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ENGL 102-AS21
29 September 2017
ENGL 102-AS21
29 September 2017
Summary of “Talkin Black in a White Man’s World” by Samy H. Alim
In the chapter, “Talkin Black in this White Man’s World,” from Samy H. Alim’s scholarly monograph Roc the Mic Right, Alim argues for “linguistic equanimity- the structural and social equality of languages-”(51) and how racial tensions and linguistic supremacy currently exist between Black Language (BL) and White Mainstream English (WME).
Alim discusses how the gentrification of the community is correlated with the demolition of the only high school in Sunnyside, CA. Gentrification is the assimilation of Black People to the White middle-class taste as the
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White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
White supremacy is a system that has been used to hold white dominance and superiority over minorities. White supremacy and white privilege has existed for centuries because many Americans believe in this ideology that one race is superior to others. Even though racism and white supremacy are no longer as apparent as they used to be, having Trump in presidency is resurrecting Grantism. As stated, “The danger of Grantism, and its implications for both America and the world, is very real” (Serwer, 19). The real concern is those that choose “white purity” over “diverse democracy,” and when Americans choose it to be that way a crisis follows.
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son. He symbolizes white philanthropy when he takes Johnson under his care. On the night when Henry wanders around the town people see his face, and get terrified. The symbolism of white supremacy is reflected when Johnson is imprisoned. And in subsequent suggestion to Dr. Trescott to, "bring a-er-mask, or some kind of a veil". Henry is perceived as a problem when four men, including Judge Hagenthrope, suggest Dr. Trescott, "we want you to get out of this trouble". The way people treated Johnson before the fire changed as his face changed. Miss Bella was engaged to marry Henry but after the episode she too got away from himThe story shows that even a closest human being change in the face of adversity. In "The Monster", Johnson seems to be a monster because of his look, however Stephan Cane is trying to suggest that the real monsters are those who didn't treat him as a human being
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that would stop at nothing to restore white supremacy throughout the south. The KKK became the leading force behind the Democratic Party. They intimidated black voters into voting Democrat by beatings, lynching, and whippings. Black's and people who supported blacks were tortured in the most inhumane manner, many times resulting in murder. Eventually The KKK became so violent that it was dismantled. However it had already accomplished one of its main goals to leave the Blacks with no power and the southern upper class and plantation owners' back into power. Even though the black's had laws that were supposed to protect them and give them rights they were ignored because of the violent ways
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for taking this action to remove the statues. Those statues were not educational. They were celebratory. And what they celebrated was indefensible — treason and oppression. For many people of color here on campus, this was a constant reminder that UT was not a space designed for them. The fight against white supremacy on the UT campus has been constant struggle for the entirety of my college career and is more important now than before as I reach my fourth and final year of my undergraduate career.
Though I know the university has many ways to go, I feel the removal of these monuments was a huge step.
"We do not choose our history," Fenves said in a prepared statement after the statue removals
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statement, he is explaining that if the “barbaric” African slaves were to be freed, he predicts that they would revolt and slaughter and rape the white citizens of the South. This example that Hale provides reveals the contributing fear of slavery being abolished.
In Dew’s eyes, slavery was the key issue to the start of the Civil War, he also mentions how there were some factors that influenced racial issues that stirred up the Civil War. Many Southerners feared the end of white supremacy due to the Republicans’ motives to abolish slavery and ultimately making African Americans equal to white men. In the article, one of Mississippi’s commissioners, William L. Harris, mentions “rejecting the
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Brice's Cross Roads Mississippi. Throughout the next year he made several successful attacks in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.
After the war he was a successful advocate in the railroad business. He was also the first Grand Wizard of the original Ku Klux Klan, a secret society that believed in white supremacy. He late realized this was a bad idea, but the Klan had grown to big for him to stop it.
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their experiences. I personally condemn any forms of racial discrimination and the concept of white women supremacy. I feel strongly against firstly, hegemonic masculity and then hegemonic femininity based on ethnicities.
Discussion questions
· What are the criteria for the ‘subordinate’ or the ‘dominant’ position in context with race, gender or ethnicity?
· Is a social constructionist approach towards race and gender helpful?
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crucial in the culturalization of less-developed countries. Then, the map of imperialism in Africa geographically shows how the Western forces dominated the entire continent, save a few small countries, in order too keep up in the political frenzy for colonies.The social cause of imperialism is the underlying feelings of white supremacy over the other ethnicities of the world. Documents four and six express Caucasian superiority and how other races are meant to only serve the white man, not to ever be his equal. Document five suggests that the social "survival of the fittest" is the scientific justification for imperialism. All three documents, nevertheless, look down upon any and all races that are not remotely related to the Anglo-Saxon race.Essay adapted from the following source: Noonan, Teresa C., "New Imperialism: Cuases." Document-Based Assessment Activities for Global History Classes. Portland, Maine: J. Weston Walch, 1999.
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always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." (Lee 220). This relates to the thesis by standing by the fact that white people were prejudice of black people in Maycomb. It shows how white supremacy was back in the 1930’s. I believe this shows how Tom Robinson was innocent in the situation but because of the town's prejudice they went with the white word and not the black person's word.
