After Mom's Complaint By Mcgraw-Hill

The article “The Negro Digs Up His Past’’ by Arthur schomburg on 1925, elaborates more on the struggles of slavery as well as how history tend to be in great need of restoration through mindfully exploring on the past. The article, however started with an interesting sentence which caught my attention, especially when the writer says ‘’The American Negro must remark his past in order to make his future’’ (670). This statement according the writer, explains how slavery took away the great deal freedom from people of African descendant, through emancipation and also increase in diversity. The writer (Arthur Schomburg) however, asserts that “the negro has been throughout the centuries of controversy an active collaborator, and often a pioneer, in the struggle for his own freedom and advancement” (670).

According to Barbara Fields “Euro-Americans resolved the contraction between slavery and liberty by defining Afro-Americans as a race...” (Fields 114). Even though, Jordan has a strong argument about slavery and racist ideology; Fields complicates this when introduce new ideas of racist cause by salve. In Fields’s research, she gathers information and proves to us how slavery was the cause of discrimination by race. She starts us off with an example, about a man who lost his job when he made a joke about racism (Fields 95). In her research, she argues that segregation started when laws were made about servants and slave interaction (Fields 98). She points out how race and slavery soon became hereditary. “After the boom had passed the landowners began buying slaves in large numbers…” this was when slavery importation increased rapidly (Fields 102). As time went by the Europeans found a way to keep slavery going on by giving more freedom to the servants and less to the slave. Race ideology began to grow as more servants gained freedom and purchased slaves to work for them. In all race discrimination grew as different generations grew within the windows of the new law. She ends her research with an example of a woman and a son; it’s about a son who called a friend black, but the mother laughed and said: “No; he’s brown”. Fields then explain how the son’s youth and innocence was soon corrupted. In the end, she came to the

Hannah Guthrie was a second year English major student when this article was posted in 2010. Hannah being a student questions her creditably because she isn’t an expert and nor does she have a reputation for being advocate on stopping racism. She was a writer for the UCI’s “New University”, which is a school news paper often stretching to seek attention from the media and other forms of

“The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter- ‘tis the difference between the lightning bug and lightning.”(Mark Twain). Mark Twain, the author of an extraordinary yet controversial novel; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had a great way of capturing moments in time and bringing them to life through the use of meaningful and direct diction. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been a vexed novel for it 's a use of the “N-word”. However, many scholars and associations have devised a “solution” for this problem such as, completely banning the book, creating sanitized versions, or even replacing the book for another American literature novel. “What is so wrong

Every since the start of slavery, in 1619 and all the way up until now 2016, people have been socially, religiously, and sexually profiled by their race. It could be something just as simple as where they come from, how they talk, their beliefs, or the color of their skin. We all are very aware of the history of slavery and how things went on in that time. I was far more horrific and blood-curdling back then. Unlike today protesting, rallying, and fight back was not an option back then, of course some stood up for what they believed in those were the boldest. Those who dared to challenge the authorities were the bravest, those who sat back at waited for a change were the patient.

Without reading these fascinating articles one might never realize the complexity and controversy surrounding history textbooks. I for one, would have never guessed that racial equality wasn't truly displayed in textbooks until well after the 1960’s. Textbooks, it seems, have been used for almost nothing but profit and political gains and due to this have been revised to fulfill the needs of the targeted. Leaders and state boards declare what they want to appear in textbooks and by doing this the students view is limited to that textbook. This allows leaders and the elected to mold their people and their nation, sometimes for worse and sometimes for better. Even though much turbulence

Someone of color given the title “slave” would not have been identified as a human being in the 1800s but rather another person of property. African Americans were

Race is about differences and as times change so do differences “We are always different, negotiating different kinds of differences.” In Establishing differences between ethnicities the idea of the black slave gets regurgitated frequently, by likening minorities with ‘blackness’, which trivializes them in order to make them subservient. For example, during colonial times the English sought to establish the Irish as an inferior minority therefore, propaganda was produced which animalised the Irish, making them ape-like to represent them as moving towards ‘Blackness’. Likening them to ‘blackness’ made them seem less ‘white’ and therefore less ‘human’. Charles Kingsley said

