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    be purchased by the black man's misery.”   Throughout history white men have been treating Africans and minorities with disrespect and hate. In the novels To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and Othello by Shakespeare all show the white man's perspective on racism. Black Boy by Richard Wright is an autobiographical story which demonstrates how deep racism existed for African Americans living in the United States. Richard Wright shows the ugliness of racial discrimination

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    Perception of the African American males African Americans males are considered dangerous based on a false identity, misconceptions, and misinformation that are available in the media; this includes but is not limited to rap music, news, and TV shows. This misconception can be traced as far back as slavery. The perception of blacks’ males as being dangerous began when the slave came to America on 1619. Due to the situation of being treated as property, to be freely bought and sold, and

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    Evolution and Diversity
 Evolution and Diversity The foundation for the theory of evolution was laid by Charles Darwin (Rose, n.d.). He developed hypotheses about natural selection which helped scientists develop the theory. Evolution is a theory and not a hypothesis because evolution has been proven by vast amounts of scientific data, research, and testing. The definition of a hypothesis is an educated explanation that needs to be researched and tested but has not yet been

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    journeys to Africa, they constructed and disseminated degrading stereotypes of African women based on the observations they had made abroad. Basing their perceptions of women off of European women’s bodies, these explorers noticed and commented on how African women’s bodies differed in many aspects—these disparities then became justifications for the differential treatment between these two groups of women. Because these African American women didn’t conform to the basic norms of womanhood that the explorers

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    “Why did they have to mix their women into everything? Between us and everything we wanted to change in the world they placed a woman: socially, politically, economically. Why goddamnit, why did they insist upon confusing the class struggle with the ass struggle, debasing both us and them-all human motives?” (Ellison 418). Though the husband does not mind in the end, the Invisible Man is repeatedly concerned over the strong control women seem to hold over him against his will. The narrator is frustrated

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    was a genre of popular African-American music came out in the early 1940. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans. At that time when rocking, jazz based music with a dense, persistent

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    Taylor Shockley Guns, Germs, and Steel A. YORK Period 4 Research: Write a short biography of the author, include information about his areas of research, books written, and prizes awarded. Jared Diamond is a professor at the University of California He wanted wrote Guns, Germs, and Steel, which won the Britain’s 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote Collapse: How Societies choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared has been on 22 expeditions to New Guienea and islands

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    referred to young black men as “super-predators”, called a campaign manager a “f*cking Jew bastard”, and called people in this country “illegal aliens” (Anderson 2016). Those are just a few of the wild things Mrs. Clinton has been accounted for saying. Now Donald Trump on the other hand isn’t afraid to make an ass of himself. He constantly puts inappropriate things on

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    white children developing a sort of identity crisis depending on their environment. This quote helps put the appropriation of African American culture in its simplest terms. In most cases people associate Hip Hop culture with African Americans. With that being said, many artist of different genres who attempt to have a more hip hop vibe, fall subject to appropriating African American Culture. Various artist have been appropriating culture in several different ways whether it’s through dance, sound

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    LeRoi Jones is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism, born in Newark, New Jersey, on October 7th, 1934. He developed an interest in poetry and jazz in high school and attended Howard University earning an English Degree. His parents were working class, elevator lift operator and social worker. In 1954, Jones joined the U.S Air Force for three years before being dishonorably discharged. After his military service, Jones founded Totem Press, which published

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