...Running head: Racism and Caribbean Peoples in Canada The Synopsis of “Racism Revisited” by Dr. Althea Prince February 11, 2015 In “Racism Revisited,” author Althea Prince reminisces on her own experience as a new immigrant from the Caribbean upon her arrival in Canada. She arrives in Toronto in September 1965, at what is today, Pearson International Airport. A young and naïve 20-year-old Althea, arrives hopeful and full of life, ready to start her new life of opportunity. Her sister, a nurse who migrated from England to Toronto a year earlier greets her at the airport. They retreat to a coffee shop in the airport before heading off to her sister’s place in downtown Toronto. While at the coffee shop, Althea comes face to face with the issue of race and the gravity of it. White people were staring awkwardly at her, gawking as if there was something wrong and the negativity was very prominent. Confused, Althea wonders what is wrong, and it is then that her sister tells her that the ill-mannered stares are due to the small number of Black people in Toronto. Once considered her “land of milk and honey,” Althea’s perception of life in Toronto changes, as issues of race and discrimination become more and more prevalent. She starts to accept the harsh reality that her “land of milk and honey” is not as she thought when she states “it finally penetrated my conscious that I was being told that my skin color made me an undesirable person (p.29)” Later, she encounters more situations...
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...The Minister’s Black Veil In literature, a symbol is something used to represent something else. The textbook defines a symbol as “a further use of metaphor” (194). However, unlike the metaphor, a symbol does not clearly state what it is being compared with. Instead, it “implies rather than explicitly states meaning” (194). Symbols need to be seen within context for the reader to truly understand their meanings. At times, symbols may hold more than one meaning. Their meaning may also change throughout the story. An example of a piece of literature that successfully uses symbols to create a plot is the short story The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Minister’s Black Veil is a parable published in 1832. It was inspired by Mr. Joseph Moody, a clergyman in New England that wore a handkerchief on his face. Earlier in his life, Mr. Joseph Moody had accidentally killed one of his friends. From that day until the day of his death, he hid his face from everyone. Similarly, The Minister’s Black Veil is about Reverend Mr. Hooper’s decision to wear a black...
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...“Equal in Sports” The names of the three articles that are being used are “Minorities Coaches Do Not Face Discrimination in Hiring,” “Decision Making in Hiring: Intercollegiate Athletics Coaches and Staff,” and “Tackling Unconscious Bias in Hiring Practices: The Plight of the Rooney Rule.” The authors of the article that I am refuting, “Minorities Coaches Do Not Face Discrimination in Hiring,” are Roger Clegg and Greg Franke. This article was published in Opposing Viewpoints: Sports and Athletes in 2005. Also, there are two peer-reviewed articles that I am using to support my argument. The authors of one the editorials, “Decision Making in Hiring: Intercollegiate Athletics Coaches and Staff,” are Keith Harris, Richard E. Lapchick, and Neza K. Janson. This editorial was published in New Direction for Institutional Research in the winter of 2009. The author of the last piece of writing, “Tackling Unconscious Bias in Hiring Practices: The Plight of the Rooney Rule,” is Brian Collins. This piece of writing was published in New York University Law Review in June 2007. “Minorities Coaches Do Not Face Discrimination in Hiring” simply explains what its title says; that minorities coaches do not face discrimination in the hiring process for coaching job. Meanwhile, the two peer-review articles, “Decision Making in Hiring: Intercollegiate Athletics Coaches and Staff” and “Tackling Unconscious Bias in Hiring Practices: The Plight of the Rooney Rule”, explains in greater details that the...
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...Julia Castilho Beyond the Orange Jumpsuits Orange Is The New Black is a Netflix series, categorized as a comedy-drama where language and inappropriate content are not an issue. Orange Is The New Black, also known as OITNB, is a TV show that revolves around Piper Chapman. Piper is sentenced to fifteen months at a women’s federal prison for transporting drug money from an international drug cartel that was organized by her former girlfriend, Alex Vause (“Orange Is the New Black”). The incident, which Piper is sentenced for, happened ten years prior to the start of the TV show. By the time Piper’s past has caught up with her, she had already moved on; she got engaged and had an upper middle class lifestyle in New York City and ready to start her brand new life. Unfortunately, before all that can happen, Piper has to go to Litchfield, the female prison, which is now her new home. OITNB portrays the lives of many inmates, including Piper, before and during prison, showing their transformations through time. The first episode of season one, Piper gets ready to surrender at Litchfield. She faces the difficulties on being the new inmate - having no money, no privileges, and no respect from the other convicts. Watching this TV show makes viewers wonder if life in female institutions is as severe as Litchfield. Orange Is The New Black is based off the memoir of Piper Kerman and her experience in prison, which makes the show as realistic as possible. The first episode of season...
