...America Beyond the Color Line: Ebony Towers Transcript Speakers: Announcer, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Colin Powell, Russell Simmons, Maurice Ashley, Richard, Student, Student 2, Daniel Rose, Vernon Jordan, Milton Irvin, Walt Pierson, Donna Pierson, Melody Irvin, Franklin Raines, Dr. Lenora Fulani, Guide, Pam Louis, Student 3, Student 4, Student 5, Businessman, Businesswoman, Student 6, Student 7 (Music) ANNOUNCER: This program was made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you. Thank you. (Music) HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.: This is Harvard University, for well over three centuries one of the nurturing wombs of America’s ruling class. When I was growing up in the fifties, I could never have imagined that one of Harvard’s most respected departments would be this one, the Department of Afro-American Studies and that I would teach here. I’m trying to get black history month to be every month. Most of the kids that we teach at places like this are the children of the middle class, the children of people like me. I mean, I am teaching my classmates’ children. Our experience at Harvard is just one instance of a much larger phenomenon. (Speaking in background) In the past few years, African Americans have been achieving in ways that no one, black or white, could ever had dreamed possible a generation ago. We now have African Americans at the heart of government, at the top of the world’s largest corporations, the military, education. Virtually...
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...United States of America founded on liberty and the set of beliefs that all men are created equally regardless of race or culture has led to the increase in immigrants from all over the world. Moreover, this increase helped create and develop the melting pot of America, which consists of a variety of cultures, religions, and race, to include, American is not a single race but a variety races, which allows those born in America to take pride in their own culture as well as pride in being an American. Additionally, I have learned that diversity in our past, and present will continue to grow and shape our society in the future, thus benefiting us by allowing us to see beyond the lines of color and difference. Nonetheless, diversity in the past and present has helped me to also believe that although we are all different in some type of way we can overcome those differences and live peacefully amongst each other, thus growing as a whole. On the other hand with diversity there comes great challenges and struggles because we lack knowledge of other cultures and let our differences divides us as people. Such division can cause challenges like negative stereotypes, prejudice behavior and discrimination to list a few. In addition, I have learned that not only did the African Americans suffer but also the Native American Indians, Asian Americans and my own culture. Such suffering in the making of our great nation was the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarch by force and taking of our land...
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...United States of America founded on liberty and the set of beliefs that all men are created equally regardless of race or culture has led to the increase in immigrants from all over the world. Moreover, this increase helped create and develop the melting pot of America, which consists of a variety of cultures, religions, and race, to include, American is not a single race but a variety races, which allows those born in America to take pride in their own culture as well as pride in being an American. Additionally, I have learned that diversity in our past, and present will continue to grow and shape our society in the future, thus benefiting us by allowing us to see beyond the lines of color and difference. Nonetheless, diversity in the past and present has helped me to also believe that although we are all different in some type of way we can overcome those differences and live peacefully amongst each other, thus growing as a whole. On the other hand with diversity there comes great challenges and struggles because we lack knowledge of other cultures and let our differences divides us as people. Such division can cause challenges like negative stereotypes, prejudice behavior and discrimination to list a few. In addition, I have learned that not only did the African Americans suffer but also the Native American Indians, Asian Americans and my own culture. Such suffering in the making of our great nation was the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarch by force and taking of our land...
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...company's chairman and CEO is Andrea Jung, who was promoted to the position in 1999. She has completed a decade as CEO and is the longest tenured female CEO among Fortune 500 companies. Avon uses both door-to-door sales people ("Avon ladies," primarily and a growing number of men) and brochures to advertise its products. In the United States, products may be found through Representatives selling through online shops to customers all over the country. In addition to selling, Avon offers representatives the ability to be involved in the Leadership program, Avon’s network marketing opportunity, where Representatives recruit, mentor and train others to succeed. Although the company has always been more directed toward female customers, Avon's line of male products...
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...In the case of both Cain and DuBois’ first response upon realizing that their race was a problem is comparable to blacks in America today. Their feeling of disdain for the white people on the opposite side of the veil reveals another point about the concept of the veil. DuBois’ veil concept not only refers to the whites’ view of African-Americans as obstructed by the veil. The opacity works two ways. Just like the little white could not clearly see DuBois for who he was beyond the color of his skin due to her veil, Dubois could not properly see the entire white race because of this one encounter with this little white girl that he then projected onto all white people. The same is true in the case of Cain who sued the Pullman Company for his...
