White people

With white privilege comes a certain power. Wielding white privilege in your fist gives you the ability to argue that historically black colleges are racist, to argue that you suffer as much as the next person of color does, to scream and rally “All Lives Matter,” all the while denying you have this sort of power. Many white people do not know of its power, they do not know of its strength. However, they possess and use this strength in ways which they do not even realize. Without the…

constant evolution of human culture, the presence of stories has remained a consistent and integral part of both society and its folk groups. Often passed verbally through the generations, stories act as an indication of the beliefs and concerns of the people, reinforcing their position and role in their communities. I investigated the transmission and belief of prediction stories in Polish families, where they are called przepowiednie. In this essay, I will discuss whether knowledge of these…

atop the gatepost. Proscenium box for a born first-nighter”, instead of saying theater stage she says a proscenium box. Another time, instead of saying that the only difference she knew of white and colored people was that the whites rode through town, but never stayed, she chose to say it differently; “white people differed from colored to me only in that they rode through town and never lived there.” Hurston’s diction was extensive enough in this essay that it may have caused even the reader…

Race and The Press Race has always been a delicate topic in America especially in light of recent police brutality incidents and deteriorating relations in the United States between People of Color(POC) and Caucasians after President Trump’s recent election. Journalism, especially the news, is a powerful and influential medium when it comes to the portrayal of a race as it shapes our perception. This can be seen in the movie “The Paper” when two young black men are suspected of a double murder…

called by White American Society. Hurston claims that although racism and other determents have happened in her life, she is “not tragically colored” (1041). Hurston refuses to undermine her place in the world. She encourages a sense of empowerment rather than playing the “victim card”. She describes her deep passion with instances of jazz music and bag metaphors to depict her unique style of empowering literature to African…

In the 1915 narrative, he says the man who spoke to them was white and spoke in the Lakota language. Short Bull only refers to the man by name or title once, but it is illuminating, as he calls a vision he had of Wovoka during a Ghost Dance the “the Son of God.” Though he does not specifically note seeing the stigmata as Porcupine did, the man who speaks to his group of the Dance tells them that due to his murder there are “many holes in me.” The idea of narratives being used for different…

seemed ' ' dangerous ' ' and pose a threat to the establishment with social order. Often time, individuals who fall victims into such are non-white racial identities. Being that it is acknowledgeable to assert, as Wacquant would conclude, that race has been constituted by white people ( wacquant ). As Micheal Ignatieff would convey, the idea of ' 'white race ' ' or rather ' 'whiteness ' ' does not just signify a set of genetic characteristic but rather an expression of race privilege and…

The hard-boiled detective, in noir tradition, is typically depicted as a lone wolf figure, one that upholds morality while balancing the corruption inherent in his line of work. He could be defined by his sexual potency, just as much as by his denial of pleasure. Raymond Chandler, in his 1950 essay, The Simple Art of Murder, outlines this archetype, with an authority appropriate to his foundational authorship. Chandler writes, “He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a…

a few black boys when with white girls. when the whites people found out about it, the girl would always say, the black boy make her do it.if the black boy wanted to live another day, he had to leave town that night and never came back again. sometimes the boy’s family suffer for his action. it was and still is a small town, everyone knew everybody black and white, but we didn 't go to school together. 3. It was a good place to live and grow up. I am so glad I was raised there, after I…

In A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, the idea that guidance is needed to help people who have falling in despair and they need to regain their sense of purpose. Chipping away at ignorance is needed so that the true potential of the individual is revealed. This ignorance is caused by the submission of the portion of society to a higher power who abuses said power. Grant Wiggins in the book A Lesson Before Dying, has started to lose his purpose of staying in his little town and teaching…