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murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and acquittal of vigilante George Zimmerman for the crime, #BlackLivesMatter became a call to action to stop the dehumanizing violence perpetrated against blacks. In response to this movement, #AllLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter have been cried out. They claim that Black lives aren’t the only ones that should be preserved, instead we should rally around protecting all lives. People hold entirely different views and interpretations of police misconduct. Purpose

Behaviors Created by Racism in Native Son In Richard Wright’s Native Son, race is the main source of problems for Bigger Thomas. Bigger is an African American man who is distrustful of whites and regularly acts out in violence. The novel is set in the 1940’s when racism was considered a social norm. African Americans could live out their dreams or choose for themselves and this makes many of them angry. Whites expected them to commit crimes and were quick to accuse them of anything. So, due

Being incapable of remembering the past nurtures a larger identity crisis within a person. It is difficult to truly know what you are––who you are––without taking your past into account. Inextricable from our identity, the past dictates how we are reared up, our place in society, society’s expectations of us, our expectation of society, and most importantly, our expectation of ourselves. Due to this inextricability, it is impossible to deny the past without simultaneously brushing off a part of ourselves

of class in order to better one race and not the other was prominent, and that is what the readings we have discussed bring to the light. Eric Lott, Ronald Takaki, and Evelyn Nakano Glenn focus on exactly what social class means to being white and black and how that was addressed within certain practices of either laws or labor. There was a, what you would call, “terrible transformation” between citizenship and labor itself. Indentured servitude quickly changed to slavery in their transformation to

As a non-white Muslim, I am a part of the group of people including women and African Americans that you have chosen to ridicule and undermine throughout your presidential campaign. Coming from Mississippi, I understand what it means to be a part of the minority. Attending a predominantly white high school, I was surrounded by many of your supporters who valued your oppression towards Muslims, women, and African Americans. Consequently, I disliked your opinion towards minorities because I am one

The argument proposed by researchers is that an alternative theoretical perspective centered on racial analysis could better inform leadership practices that improve the educational outcome for students of color (Brown, 2005; Gooden, 2012; Gooden & Dantley, 2012; Gooden & O’Doherty; Lopez, 2003; Young & Laible, 2000; Young & Lopez, 2011). Gooden and Dantley (2012) suggest that the use of CRT by school leaders can provide a prophetic voice that self-reflects to create agenda’s to change racist practices

attaining knowledge from our elders, and we learn about values in life. The society of Chicago are segregated by our history, media, and standards. The history we learn from our teachers in school, which is the segregation between the whites and blacks. I would never understand why people have to hate on each other, but I could see that hate leads to who is superior. Throughout all the history I have learned or what I had remembered about is how white people are the ones who are superior. They brought

show Underground, John Legend and his Get Lifted Film Co. are aiming to uncover another tale from Black History. The production company will join forces with Tika Sumpter to create a series based on Black Wall Street for WGN. This makes the documentary more relevant than any other reason. It could possibly be released around the same time of the dramatic series. Still early in the development stage, Black Wall Street could debut in 2018 if picked up as a series. African American Viewership A Nielsen

From the 1980 's to the present, African-American queer authors have progressively discarded their shame in order embark on sexual liberation. In considering Alice Walker 's "The Color Purple", Cheryl Duyne 's "The Watermelon Woman", and Ross Gay 's "Unabashed Catalogue of Gratitude", it is clear that these authors show a progressively unashamed embrace of same-sex desires while considering their position in the African American community. In the novel "The Color Purple", Alice Walker spoke quite

Black males in society have expectations to live up to and guidelines on how they should act. Although these expectations and guidelines vary individually from person to person, generally black men all are bound to the same rules. Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man explores the intersections of race and power, where this seemingly ideal black male is one that can outwit the white men. In Kiese Laymon’s novel Long Division, the ideal man is one that can survive white oppression by not coinciding