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...ethnicity. I will compare and contrast two poems: “Child of The Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales and “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren’t) by Patricia Smith. Morales is a woman if mixed race; Puerto Rican and Jewish, while Smith is African-American. We all want to think that someone’s race or color of their skin wouldn’t determine how they are treated or how they are perceived, but this is not the case. When talking amongst friends about someone they do not know we often describe them by using their skin color. And when meeting someone new one of the first questions we ask is “what race are you?” or the harsher “what are you?” Both of these poems give the reader a look into the mind of two young women of different races, one being mixed and the other being an African American, and how each girl views herself. The poem, “Child of The Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales, the reader looks into the consciousness of a young multi-racial woman. Morales herself is a multiracial woman “Puerto Rican-born and Jewish American Aurora Levins Morales is a poet, essayist, historian, and activist” (Fiandt, 2006). Morales’ poem talks about finding ones identity. Morales starts her poem off by stating that she is an American “she does not claim any single identity beyond “American” and this “American” includes the multiple races and nationalities that have entered the Western hemisphere” (Bost, 2000). The next lines go into more detail of where her ancestors came from. She...
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...W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Double Consciousness” How Race, Stereotypes and Prejudices influence the life of a Negro Wordcount: 3791 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 2 2. Contributing areas that lead to W.E.B. Du Bois´s “Double Consciousness”.................... 4 2.1 Race, Stereotypes and Prejudices ................................................................................ 4 2.2 Double Consciousness, the Veil and the Color-Line ................................................... 7 2.3 Du Bois´s change in use of “Double Consciousness” ................................................. 9 3. Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 10 1. Introduction W.E.B. Du Bois divides the world´s population into three groups; he distinguishes the white race, the black race and the yellow race as the bigger “families of human beings” 1 . According to Du Bois, these races cannot be solely distinguished by their scientifically proven deviances, as those incongruences do not influence the inner cohesion and the lasting duration of each racial group. Furthermore, he appoints every race a unique role which contributes to the welfare of the world. Therefore, he urges the ‘Negros’ to cut the bonds of suppression from the whites and deliver their message rightfully. 2 He argues...
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...everyday life in America, along with portraits. It was painted in 1874 and is an oil on board. The paintings size is 25 1/8 inches by 18 5/8 inches. The piece is a painting of a woman reading a book with a sailboat in the background. In describing this work of art in detail, I’d have to start off by describing the colors in the painting. At the top starts with blue for the sky, then you see pink clouds then really blend down with pinkish/grey and green water and brown dirt and grass. These colors are all blended together. There really is no definite horizon line between sky and water. The sky and clouds have varying different shades of blue, pinks and blending with a touches of grey. Even with that said the only way you can really tell it’s the water is because there is a sail boat there and you can see the reflection. The water is portrayed as dead calm where the ship is. No waves or white caps. I don’t believe there is any breeze at all. Johnson painted a ship on the water with tall white sails, and showed its reflection on the water. Without the ship there, I’m not sure you would have been able to tell there was water. The colors all blend together so beautifully. Johnson painted the woman in ordinary dress for the time. She is dressed in a brownish/black dress with a white apron over it. She has a straw hat on that is perched almost straight up on her forehead to shade her eyes, with it being tied onto her head with a ribbon. Her hat is really the only bit of color that is brighter...
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...birth of a new age that steered the characters and genera’s of a decade and beyond. While the exact start and end of the Golden Ages is debatable, its existence spanned approximately a twenty-year period from the mid to late 1930’s and into the mid to late 1950’s. Essences of the Golden Age lingered in the early 1960’s but the tides by this time were changing rapidly and the free forming ideas as well as the collaborations of this dynamic period had reached their peak. At the dawn of the Golden Age of Comics publishing industries began to develop cartoon booklets as a marketing ploy. Most notable in this endeavor was Eastern Color Printing Company and two of its employees,...
