella and her father Tom raped, beat, and then ran when he was supposedly caught by the father through the window. It’s during the trial that we see Finch showcase his understanding of equality and his colorblindness…

Since early history, slavery has existed. We start to begin to see slavery-like actions when Columbus founded the new world. He thought that the natives would be easy to take over due to their lack of religion. But the Columbian exchange was the event that introduced African American slavery when African slave owners would trade slaves for other goods. Those slaves were brought into the new world or what is today, America. Years after the thirteen colonies gained their independence from the…