The Octoroon

The movie Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Hollywood based Australian director Phillip Noyce and released in 2002. The Screenplay of the movie is written by Christine Olsen on adaptation of Doris Pilkington’s book. Film is fiction based on fact, tells the real life story of three Aboriginal girls, Molly, Gracie, Daisy, who made 1500 miles nine weeks on food journey from Moore River Settlement to Jigalong. They fallowed the rabbit proof fence in order to return home to their mothers. The policies

Plessy v. Ferguson The Plessy v. Ferguson case was one of the most important and pivotal cases in the United States supreme court history. Due to both the content of the case, and the time in American history at which the case was argued, this case is thought to be vital in describing American History. The case itself originated when Homer Adolph Plessy, a 1/8 African American sat on a white car in a train. Plessy did in fact look white, and the authorities wouldn’t have realised that this

1. McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819), the constitutional questions asked were: Did congress have the right to establish a bank? Did the Maryland law unconstitutionally with the congressional powers? In 1816, congress chartered The Second National Bank of the United States. In 1818, Maryland passed legislation to tax the bank and cashier of the Baltimore branch bank James MucCulloch refused to pay the tax. This court case took place in the Marshall court, under federalist, Chief Justice John Marshall

There are many different ways that government has established the racial lines as we understand them in America. The one drop rule as discussed above was a result of the southern state legislatures and the development of Jim Crowe Laws. In Virginia that state passed some racial integrity laws an in 1924 one such act read in part as this “It is estimated in the state from 10,000 to 20,000, possibly more near white people, who are known to possess and intermixture of colored blood, in some cases

“absolutely false” regarding white motives of social welfare for disadvantaged indigenous people which reflect his voice of indignation. His forcefulness is further emphasized in his later listing if racist terms such as “cross breeds, quadroons, octoroons” to contend that the real reason behind this policy is “long ingrained racial contempt”, that is rooted in the certainty of white racial superiority intent on annihilating its “half caste problem, a pathetic sinister third race”. In response to John

The play I went to go to see was called An Octoroon written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. I have never been to a play at the Mixed Blood Theatre, so I was very excited to go and see this play. This play has been mentioned a lot lately by some of my theatre professors, and they said it would be very interesting. They also mentioned to not worry about the bunny too much, but I did. I am very glad I got to see this unique play with its many interesting views. The beginning of the play was very interesting

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, came to be one of the most influential antislavery books of the century. People claim Abraham Lincoln said it started the Civil War when he greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862 by saying "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” Its anti-slavery message, in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, sparked revolutionary levels of serious differences throughout the North and South, serving as an advocate for

Race, Ethnicity, and Prejudice-Online Project At one point in time the U.S. Census defined someone as a "negro" if they were one-sixteenth black. That is, if one of your sixteen great-great grandparents was of African descent (and the other fifteen were of "white" European descent), you were defined as "negro". In Jamaica, people believed to be of "pure" African descent are described as black. People who are bi-racial are usually described as "colored". In Brazil, there are even more differentiations

The ‘Blood Wedding’ was a hand theater performance. Unlike conventional western theater, ‘Blood Wedding’ was a combination of the western style of theater and culture of Latin America. Also ‘Blood wedding’ was a tragedy tried an innovative approach to tragedy storytelling. The themes for the performance was love and betrayal. The themes are slightly implied in the title; blood implies betrayal or death and wedding implies love. Unlike conventional western themes of love and betrayal or death. However

couleur libres), before the civil war living within the laws of the white men that surround them. Between 1810 and the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans a strange, Varying mixtures of the black race and French ethnics (half breeds, quadroons, and octoroons, mostly), they had a special place--or non-place--in Louisiana society. Even before the civil war, New Orleans has been a mixture of cultures and ethnics. They could own property (including slaves), but they could not vote; they had