White people

from a young boy confirms the shocking extent to which this patriarchy has impacted upon the society. The Bluest Eye presents a realistic view of the options for African-American women in the 1940’s, which includes either getting married, working for white families, or becoming prostitutes. Growing up, Pecola witnesses a limited and idealistic view of women’s power and role in a marriage, displayed through Cholly’s oppression on Pauline in their abusive relationship. The highly descriptive…

or we are the person judging. Living in a society where white supremacy regimes race, class, and gender affect the types of privileges people have in comparison to others. Rights are always cut back when they conflict with the economic interests of the system. In the film Crash directed by Paul Haggis, intertwines the lives of people living in a culturally diverse city of Los Angeles. He highlights the stereotypes people have towards people who are from different races, class, and gender. This…

individuals. For instance the characteristics of white flight. White flight occurs when a neighborhood, a formerly white neighborhood begins to assimilate, even if individual whites don 't have particular or psychological hostility or racial animosity, they still have an economic motivation to move somewhere else. They know that others could make similar calculation and depart as well. It becomes a vicious circle where whites estimate that more whites are going to move when a neighborhood…

When people hear the word “justice”, it often invokes a positive connotation. It is a promise of protection and fairness. However, this may not always be the case when unreliable individuals are trusted with such power and responsibility. Twelve Angry Men, Serial, and the series Making a Murderer all bring to light the immense power of our underlying biases and stereotypes as they can cloud the truth. In Twelve Angry Men, members of the jury make assumptions of the defendant because he of where…

relationships. The relationship between Chingachgook and Uncas shows the strength and love unique to the bond of a father and son. Chingachgook truly beliefs in the potential of his son and his ability to one-day rule the Mohican people as he declares that “when Uncas follows in my footsteps, there will no longer be any blood of the sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans.” He shows incredible faith in his son, believing him to have the capacity to lead his family…

Imagine a world where people were belittled because they were a certain color or color. To be denied something since you were different. That was a world that Martin Luther King Jr. lived in. Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Minister and a civil rights activist. But he was not the only one. There were other activists such as Malcom X, Dorothy Height, and Rosa Parks. But Martian Luther King Jr. was the best civil rights activists because of his noble values, nonviolent protests, and…

slaves were considered as objects. Racism has been long constructed through the production of race and its relations to property, and we can see it through the notion of capitalism and the idea of whiteness. Colonialism is more than just a matter of white Europeans taking over Native lands and resources, it is also about the shaping of identities of whiteness and the ‘others’, the construction of race through capitalist ideology and property,…

hatred for white people. Molly continues to retain her feelings; because of this Molly can put her emotions towards overcoming the fight against the colonizers, whereas Okowonko and Billy can only focus on how much the white people have hurt them. The stories of these characters show that one must contain the…

cost for their dream farm in return for a job. Steinbeck crafts Candy’s character to develop the realities of discrimination for physical disabilities, old age, poor financial status, and low social standing; he uses these traits to establish how people…

and walk around in it” (Lee). Harper Lee essentially teaches her audience that viewing life solely from a personal perspective is limited. Humans possess complex characteristics, and it is unfair to view others with a ‘one-minded’ type of attitude. People fight with each other often since they are too consumed in their own thoughts and opinions to believe anything else. Moreover, relationships…