Literature Review: In the past few decades, the United States of America has come a long way by means of industry, exports, economy, and development in every field. After coming out from the days of slavery, the government proposed equal rights for everyone free of race, color, or breed. But still, racism is present as the most pressing issue in...
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The concept understood as race is the foundation of a continuous socio-political structure that entraps Black people within the racist confines of the United States of America. While race is a social construct that is continually being challenged, the othering of Black folks has not been dismantled since the involuntary migration of enslaved Africans. This systematic structure helped produce emotions...
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The refusal to abide by certain laws or to pay taxes, as a nonviolent form of political protesting, is civil disobedience. These types of protests were very common during the 18th century or the Romanticism period of literature. Many civil disobedience acts powered pieces of literature still known to us today, for instance, “On Civil Disobedience” by Mohandas K. Gandhi,...
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Introduction Reconstruction, a pivotal chapter in American history, unfolded between 1865 and 1877, following the Civil War's end. This era aimed to rebuild the nation and integrate freed slaves into society as equal citizens. It was marked by significant political, social, and economic challenges. The federal government introduced measures to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans, leading to...
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Martin Luther King Jr. wanted life to be fair, enjoyable, memorable, equal, and loving, he wanted to make the world a better place. He went out to people of all nationalities, backgrounds, and ethnicity to make sure that they knew his message because he wanted to spread the word of love and equality. King’s passage in “I Have a Dream”...
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Throughout American history, there have been many significant events that have shaped America and where we stand today. Going back to the 1600s, this was the time that introduced slavery in North America as well as leading the concept of racism to form. Racism is a huge controversy in America and one of the big main ideas that have led...
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The common theme I’ve seen present in both ‘Do the Right Thing’ by Spike Lee and ‘Fires in the Mirror’ by Anna Smith is that racial tensions are more complicated than black and white. Cops beating up colored people for no reason and teenage girls throwing eggs at the elderly Chinese as seen in ‘Do the Right Thing’ or the...
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The issue of racism and racialization is an age-old conflict originating from the colonialization era that uses prejudice and discrimination as the justification for differential techniques of othering as inferior (Thobani, 2007). Although racism is perceived to not be predominant today, it is still a modern phenomenon that feeds off of its invisibility by inequalities and racial discriminations being overlooked...
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In this work, I will analyze the works of Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Jefferson and review the strategies used in their works. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ is addressed to several Clergymen, explaining the actions that led him to the jail. Fellow Clergymen called King ‘unwise and untimely’ for his work and ideas of...
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This essay will explore the effect of Martin Luther King’s speeches in ‘Selma’. His emphasis on community power shows the success of peacebuilding from the bottom-up. Indeed, the technique of non-violent protests and the media’s portrayal of the aggression protestors faced forced political action at the highest levels to occur. In ‘Selma’, King delivers his speeches in the distinct Southern...
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Imagine not being allowed to sit in the same room, use the same bathroom, and water fountain as some classmates of different colors. In the early and mid 1900’s the mass majority of public schools were all segregated all across America. The topic of desegregation was a huge and massive battle. A battle that could have been fought much more...
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Everyone at some point in their life has to move, it can either be for university or for work-related purposes. There are many elements a person considers when it comes to deciding where they would want to rent/buy a house. These elements could be the closeness to their work building, the rate of crime, the price of the house, or...
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Together sixty-five percent of kindergarten classrooms are made up of African Americans and Hispanic individuals. On the contrary, only eighteen percent of them are being admitted into gifted and talented programs (par. 5). America's school system and student population remain segregated, by race and class. Inequalities still remain in schools; this is not just the result of poorly managed schools;...
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The United States has continuously been a diverse but segregated nation. This has developed American politics extremely. Danah Boyd's article, “Why America is Self Segregating”, he briefly explains the unraveling of two historical institutions through social, racial, and class-supported differences of social networks. “Displacing Democracy Economic Segregation in America”, by Amy Widestrom she discusses that less forunate residents are at...
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In Australia’s society it’s essential to have respect for others rights, needs and viewpoints due to the idea of all people are created equal and that government or society should not unjustifiably restrict what individuals can think, say or worship, whom they associate with and how they enjoy the rewards of their work. Racism is defined by the Australian Human...