Racial injustice on a certain race against blacks in the 1930’s has negatively affected the culture because of all the prejudice. The trial was prejudiced because everyone was wanting to take the white person's word over the truthful, black person's word. Bob Ewell was one of the most prejudiced
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period, and after the failure of Reconstruction, the South delved back into white supremacy. In efforts to escape these depredations, African Americans turned to the protection of the Constitution; however, African Americans were met with the Supreme Court repeatedly denying that relief, and thus began the legal segregation we know as Jim Crow. The Jim Crow Era was an era of legal segregation, and here we see the introduction of elements of black criminality which are still prevalent today. In the “Condemnation of Blackness,” we see how Hoffmann argues during the Jim Crow era that blacks as a race are inferior and more prone to violence and incarceration just because they are black using
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black narrative and direction for liberation, which is a non-racialist society, based on his ideology. Biko suggests that white liberals went as far as defining the methods and goals for black people’s liberation. White liberals should not be leading the black struggle as it firstly portrays the black struggle in a false sense of independence and that they could not identify as being black as they are white in a system which structurally and ideologically upholds white dominance and privilege. The black experience can only be held by black people. The source is significant because Biko criticises the status quo and its very foundation – white privilege and white supremacy. For white people to
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Proposal/Benti | Ann Sheppard
Ann Sheppard
Proposal: Research Paper for
Benti: The History of Africa
September 17, 2019
Extra-Legal Violence: A Comparative Exploration of South
Africa and The United States Usage During the Jim Crow Era
The inherent violence of race relations during the long nineteenth century between 1877 and 1919 of the United States (most notably the geographic South) and South Africa remain iconic expressions of White supremacy. Both countries generated appalling levels of physical violence against Black people, yet that violence manifested itself in quite different ways. The United States witnessed over 4000 state-sanctioned lynchings while South Africa produced not
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LutherKing Jr. begin to surface. He and many others aspire to show the blacks that they are equal humanbeings. Its strange to think that most blacks thought a white was better just because that is whatthey were brought up to believe. This new realization completely jeopardizes the supremacy ofthe white community. The book gives many examples of this fear/hatred such as, 'The hatestare', the tone of peoples voices, and the over all rejection. Who could have thought that a blackperson could have the same job opportunities and the same living standards? For those racistwhites who have a pathetic pride in there incomparable skin color and fear of change is whygroups like the Ku Klux Klan exist. It is
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encouraging a campaign of street violence to strengthen his political hand, or as young radicals used to say, to heighten the contradictions” (Tyson 263). Chavis reached a point of anger and rage toward the unfair treatments of Blacks and used this anger to bring about action and change. From this point of view, Blacks were enraged by the way they were treated by whites and ultimately wanted to fight back. Tyson was able to weave different point of views to connect the universal point surrounding the racial division happening in America at that time. In addition, Tyson included points of views from radical Whites with a strong hold in white supremacy: ‘… Leroy Gibson, walked up to a
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issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God”. In my opinion, it was a strong Attention Getting Device apparently, Kennedy was against segregation and Racism. Even though, it was a risky statement, nobody could deny Its veracity. But, he did not mention Africans-Americans I like that, he threw the ball and hid his hands. In my opinion, it was a lot to ask in a simple moment, he made a general statement.
White supremacy did not want to accept African-Americans rights, there were, a lot of tension on the country surrounding Racism. African-Americans were tired of segregation and started to make riots and protest
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paradise", but rather a journey where it is possible to reach a state of emotional well being. The poem is written in heroic quatrains, and the stanzas are of pentameter lines rhyming ABAB. The poem starts with the African boy "talking" to the reader, and immediately presents the central idea of the poem, the human soul, and in fact he is saying that even if his skin is black, his soul is white as the English child's soul. In this first stanza, the poet builds a clear contrast between light and dark, upon the contrast of the "black" skin and the "white" soul. This contrast could bear a double interpretation; the first one being the literal one, in which the poet is trying to reconcile and
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everything, including; the land, house, supplies, animals, equipment and seeds they used for farming, African Americans were completely reliant on other people to make money and food. Resulting in them having very little freedom. Which in a way freed them from the slavery that existed in the past but lead them to further inequality and segregation. The fight to end slavery was over, but the fight for equality wasn’t.
African Americans experienced much hate and prejudice after the Civil war. This hate was enforced predominantly by the Ku Klux Klan. Which was a group aimed at promoting ‘white supremacy’. Whites felt they were superior to black immigrants. The KKK was a white, underground terrorist
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Subvert gender stereotype in case of Gone With the Wind
Although the film Gone With the Wind is highly controversial with depiction of racial stereotypes, it is according to some critics more of “a study in gender roles, in what it means to be a man or a woman in the South” (Jones 105). The film sets on the Southern culture, a war’s losing side, during the Civil War. On the one hand, it is easy to think the film reinforces gender stereotypes by tightly prescribing gender roles to mask a patriarchy organized around the property, class, lineage and white supremacy. White women were put on pedestals; black women were sexually exploited to fulfill mother figures for their owner’s benefits
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seven years to find someone guilty of lynching. The accused was fined one hundred dollars and only spent one year in jail. During that time, hundred anti-lynching laws were created, zero were passed. Obviously, black lives did not matter to the American government and the people. The mutilation of black bodies was just another form of profit for America. ". .Lynching, are not aberrations from this nation's true principles but, rather manifestations of its abiding commitment to sustain the conditions of racial exploitation." (Ogletree Jr. , Sarat, 23) Killing black people ensures that white people stay at the top of the political, social, and economic hierarchy. It allows white supremacy to
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