A Brief Biography of E.B. White

Jim White gave hope to 7 boys, and the whole town, when no one thought they had a shot. Everyone outside of McFarland thought that they were just some lame Mexicans from a nowhere land, but they have big dreams too.

Evelyn was born on May 1, 1924 in Washington, DC. Her father, William Boyd, had many jobs to help support her family. Her mother, Julia Boyd, was a secretary and also support her family. When she was just five years old, she and her family lived through the Great Depression which caused her father to have many jobs. A little after, her parents separated. Her mother had an older sister and moved in with her and brought Evelyn as well. She began to attend Elementary, Junior high, and high school as she got older. She wanted to

Bois was not allowed to join clubs and dances due to his skin color. With his

My chapter 5 project is about Dr. Elijah White. Elijah was born in 1806 in New York State. White is known for being a great physician and his missionary work in the Oregon Country. He attended medical college in Syracuse, New York. Sent by the Methodist church, he soon left New York to go to the Oregon country to be the physician and missionary of their operations there. He was sent to Willamette Valley, Oregon in 1836 to take part in Methodist mission there lead by Jason Lee, but had some difficulties on the way. Elijah and his family, wife and two kids, went to the Sandwich Islands arriving in 1836 and taught the Natives until May, 1837 and then continued to Oregon. The Sandwich Islands, discovered by Captain Cook, is present day Hawaii.

Ernest Everett Just was an African-American biologist and educator best known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially in fertilization.

The selection “Race Words” from Robert Jensen’s The Heart of Whiteness focuses on the white privilege, which violates the rights of citizens of different races because the United States historically has been a predominately white country. Jensen feels white people need to recognize they are not the main point of interest, because “white is not, by definition, the norm, the standard, the best. White is just white” (Jensen2). The author is pushing the idea to destroy white power, because it exploits the various people of different racial backgrounds. With research to support his conclusions, the author uncovers the biases in education, the job market, and people’s daily routines.

The failures in the reconstruction period during the civil war were mostly no one being able to agree. Some people wanted to punish the union others wanted to accept them back and move on.The black codes were added, and the constitution was changed the 13th Amendment Outlawed slavery,the 14th Amendment, Said that black people were citizens of the United States and that all people were protected equally by the law. The 15th Amendment, Gave all people the right to vote regardless of race. Another problem was once the slaves were free they didn't necessarily know what to do or where to go so many got stuck sharecropping, just causing them to go into poverty.

David R. Roediger displays the history of how the theory of “whiteness” has evolved throughout the years in America in his book, The Wages of Whiteness. According to Roediger, “whiteness” is much a constructed identity as “blackness” or any other. He argues that this idea of “whiteness” has absolutely nothing to do with the advantage of the economy, but that it is a psychological racial stereotype that was created by white men themselves. He claims that it is definitely true that racism should be set in class and economic contexts, also stating that “this book will argue that working class formation and the systematic development of a sense of whiteness, went hand in hand for the U.S white working class.” Roediger basically lays out the fact that “working class ‘whiteness’ and “white supremacy” are ideological and psychological creations of the white working class itself.

Rather than merely examining the affects of racism on people of color, the book turns its attention to whiteness and how a system of white privilege, supported and perpetuated by whites, also damages whites by inhibiting them from making meaningful connections with other human beings. Until I almost reached the end of this book I was uncomfortable and disturbed by the way the book made me feel. As a white male, I am aware of the pain that my ancestors have created for others to advance the free world. I have pain for those who suffered and disagree with actions that were taken by my white predecessors. But I believed that we are now in a much more advanced world where we have chosen the first black president and equality was a focus of most Americans. Identifying with my culture as currently being a white supremacist society is something I have never considered, or would not want to consider. In Neuliep, within the Coudon and Yousef’s Value orientations, we perceive the human nature orientation within the United States with people being essentially rational. This term, rational, can be somewhat subjective. And if we continue with the same value system, and look from ‘the self’ values, we foster our self-identities from the influence of our culture’s values. If we are to reflect truthfully to how our country evolved and what we ‘had to do’ to create our freedom by limiting the freedom of other, how would we then perceive

Finally, Ta-Nehisi Coates shows his support for this claim in his article “The First White President.” In this article Coates discusses how minorities, such as African Americans, have always been outsiders because of society’s racism, but with President Trump they lost all hope of becoming insiders. Before, with Obama as president, minorities had some hope of becoming insiders, “Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if the work twice as hard as white people anything is possible” which gave light to the possibility of change, but with a different society in charge, all minorities were now more outsiders than before (Coates). This is not a new division, for African American people have always been pushed to the outside.

Cleaver, E. “The White Race and Its Heroes.” in Souls on Ice, 65-83. New York: Dell Press, 1968.

On September 3, 1929, Whitey was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Whitey was one of six children born in a Roman Catholic family. He got his nickname for his whitish-blonde colored hair. Whitey grew up in the project of South Boston where he would find his criminal ways. Whitey’s first crime came just at the early age of 14 years old for stealing. However, Whitey would not learn from his mistake and his criminal record would continue to get worse from there. Whitey was arrested multiple times as a juvenile for things such as theft, fraud, assault and robbery. He would end up serving five years in a juvenile detention school for his delinquent acts. Once released from detention at the age of eighteen years old, Whitey would join the air force where his trouble still seemed to follow

In the episode “Pilot” from the television show Breaking Bad, the director uses excellent cinementography to portray the many themes of the episode. The viewer finds themselves following the story of a man named Walter White. Mr. White is a highschool chemistry teacher who is currently in his mid-life crisis. This crisis is made worse by his poor financial situation and his diagnosis of inoperable lung cancer, because of the little time he has left on the earth he decides to make a meth lab on wheels. The director uses cinementogrophy to help augment the somber theme as well as make it easier for the viewers to relate emotionally to Mr. White.

E.E. Cummings named the most popular voice of the twentieth century. His death struck the world and saddened many. Cumming, who wrote nearly 2900 poems, had a rather hard life. He inspired many to write poems.

Benjamin Zephaniah uses repetition and irony in “White Comedy” to shine light on racial tensions in the world. He emphasizes the word black and the negative words associated with it. The word white is used in place of it to show how one word can change the meaning of other words next to it. This poem helps the reader understand that seeing the earth in black and white could harm someone’s outlook on different world problems. We see that if you substitute the word black for white, not including white lies, it reveals that black has been associated with dirtiness or evil, while white is associated with good and cleanliness.