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Fighting for Civil Rights Jeffrey Zhang What do civil rights mean? It is the civilian rights we have. Let’s go back to the past when it was segregation, where blacks and whites had a wall between them. That was a bad time. Now, when we look at it, we say how cruel it was and how horrible it was. But...
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Introduction: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (15th January 1929-4th April 1968) was one of the activists and prominent leaders in America. He was known for his African-American civil rights movement. Unlike many philosophers, Martin Luther King not only posed ideas just for the sake of displaying intellectual ability, but he believed only in the philosophies which have a substantial impact...
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Brownness as a Flaw Mexican Americans have encountered segregation and discrimination of their civil rights in the United States in the 19th century. At that time, whiteness was a huge social structure that meant more than the color of skin, and white people had the upper hand to be rewarded, through American citizenship, a packaged system of privileges and opportunities....
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Radical White Supremacy From the ashes of a deceased Confederacy rose the newly obtained freedom of the former slave. In his wake, the freedman brought with him uncertainty and disunion, laying the foundation for one of the widest ideological divides in American history – the Era of Reconstruction. Initially a period of rehabilitation and effort to pay reparations to the...
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Defining Cults in American History Historians and philosophers have long debated if there can ever be a true definition of a “cult.” Some have said the difference between a cult and a religion is about two or three generations. Once a cult has survived for that long and appears that future generations will subscribe to the same beliefs, it makes...
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Intercultural Communications Contemporary Tensions Intercultural communication is communication between two individuals or groups of different cultural origins or social groups and how culture affects communication between the two individuals or groups. It can be defined as a concept and competence that individuals or groups should acquire to facilitate better communication. Acquiring intercultural competence equips one with qualities that can enhance...
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The Ku Klux Klan is a hate group that goes aganist multiple ways of life like being gay, being a color that isnt white, and certain religion. Beginning in the civil war by a few generals. Being very well known throughout the public knowledge they’ve stayed a very stable group without much issue of being taken down, although they avoid...
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In reality however, when considering the hypocrisy and lack of evolution after his initial revival of the organisation, he was not as important as he suggested. His ‘knights’ exercised the lynching of accused murderer Leo Frank for killing young factory worker Mary Phagan after not receiving a life sentence. Despite gaining Northern industrialist support as a direct result, this was...
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Biologists, geneticists, and physical anthropologists, among others, reached a common understanding that race is not a scientific concept rooted in aperient biological differences. However, race is still commonly and popularly defined in terms of biological traits, such as differences in skin color, hair texture, and other physical attributes, often are perceived as expressions of differences in intelligence, temperament, physical prowess,...
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Unifying the Races - Assimilation Versus Segregation When the Thirteenth Amendment was signed and officially ended slavery, one would think that this would begin the steady reunifying of the union. However, after the slaves were free, American entered a state of living that would continue to divide the people of this country. This state of living was segregation; it caused...
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Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King were two very similar orators who wanted to achieve almost identical goals. Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States and the leader of the Anti-Slavery Republican Party. His speech was delivered on the nineteenth November 1863 mat Gettysburg during the ‘Great Civil War’. His primary objective was to abolish slavery and he...
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Simeon Wright, Emmet Till’s cousin once wrote “It never occurred to me that Bobo would be killed for whistling at a white woman”. This quote could not be any truer for how Emmett Till faced his murder in Money, Mississippi after playing a prank on a white lady. Till’s story created recognition on the bigotry that was pervasive in the...
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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy in 8th grade at the McCosh school, was visiting his cousins in Money, Mississippi during August 1955. He was originally from Chicago, and he lived with his mother. On August 24, he went into a grocery store to buy a pack of bubble gum while in Mississippi. On his way out, he whistled...
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On August 31, 1955, the body of Emmett Till was found at the bottom of the Tallahatchie River in northern Mississippi. Beaten to a pulp and with his eye gouged out, his face was disfigured almost beyond recognition. His great-uncle Moses Wright may have only recognized him because the 14-year-old boy was still wearing his father’s initialed ring. News of...
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Racial Passing from the twentieth century is still relevant in today’s America. People of black ancestry racially passing as white still do it because they still reap from the benefits of doing so. A common phrase in the Caribbean about racial passing is, ‘it is a mixture of what you gain by being white and what you lose from being...
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