This free essay discusses the National Anthem Protest which was first started by Colin Kaepernick in the NFL and has now spread to many players both in the NFL and other major sports. We will provide you with example titles, related topics, an Continue Reading...
Racism in America: Where do we stand? From the time of the New World's discovery in the year 1492, racism has remained at the forefront of U.S. history. Even in the present day, it is reported that in America, one Black man dies from police confront Continue Reading...
Race as Social Construct The author of this report has been asked to offer a brief essay on whether race is a social construct or not. Some people associated race with biology. Others assert that there is a marked difference between race and ethnici Continue Reading...
Primary Source Analysis One of the key ideas of this document was to reveal to Americans the Klu Klux Klan's perception on white supremacy and also why they considered themselves to be the greatest race in the world. In particular, Evans employs pat Continue Reading...
Simone and the Role of the Black ArtistNina Simone said quite simply that the artists duty is to reflect the times, and so as a Black Artist she saw it as her duty to reflect the times that black people especially were going through in her day and ag Continue Reading...
Connection between the Haitian Revolution to Todays Violent Social UnrestIntroductionThe historical record confirms that, given enough time and motivation, people will rise up and slay their oppressors. The process may only require a few days, weeks Continue Reading...
Racism in professional sports has been documented for decades. However, only in recent years has it been more noticeable. The recent ‘Take the Knee’ Movement ahs sparked outrage on both sides as people fight for equality and others fight Continue Reading...
Analysis of Reporting of the Removal of the Robert E. Lee Statue by the Breibart News Newtwork and Salon.com With the proliferation of the internet, social media, and mobile technology, access to information today is far much easier than it has ever Continue Reading...
Bernie Goetz is a vigilante that shot 4 black male youths in 1984. The victims asked Goetz for five dollars to play video games and Goetz accepted. He stated he would give them each five dollars and proceeded to shoot all four, leaving one paralyzed Continue Reading...
.....police brutality against people of color has a long history in the United States, the Rodney King incident and the media attention it received promised to alter policy and public discourse. Yet police brutality continues to be a problem and thre Continue Reading...
PERCEPTION OF SELF & OTHERS While worrying about what people think about one's self and what is thought about others in return is a very complex exchange. It is an exchange where many to most of the people involved are feeling, reacting and jost Continue Reading...
Pecola Breedlove's experiences in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye symbolize the internalization of sexism and racism. On the contrary, Anita Hill's willingness to stand up and speak out against a powerful male official represents the externalization o Continue Reading...
Election of Obama and the Problems of the Social Dynamic There has not been any positive change in social dynamics as a result of the election of the first African-American president. If anything, race relations have worsened under the Obama Admini Continue Reading...
Sanneh (2015) writes that Baltimore's crime statistics are complex: while killings have decreased in the several years since Coates' childhood, the population level of the city has also dropped. However, it can be said that United States (U.S.) crim Continue Reading...
Role of Social Media in Social Movements The rapid technological advancements have played a major role in shaping today’s society, especially in terms of communication and information sharing. Technological developments have contributed to the Continue Reading...
Invisible Man and The Hate U Give Ellison’s Invisible Man and Thomas’s The Hate U Give are two very different books on race. Ellison’s novel is mainly pessimistic and negative (though realistically so) while Thomas’s young adu Continue Reading...
The 2012 Ken Burns documentary entitled The Central Park Five offers disturbing insight into institutionalized racism and the criminal justice system. Co-produced by Sarah Burns and David McMahon, The Central Park Five is about five children of color Continue Reading...
African-American culture flourished during the Harlem Renaissance. Although often characterized by and punctuated with the “double consciousness” of being both black and an American, the work of Harlem Renaissance writers and poets was va Continue Reading...
humans unique is the combination of attitudes and opinions that make up perspective. Development of perspective determines how an individual lives, learns, and what decisions the individual makes. The attitude of a person has behavioral, affective, Continue Reading...
Psychology Prejudice On numerous occasions, we have perceived people being treated in a different and disparaging manner simply because they emanate from a certain cultural or ethnic group and community. This is something that takes place every day Continue Reading...
Racial Profiling and Discrimination in America Slavery in the United States formally began during the late seventeenth century, when the country was still a British colony. The institution then expanded and intensified rapidly during the eighteenth Continue Reading...
1 Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was the big court case in the post-war era: it changed the dynamic of schools from one of racial segregation to integration. As Klarman (2007) notes, integration was going to happen naturally on its own, as the wa Continue Reading...
Plea Bargaining and the For Profit Prison Industrial Complex Any discussion of systemic racism in America would be incomplete without mentioning how race impacts the criminal justice system. It should not be surprising to anyone to hear that the blac Continue Reading...
Black Studies: MusicAI would name \\\"Alright\\\" by Kendrick Lamar as an example of a contemporary song that has become an anthem for the Black Lives Matter movement and that speaks to the perseverance and resilience of Black communities in the face Continue Reading...
Taking a Knee and the Cultural Problem at the Heart of Race Introduction The recent riots over the death of George Floyd has stemmed not so much from the killing of an unarmed black man by police but rather from the perception that the black communit Continue Reading...
Opportunity and the American Dream In spite of what Adams said, the American Dream still depends a great deal on birth or position. As Reifenberg and LeBlanc note, it all depends on one’s opportunity: a “general lack of opportunity affect Continue Reading...
Washington on August 28-29 On this day, more than 200,000 Americans congregated in Washington, D.C., for a civil demonstration referred to as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Planned and prepared by some civil rights and religious grou Continue Reading...
Strangers in Their Own Land, Arlie Hochschild presents what she calls the "great paradox" of American society: why ultra conservatives vote against their best interests. By almost all accounts, red states are poorer economically, have much Continue Reading...
No Justice, No Peace In Z-Ro’s “No Justice No Peace,” the hip hop artist states, “No justice, no peace It's us against police. Every time I turn around they shoot another brother down.” The argument made by the artis Continue Reading...
Why We Should Not Defund the PoliceCalls to defund the police have been growing since the death of George Floyd in 2020. But what does it actually mean to defund the police, and is it a good idea? Those who advocate for defunding the police do so bec Continue Reading...
The Tom Story Both Mudbound (2017) and Detroit (2017) seem to mobilize “the Tom story” in ways that seem significantly interesting and different to me. Neither film, for instance, really makes the viewer feel a kind of self-righteousness Continue Reading...
The broken cycle of make up for people of color Technology has played a significant role in the broken cycle of make up for people of color. The broken cycle of make up is a term reflective of the fact that when the technology for make up was first c Continue Reading...