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...Violence: The Final Face of Oppression Violence is perhaps the most omnipotent face of oppression, it can be the worst case scenario for the other four faces of oppression or act as an underlying factor, which gives it ultimate power. When people think of violence they often think of physicality, but the true power of violence comes within its ability to take on multiple forms. You can inflict psychological violence, cultural violence , sexual violence and even emotional violence on a person or social group. Because of the power that violence possess it is every bit as ubiquitous, if not more, as powerlessness can be. America has institutionalized the faces of oppression. It is in educational systems, it is in prison systems, and it...
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...Reflective Assignment The New Faces of America is a 65-minute, one-woman show presenting characters of seven incredibly different backgrounds. The audience will hear the stories of a female, biracial college student; a southern gay minister; a young female veteran from the Iraq War; a Native American teenager; a young migrant worker; and others. One actor portrays seven characters, each of a different ethnicity, to explore the challenges and victories of young Americans in a diverse society. The overall theme of the play is freedom and diversity. I want to eventually make a change in the world, and one of the many factors of making that change possible is going to college. In the production the actress was acting out different stories of diversity, the characters she was portraying, were all part of, discrimination or a hate crime. For example the “black brown person”, she was actually a Latino-African American, and people would ask her “Where are you from” and her mother was ashamed of who she really was, and at times so was the girl. It’s not about where you are from or the decisions you make, it is how you will change your life around and make a better future for yourself. How I define American identity is living in the land founded by our leaders, and being part of the American culture. As Americans, we fight for what we believe in, but before we made our own identity as an active culture we Americans were led by thoughts of both the radicals, religious and political...
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...The collapse of slavery after the Civil War sent shockwaves throughout American Society. While the concept of slavery was destroyed, the ideology of White Superiority over blacks remained throughout the Country. The Minstrel Shows emerged from the remnants of slavery and invigorated the discrimination towards blacks. The shows were comedic acts starring blacks slandering their demeanor and behavior through satirization. The Minstrel Shows and entertainment industry reflected the widely accepted the social differences of the time between blacks and whites and ultimately lead to the development of many black stereotypes. The conclusion of the Civil War brought huge social changes for African Americans. The 13th amendment abolished slavery, thus freeing all African Americans from their former slave masters. However, not all people followed suit with the new amendment, and the rights of the blacks varied throughout the...
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...amount of social and cultural desegregation between races, specifically Blacks and Caucasians. Despite decades of desegregation, cultural and social differences still exists. These differences are present in the institution of marriage. Americans have and are slowly evolving away from segregation. In the past forty years a multitude of changes have transformed schools, jobs, voting booths, neighborhoods, hotels, restaurants and even the wedding altar, facilitating tolerance for racial diversity ( Norman 108 ). Since the 1960's, when the housing discrimination was outlawed, many Blacks moved into mainly Caucasian neighborhoods. The steadily growing areas in the west and south-west are least segregated, because these areas never had the entrenched Black and Caucasian sections of town (Randolph 154). Even more visible signs of desegregation can be seen in the areas of education. A study done by the University of Michigan shows that integration on campuses occurs on a regular basis. The racial lines are crossed routinely; about 50% of Blacks and 15% of Caucasians reportedly study together. Eating patterns also share the same similarities. At a social level there has been a steady convergence of opinion on a variety of racial issues. Since 1972, surveys have asked whether the respondent would favor a law making inter-racial marriages illegal. In 1980 the results showed that 30% of Caucasians and 18.3% of Blacks favor such a law. By 1994, the collected data showed 14.7% and 3.2% respectively...
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...Compare and contrast influence on Face jug’s for Black Slaves White potters early 1900’s Mitchell Grafton Comparing and contrasting influence to face jug’s by different artists and potters from different time periods in history, helps us gain knowledge about the creative process of artists. The Black slaves made pottery because were not allowed to have tombstones so they would make face jugs and use it as grave markers. They had hidden meanings behind it. The white potter suffered economic depressions and they began making face jugs to earn money and prevent them from going out of business. Mitchell Grafton makes pottery by learning new techniques and he believes that there will be someone else to keep the tradition alive. Firstly slaves...
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...decades there was both social and political changes, resulting in prosperity and conformity of beliefs during the 1950s and violence, turbulence, and disillusionment in the 1960s. During the 1950s society began to shift into a new culture of prosperity. Due to the prosperity of the 1950s new towns called Levittowns emerged. These towns were the first mass produced suburbs, where similar houses were built close to each other. As shown in the image of Document A, these houses were...
