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…"The Color Purple" would be the best example of Collins' article. Celie would be a combination of a mammy and matriarch according to Collins. Although Celia isn't in a white household she begins as a mammy. She plays a faithful, obedient, and domestic…

…Battle Royal, by Ralph Ellison is about a boy that is trying to survive and get an education in a white man's world. He finds himself faced with several obstacles that he must overcome in order to deliver his speech. He knows that he has to deliver his…

…regarding the responsibility for the actions and crimes committed by Bigger, mainly the murder of Mary Dalton, a young white woman. Bigger had suffocated Mary, then burned her in the furnace so her dead body would not be found by her family. One belief…

…Richard Wright's list of "topics that southern white men did not like to discuss with Negroes" (231) was forbidden because of the relationship that the Negroes would acquire with the southern white men in the Jim Crow south. If Negroes could relate…

…tradition states that the stone was originally white, but it had become black by absorbing the sins of the millions of pilgrims who have kissed and touched it. Ramadan is a sacred month to Muslims, and faithful Muslims fast between dawn and dusk during Ramadan…

…from one sphere or condition to another" (10). Carrie's deepest unconscious desires, before she is exposed to the "cunning wiles" of the city, partake of "wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy which should make it [the city] prey and subject…

…designed to determine the sex-linked inheritance in Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila melanogaster have an x- and a y-chromosome in males and two x-chromosomes in females. The crosses of white-eyed females and red-eyed males give the following outcome…

…wolf pups. The only one to survive was a spunky cub named White Fang. White Fang became a pet of the Indians. He moved with the Indians everywhere they traveled, yet he still heard the call of the wild. They cherished him as he became a great fighter…

…Black Feminists Debate Whiteness Stephanie Philipovich & Angela Torchia Passage #1: "Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green…

…, Bigger has molded his life this way because of an obsessive fear and anger he feels toward whites. Bigger is limited by his lack of education (up to eighth grade), and by the racist practices that force him to live in poverty, and is naïve in the sense he…