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...All across America, conflicts with policemen are being highly focused on in the media especially if it involves a black American man or Latino. The media has chosen to pick this racial conflict with aggressive policemen and to broadcast any video they can find online to use to further increase the outrage in the black community. It has become a national issue of unnecessary police violence that seems to be along the lines of past racial profiling. Only incidents where the suspect has an ethnic background have seem to make national news. This past week’s news broadcasts an unfortunate event on April 2 in Oklahoma where a reserve deputy pulled the wrong weapon from his belt and shot a man instead of using his taser in the struggle. This man unfortunately died from his gunshot. This event was followed by another event on April 4 in South Carolina where another police officer shot a fleeing unarmed man eight times which also resulted in death. Both men were of color with their deaths shocking their communities. This had been a routine traffic stop that turned deadly which looked unnecessary from watching a video. In both of these cases the policemen have been charged. Shocking video released just days ago show a male suspect walking the streets holding a rifle and then suddenly being struck with speeding a police car. This incident occurred in February but the video was just released. The police are saying that the suspect refused to listen and follow police directions by...
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...Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History Faculty Scholarship 2010 Employment Discrimination in the Ethnically Diverse Workplace Tanya Kateri Hernandez Fordham University School of Law, THERNANDEZ@law.fordham.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, and the Labor and Employment Law Commons Recommended Citation Tanya Kateri Hernandez, Employment Discrimination in the Ethnically Diverse Workplace , 49 Judges' J. 33 (2010) Available at: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/14 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact tmelnick@law.fordham.edu. .. . .......... By Tanya Kateri Hernandez a1cial integrto has long been the touchstone of racial progress in the 0 workplace. But integration is only the beginning of the struggle to end racial discrimination. As workplaces become more diverse, they do nor necessarily becomie less racially discriminatory. Diverse workplaces may be characterized by antagonism between people ofdifferent races. Interethnic discrimination may exist along side the discrimination that has traditionally occurred between blacks...
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... June 19, 2008 Region of Impact: South America Themes: Human Empowerment, Human Health Keywords: One to one movement, shoes, unique product design Reference No: 001153 Key Ideas TOMS shoes are the harbinger of what has been christened as the ‘one to one movement’- for every shoe a customer buys, TOMS donates a pair to a child in need. Going beyond corporate philanthropy, TOMS has integrated the spirit of positive world impact in the very heart of its business, making it a truly sustainable model. Innovation The organization’s undying commitment to help the children around the world and its unique shoe design form a potent combination that uses the force of business for generating societal benefit. The novelty of the product resides in an improvisation on the design of traditional Argentinean rope-soled shoes called ‘alpargata’ to reflect the needs of the American market. Alpargata are light-weight and resilient slip-on shoes with a breathable canvas top and soft leather insole, traditionally worn by Argentinean workers. Craftsmen in Argentina and China are enlisted to produce a more durable rubber-soled version of this canvas shoe. The shoes are a unique slip-on design comprised of clean lines and lightweight fabrics in vibrant colors and prints. These are sold through some of the best stores in retail with many celebrities using and appreciating the product. The multiplicity of colors, design, fabrics and categories of sh...
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...the bird symbolize Doodle. The bird and Doodle have similar deaths because they are both pushed beyond what they are capable of doing. You can tell from when the family watches the scarlet ibis on the tree, “At that moment, the bird began to flutter but the wings were uncoordinated” (Hurst 602). This shows...
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...The United States of America is a paradox. America is known as the land of opportunity, where people who are ridiculed in their home countries come seeking refuge, where people who want freedom come to be liberated, where people come to pursue a new life for both themselves and their families. While these opportunities are presented, they are not accessible to everyone. The Trump Administration creates an environment in which immigrants of color are scorned for even attempting to come to America while European immigrants are praised for chasing after the American Dream. More specifically, Hispanics are portrayed as criminals, drug dealers, job stealers and high school dropouts because of stereotypes that are instilled in our society. Trump’s...
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...Luther King Jr., started the movement for equality with the “I Have a Dream” speech. There were “sit-ins, freedom rides and marches for voting rights” and other things African Americans have been denied. The Black Lives Matter Movement is trying to prevent these horrible acts from happening by bringing it up and making sure people understand that it has been going on for centuries. It didn’t start in 2009 with Grant, but it’s been happening since African Americans were brought over on slave ships. It doesn’t seem like it will end. However; both movements like to “focus on issues of race, class, gender, nationality, sexuality, disability, and state-sponsored violence” and to get rights for all because it’s not only white people living in America (Ruffin II). They want to see that justice is served and African American’s get a chance at life instead of dying at a young age because of racism. Both movements not only try to end this cruel treatment, but they also advocate for those who have lost their lives because of this...
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