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...Mary Elrod Rockett English 101- Tuesday/ Thursday 26 July 2015 Behind The Black Veil According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, a veil is worn to cover or hide something else. In this case, Parson Hooper wears a veil to cover his “secret sin.” Being a minister, he is exposed to many sinful situations that are difficult to avoid and he covers his self- conflict with a black veil. Throughout this eye- opening parable, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there are both, positive and negative effects of Mr. Hooper’s black veil. Hawthorn reveals whether or not Mr. Hooper’s black veil is worth wearing by the time he dies at the end of the story. The first time Mr. Hooper wears his black veil, people immediately feel frightened and wonder why their minister “has gone mad” (Hawthorne 9). Mr. Hooper does not mean to scare everyone, he is simply covering his face from the world, in which he says, “If I hide my face for sorrow, there is cause enough and if I cover it for secret sin, what mortal might not do the same?” (Hawthorne 35). Everyone speaks only of bad things about him, “I would not be alone with him for the world. I wonder he is not afraid to alone with himself” (Hawthorne 16). Even his fiancé questions their relationship. No one wants a husband whose face is always covered by a depressing veil. He refuses to remove it and explain to her why he is wearing this veil. Mr. Hooper loves Elizabeth dearly and does not want her to leave him, “Have patience...
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...Revolution cementing capitalism into the framework of the nation’s economy, Black people and Indians found themselves pushed out of the national identity. Much of this struggle can be witnessed through an analysis of American theater at the time. Stereotypical portrayals of Black Americans through Black Face Minstrelsy and of American Indians in Indian Plays highlight how White Americans invented social constructs to dehumanize or ridicule “other’ races and protect an imagined White American identity with no static definition. The basis for arguing in defense of a singular definition or identity begins with the denial of all others. In the case of White Americans, this was accomplished by dehumanizing all “other” races. With the advent of abolition and its ideals permeating society, Black slaves had the hope that freedom was attainable, and free White’s adopted fears of a common people class developing in the future with “unthinkable” consequences like widespread amalgamation. Slavery would no longer be the precondition for separatism. The void was filled in part by theories of racial science as developed by scientists like Craniologist Samuel Morton. According to his studies, races could be determined by the size and shape of their skulls and by consequence the variances are what made brains larger or smaller, well equipped or malformed, the White Race most superior to all others. (Fabian) How could black people, free or slave, be considered Americans if they were not even fully...
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...Gulf University of Science and Technology Malcolm X and the effect of his literature On the Black Civil Rights Movement Ohoud Al-Awadhi Ibrahim Al-Hiyari American Literature 12/1/13 Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on the day of May 19, 1925. He decided to withdrawal from middle school at the age 15. This resulted in the him being convicted of robbery and as a result, being sent to prison at the age of twenty one. In that facility, the Nation of Islam which were a group of Black Muslims, were a group of which he found interest in. After he left prison in 1952, he devoted himself to helping the Black Muslims, and later adopted the name; Malcolm X. Unfortunately, the group eventually decided to overthrow him, due to remarks made about John F. Kennedy (Helfer 34). This led him to depart from that movement. During March, 1964, he was occupied in arranging first the Muslim Mosque, Inc., and the Organization of Afro American Unity. He travelled twice to Africa and the Middle East also in the same year. That would end only three months after he returned (X &Perry 14). Once he landed in United States, he was assassinated in the city of New York on February 21, 1965. Since his child hood, Malcolm X was born into a society that embarked the ideas of radical Black tradition. Once he left prison, Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam and was taught by Elijah Muhammad. As with all Nation of Islam members, Malcolm little transformed to Malcolm X, to counter...
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...be a hassle is often a process of assimilation and cultural erasure for Black people because they have to put on a “white voice.” This piece holds several elements of symbolism....
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...Do All Black Lives Matters? Do all Black Lives Matters? Since the being of the movement late last year that is the question running through most peoples’ minds. Whenever there is a story that is about Black Lives Matters it mainly focuses on straight this gender, males with the exception of Sandra Bland. We barely hear about black women being victims of police brutality even though the founder of the movement are women. We also never hear and get media coverage for LGBT+ victims even though they too have large murder rate. There is also a lack of support in the movement for people that aren’t perceived as “Black enough”. The lack of focus on black women, Eraser of the black LGBT+, and colorism shows the injustices within the Black Lives Matters movement. The first example of injustice within the Black Live Matters movement is the lack of focus on women. Black Lives Matters were created in 2013 by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi after George Zimmerman was acquittal. Since then the movement has grown tremendously from being mentioned on every major news network, newspapers and websites, to even come up in the presidential debates. Yet there is no mention of the founders being females at all. . Being that the movement was started by women there is hardly any coverage on female victims of police brutality, with the exception of Sandra Bland....
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