The White Peacock

women. They received more control over their lives, but they did not escape from racism and sexism. Society forced black women into “feminine” jobs and confined them to the typical role of a woman in a household. These women faced prejudices from both white men and women as their roles expanded in society. The Civil War…

for class the world saw and heard of the tragic story of the mass genocide that Hitler created. A part of that was hate towards a certain religion, but it was also related to power. He abused his power and created chaos. Last but not least is race. White people and black people were segregated because of the color of their skin. All these horrible, real tragedies affected people, some more than others. It affected their lifestyle, this society, the way we speak and act towards one another. It…

address to the readers. Due to unfair, or separate but equal, treatments against people of color, the unpleasantness that his father gains from the world has caused him to die, or to lose faith in living this world. Then, Baldwin realizes the values of white people lead him to have irrational thoughts. For example, the last day in New Jersey, he and his friend go into a restaurant that does not serve African Americans. He continues, “I felt I had to do something with my hands. I wanted her to…

to focus on Black heritage in America? Well, everything is focused on being European—British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and such. It is all White. We celebrate the cultures of these great people, but there is no celebration of people with my ancestry. If we even try to have something to celebrate it, there is criticism from both Whites and Blacks for trying to be divergent! Some of the people in the United States, God’s grace upon her, do not afford the same freedom from criticism to…

Joel Schumacher and released in 1996, represents the overall perspective that most white people in society believe they are superior to African-American people and as a result, African-American people have to fight against racial prejudice for equality and justice. This film follows the journey of an African-American man, Carl Lee Hailey, living in Mississippi in the 1980s, who is on trial for murdering the two white men who raped his daughter. The perspective is constructed through the careful…

Mass incarceration has created racial discrepancies among those being incarcerated. Many studies have been conducted to study the causes of these discrepancies and almost all of these studies have found that African Americans and other minority groups accounts for the vast majority of the prison population. In 1991 Albonetti found on her study that African Americans are more likely to be convicted and received longer sentences than their Caucasian counterparts (Kamalu, 2010, p. 2). Another…

Martin Luther King, Jr. as powerful influence in his life. All of those Dreamers represented the MLKs who allowed the Whites to destroy the Black bodies that he thought of as the most precious possession to the Blacks (Coates 131). Contrarily, Malcolm had chosen to respond differently in his approach to Whites who desired to harm the Black bodies (Coates 44). His ideals were no differ than those of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (Coates 30). Henceforth…

what if the missing sex workers were white? How would their disappearances be represented in the media? There is a ‘racial blindness’ in the media, as the social suffering of Aboriginal sex workers in Downtown Eastside Vancouver is discomforting to the neoliberal democratic ideologies in Canada, making their vulnerability invisible to the public. The sex workers who represent drugs, commercial sex, violence and crime are negatively…

“unbusinesslike.”(181) Then IM works at Literby Paint, he repeats the company’s slogan “If It’s Optic White, It’s the Right White.” and “suddenly has to repress a laugh as a childhood jingle rang through [his] mind,” and he mocks “If you’re white, you’re right.” (218) IM begins to realize the racial differences and social discrimination happening around him, and thus he starts to feel disgusted towards white people’s superiority and no longer admires their power. This revelation is the first…

Who Are the Real Racists? “White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires … We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." (Al Sharpton). Who are the real racists? As the media portrays who the racists are, white people and conservatives. Or is it actually, liberals, blacks and most of the media? Racism has existed since the earliest of…