A Brief Note On Standard Women 's Rights

In her report, Veronica Loveday writes about Women’s Rights Movement, during World War two, and many restrictions women faced. Women’s rights movement in the U.S. begun in the 1960s as a reaction to the decades of unfair social and civil inequities faced by women. Over the next thirty years, feminists campaigned for equality, such as equal pay, equal work , and abortion rights. Women finally gained the right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920.

(p 64). The author states, “This interior space of self-definition draws us into the complicated gender and class spaces of racial othering. Thus, conceiving of Black people, men and women, as historical and material subjects,” (p 64).

Does being born connected to a certain race, class and culture define you as a person and the way you should or shouldn’t live your life. Does being in a certain class make you have class? In the paper I plan to give examples of how race, class and culture affected the African American culture.

“Among African Americans, skin tone is an important physical characteristic that creates divisions in the community and affects the quality of life. Like gender, a person’s skin tone is a visible physical trait that others immediately notice during social interactions and use to form judgments” The Light skin versus Dark skin issue that has been haunting the black community for centuries is deeply rooted from the times of slavery. Because of the influence of white supremacy, mixed race children received better treatment which resulted in the formation of a social stratification within the black community that impacted how they were treated by white people as well as the way they were treated within their own community.

In america the rights women have gained are good, on the other hand people still think there are still some things to overcome. In most places women have had the right to vote. Some say that women remain at a disadvantage in education as well and women continue to make up more than most of students who drop out before completing the fourth grade, as well as making up for half of the world is one billion adults. Each year the number of females entering into higher educational programs and universities increases greatly. Another great thing for women is that of own body rights. In many nations abortions are legal and women have a wide variety of different things , such as birth control. This right in many nations remains as a central continuing debate issue.

The African American group has been seen to have lower status in contrast to white individuals. Today, the stratification or chain of importance contrast between blacks and whites is still present.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Pride Movement denoted another bearing in black personality. The Civil Rights Movement brought about expanded instructive and business opportunities and dynamic political contribution. The consolidation of the Black Pride Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and the more present concentrate on social roots has liberated numerous “African Americans from the "slave mentality" that continued to haunt the African American culture long after emancipation” (Ch. 6 Law Enforcement Contact with African Americans, n.d.).

This presented a big problem to those making decisions at various institutions. In fact, the most recent case is where the United States Army stopped using the term Negro in any of its official documents and other institutions proposed that the terms ‘African American’ and ‘black’ can be used interchangeably. The truth is that the blacks are viewed differently from the blacks. The blacks are viewed more negative than the African Americans due to the difference in economic and social classes. Hence, the blacks can be viewed as having colder characters and are less competent.

Many are unaware of the effects that race has played in their lives over the years. Some may not understand its implications, but are very oblivious to it. Race can influence such things like attitude and behavior. Nowadays being white or black means something more than just a Crayola color. No longer are they just colors, they are races with their own rules and regulations. People of color have been inferior to the white race for centuries. In their own way Zora Neale Hurston shows this concept in her story “How it feels to be Colored Me” as does Richard Wright in his autobiographical sketch “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow”.

After reading from the excerpts of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman I have concluded that the situations of women, as far as rights are concerned, have indeed improved vastly. However, even though their situation has been amended and they are now afforded the same equal rights as men, not all women take advantage of these rights. A fraction of women still care more about their own physical beauty, appearance, and the prospect of finding a husband than anything else. Furthermore even, some of the more juvenile women will even occasionally go so far as to play dumb, thinking to attract the affection of men; while others get so self-obsessed with their appearance that they don’t even have to act in order to be received as dim witted or

You will have blacks who are will criticize other blacks who behave or believe differently than they do. A friend told me of how a “ghetto” black girl passed judgement on a black girl from the city because she dressed white and sounded white.

As a child in a predominantly white area, many people said I acted white—along with many other black kids. How is it that as a dark skinned black woman I could act the color white? Well, white wasn’t simply referring to color or heritage rather any and all positive attributes a person would ever wish to possess. They saw my knowledge, my intelligence, my solid upbringing, the manner in which I carried myself as white. Furthermore, my positive traits made me worthy of whiteness. It was quiet bothersome that anything positive made me white, ignoring the fact that many black people were like myself and I was not an anomaly. However, the moment I became angry, did something bad or incorrect, they would say “there’s the black in you.” This thought process isn’t unique to my small town. Unfortunately, many people think like this. The image of blackness has been painted as disgraceful and negative, while the image of whiteness is painted as elegant and positive. Society has socially constructed whiteness as the goal for success, by disparaging blackness.

while the gap between whites and collective blacks does not shrink. The authors argue that in group versus out group hostilities will lessen between the whites and honorary whites, however this will only increase their in group size compared to the out group of the collective blacks and only create new tensions while strengthening old ones between these two groups. This will be because the collective blacks will feel more segregated from their lighter skinned counterparts. This type of grouping will only allot the whites more power as honorary whites’ participation within social society will rely solely on their white superiors for their approval. Maxine Leeds Craig argued in “The Colors of an Ideal Negro Beauty Queen,” that one way to

The number of times I’ve heard “You don’t act black!” spill from someone’s mouth is astonishing. It raises the question: What does it mean to be “black”? I ponder, thinking over the several physical and mental attributes that make me who I am. Despite my mixed ethnic descent, I undoubtedly consider myself black. Some will say that I have been blessed with “light skin” and” curly hair”; Others will never let me live down the African ancestry that so clearly runs through my veins. I have experienced the racial prejudice that pervades society, but at the same time have experienced the benefits of more Eurocentric appearance.

The country, Croatia, is where the focused group is located. Croatia is located in southeastern central Europe, and has a population of over four million. Croatia wasn’t considered an independent country until 1991. It was under control by different powers throughout history including “the Hungarians, the Turks, and the Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg dynasty” (“Croats”). Croatia was a part of groupings when having an upper ruling, and this was part of Croatia’s history before becoming an independent country because of the Croats; people that settled in the region that eventually became Croatia. They were part of the nation Yugoslavia which were a monarchy and then a communist country. Another group