The White Girl: A Short Story

What exactly is an ideal lifestyle? The answer is different for every person because some people desire more and some desire less. In the short story “Black Girl” by Sembene Ousmane, the reader learns about Diouana’s determination to climb the social hierarchy ladder. As the protagonist, she indulgences in the thought of moving away from her hometown in Africa where she has been working as a maid for the last few years for a rich white family. Her vision of the perfect lifestyle is living in France, where she imagines herself making millions and bathing in fortune. Unfortunately, things don’t always appear as they seem. The story illustrates that when one thinks of their ideal lifestyle they mainly rely on their personal experience which

Harriet Jacobs wanted to tell her story, but knew she lacked the skills to write the story herself. She had learned to read while young and enslaved, but, at the time of her escape to the North in 1842, she was not a proficient writer. She worked at it, though, in part by writing letters that were published by the New York Tribune, and with the help of her friend, Amy Post. Her writing skills improved, and by 1858, she had finished the manuscript of her book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Whites, particularly white women, are the most likely to be framed as victims of crime,

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

Within this excerpt, Shannon Sullivan argues that habits go a long way in instilling the concept of how white people uphold white privilege in ways that they repress people of color by refusing to recognize that they are contributing and benefiting from white domination. She argues that the unconscious racism of white privilege equals to the conscious racism of white supremacy. Sullivan shows that whites claim that it is their ignorance that causes them to appear to be racist. They lack knowledge in people of colors’ interest, value, culture and the biological basis for racial categories. She states that those perceived with racists mindsets believe that if they are given more accurate information about the lives, worlds, and values of people

Another example of a victim of the white controlled society was Deborah. Deborah was brutally raped by a gang of white men and was barren for the rest of her life as a result. The public shame and humiliation that followed also drove her into becoming an outcast in the community. Instead of being sympathized for and cared for, she was looked down upon as dirty and an easy sexual target, “When men looked at Deborah they saw no further than her unlovely and violated body,” (Baldwin 68).This is more of an issue of race than sex because a white woman who was raped would never have faced the shame that Deborah did. As Estelle Freedman of the Washington Post explained, “After emancipation, the presumption that African American women had no say over

Harriet Jacobs, in her book “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, narrates the real life and experiences lived by a black girl who born as a slave. In this book, Jacobs shows slavery as something that violates all the rights and principles from the blacks. The way this book is written makes the story more believable. The purpose of Jacobs was to make credible what she has written about the slaves at that time. The author used stories from real slaves and examples so her audiences, white people from the Northern, have knowledge of what black slaves were going

She reaches for the lock and he bites off her arm, and then the people start spewing out of the windows and each is a rat dragging a building and screaming for her to unloose them. She wakes up and, afraid that she might get used to all that he hat and fears about the street, resolves to keep fighting and get away. She thinks of an afternoon the spring before when she had seen a crowd around a man who had been stabbed by a butcher on Lenox Avenue and

Suddenly, Boomer was on his feet, barking loudly. Alma shifted her gun so she could use it as a weapon. Three white men were staring down at her and she felt as though the skin on her back had tightened. She didn’t recognize one of them, but two of the men she had

she still offered her help to the members of the family in return for their

Narcissa grew up in a devoted Presbyterian family, in a village of Prattsburg, New York. Narcissa was an enthusiastic and highly influenced young woman, reading popular biographies of American missionaries in the 19th century. Influenced by Harriet Newell, an evangelist who traveled and worked in India, Narcissa was captivated by Harriet’s spiritual struggles, letters and sermons. As a young teenager, she felt life was slipping away, time was wasted, as she was ready to adventure out and start ministering the word of God.

The first article, published in 1993, deals with the struggle of poor white women after the civil rights movement. The article focuses on the life of women and black men during the Ku Klux Klan era.

Selina struggled to break out of her handcuffs as she cried out, hoping someone could hear her. The room was pitch black as she began to cry, trying to get out of the chair in any way, hoping the screws would bent or break. She knew it was useless, she wasn't that strong. But she wouldn't let Bruce have what he wanted so easily. She would fight him. Fight his grasp, fight everything, even if it meant letting him do it. She would not enjoy one bit of it. With that in mind, she heard the door open and a blinding light from the stairway before the room was illuminated by the ceiling lights as he flicked the switch on. She blinked away as her eyes began to adjust. Bruce was standing there, holding his black suitcase, as he turned around and closed the door before walking over to her. He laughed as she started to move again, trying to get away from him, as she was locked into place. "Now now, Selina. You know better" he laughs, opening the suitcase as he leans inside, going through random items as he pulls three packaged dildos out.

Chirp Chirp the birds are chirping and, Pre is walking home alone from school to her granny’s house since her mom and dad are on a cruise ship to Hawaii. When all of a sudden she heard a baby crying, “waa waa” at 3:00 P.M. In Los Angeles, Beverly Hills California, when she looked back she didn’t see anyone. At that point she was swollen because someone had kidnapped her and hit her with something that felt like a bat. Though she didn’t see anyone who hit her so it wasn’t a person. It was a ghost!! Thun dun thun dun!!!

The old album was snapped shut about the time the Swede arrived. Peach 's gleeful rush to meet him raised the bank robber 's eye brows. "How had he missed this" he thought? The couple strolled the garden arm in arm for some time. When they finally came inside the Swede was red faced knowing he 'd been busted.