Race — as a social construct, a pseudo-biological concept, and an identifying demographic — has undeniably been ubiquitous in the history of human otherness. In particular, the ascribing of racial identities to a group, or “racialization”, has played a vital role in the conception and development of minority groups. This phenomenon continues to shape ideas about race and ethnicity, albeit in less dramatic ways than in the antebellum South. Nevertheless, people blinded by privilege claim that they are “colorblind” or that society has moved into a “post-racial” paradigm. It is, therefore, especially relevant to examine processes of racialization that have defined and maintained the social concept of race throughout history. A prominent historical instance of racialization that influenced modern-day race identity is the objectification and commoditization of black people in Southern slave markets of the antebellum era. As a consequence of the chattel principle, which defined a slave’s existence as property of a slaveholder, Black Americans’ identities were permanently altered by those who used their positions of power to subjugate and dehumanize them, either deliberately or tacitly. Specifically through association between race and physical or mental ability, and false medicalization of issues in slave populations, slave traders, slaveholders, and others who endorsed chattel slavery perpetuated the racialization of black slaves.

How many times have we heard that because a White American had no direct involvement in African enslavement, they could not possibly be a beneficiary of any privilege stemming from racial inequity? That is, because they do not practice overt racism and receive a monthly one-thousand dollar check for being white, they could not benefit from institutional racism. Of course, this is not something all White Americans assert. But due to miseducation in the home, many White Americans become indoctrinated in inaccuracies about the past, the present, and the future of the United States of America. Often, caretakers of white children overlook conversations about white privilege, thus distorting their children’s perspective of the outside world.

After the Civil war, when companies and factories started to become once again dominant, the same men who had helped succeed these had long been forgotten and moved on from one to the other. The trials that men were facing in jail sentences in the early 1900’s were the same trials used on slaves. Green Cottenham lived through these hardships his entire life. The rising up Black leaders in Washington D.C., gave the southern white man an excuse to physically assault these men and women. These vast times, were viewed as the slaughtering of Jews during the holocaust, it was if our country was under dictatorship with the white race being the leader. Those who were not white were shunned and used for the hard work we did not want to do. The millions of slaves who went through this time are just memories and a part of history, that’s all these men and women were viewed as, nothing

In a New York Times article, Jennifer Harvey responds to the question, “Are We Raising Racists?” This article gives feedback on how we should raise the next generation but, the author of this article clarifies that she is not the perfect parent and merely gives suggestions for people to follow. Various themes in the article that related to what we learned in class. The first theme was one of the five fallacies of racism, ahistorical fallacy. The author introduces this theme when she revealed to her daughter that George Washington owned black slaves even though he was recognized as a great leader in history. The daughter questions why we celebrate a slave owner as a great man. Ahistorical fallacy is a biased view on history and omits significant

The word “Nigger”, also known as the “N-word”, was replaced with the word “slave”. The debate over whether this book is racists is not going to change just by placing one word with another. Also, by replacing “nigger” with the word “slave” the author is implying that “slave” and “nigger” are synonyms, which is not completely factual. The word “nigger” is used to describe a black person, but by placing this with “slave” one is saying that all slaves were black which was not factual. It is thought by many that all slaves were black, but many types of races have had a part in slavery.

With today’s society, racism is not as extreme as it was back in the 1930’s. Racism has twisted in meaning and is either over exaggerated or address appropriately. Culture has distorted the meaning by taking the smallest of comments, or gestures, and completely altering them into an inaccurate assumption. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird an unfair trial was made.

In Jackie Horne’s article “Harry and the Other,” she explains that critics of J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter series indicate, “Rowling’s depiction of Dobby and his fellow elves contains uncomfortable echoes of many of the stereotypes held by whites of enslaved African Americans” (80-81). Discriminatory thoughts and actions serve as the base for stereotypes. Discrimination, defined by Ormerod as “an unfair action or behavior that results in negative outcomes for targeted social groups or their members” (“Social Discrimination” 1630), is evident in both the house-elves in the Harry Potter series and with African Americans in the United States today. Many individuals regard the commonness of discrimination in the modern world as a minor issue