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…People see it everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing…

…to their white counterparts. Some people argue that those statistics reflect high rate of crime, which is prevalent in African-American communities. Specifically the areas of concern are impoverished. The rate of unemployment is higher than the national average…

…a story yearning to be untold, one of the lives, deaths, and mentalities, of thousands of people, white and black alike. On the very first page, Kotlowitz identifies the climax: the murder of Eric McGinnis and the effects it had on the inhabitants of the two…

…identity. For years, we (Blacks) have been struggling to empower the black community by incorporating our race into the powers that be or the white community. In our time of struggle, hopelessness has taken over the mindset of many Black-Americans. We still…

…beauty. Muriel is distinguished from the ideal white woman. She is black in colour, educated, intelligent, responsible, kind, and above all silent. She relates to the world through her job as a clerk and typist who deals with black or white customers…

…, the problem of blacks being treated as second-class citizens still persisted. What could be done to correct the present situation? Some, both blacks and whites, believed that non-violence was the only means to achieve civil rights, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr…

…In "Hansel and Gretel" and "Snow White" there are many comparisons that arise within the two stories. In "Hansel and Gretel" the children's presence creates hardships for the parents, and because of this, life turns problematic for the children…

…woman are made to deal with racism and the fact they don't look like a white woman on their job. I will try to show that although things may look like it is changing. The present is still closer to the past than we realize and there is much…

…a document called the “White Paper”. This outlined and gave reasons for the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. The United States was protecting South Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia from Communism. The paper was very adamant in saying…

…of the population than by the whites who, while in the minority, had considerably more power within the social order of the colony. Wood begins his examination of the black majority in colonial South Carolina by explaining the development of the colony itself…