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Racism and Cognitive Dissonance

into a state of psychological dissonance, which, in turn, produces an unpleasant tension (Rudolph, 2003). According to Festinger, ...

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Racism Experiences in Post World War II Great Britain and the Black Community's Responses

black people choosing to leave the country. Post-War Race Relations The post-war immigration in the late 1940s and 1950s in...

Literature, Poetry, and Identity Themes

an exploration of what it means to be an American. "A mountain-born, country-bred,homegrown jibara child,up from the shtetl, a Ca...

Frontier of Australia and White Perceptions

a relatively young country. Just over one-hundred years old it was once a British penal colony (Edwards, 2001). Even the fact th...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Racism

Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...

Finding Forrester Themes of Education and Racism

At the same time, there are two teachers in this work who are at odds. They are of course Forrester and Crawford. Forrester actua...

Progress of the West in Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown

educated in the finest British schools. With no knowledge of any Indian tongue, Kumar became completely an upper-class Britain, in...

Connection Between Globalization and Racism

such as the horrific terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. Many argue those events to be the direct result of globalization,...

Post U.S. Civil War Immigration

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Racism

powerful culture, its own people, and its own history. All of these elements make for a land that is very rich but yet Marlow does...

Overview of Racism

beings can be divided naturally into different physical types (Vorster, 2002). For example, Africans are typed by their dark skin...

Ann Ferguson's Bad Boys Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

a child. Just as obvious, however, is the fact that we as a nation do not want or need children who have been brainwashed into th...

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

all but wiped out, the same mentality still exists today that serves to perpetuate feelings of inadequacy and displacement from a ...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

Human Resources and Ethics

In five pages issues such as sexual harassment and racism are included in how a department of human resources should ethically dea...

Racial Impications in The Matrix

A 30 page analysis of this science fiction film. This futuristic film imparts a sense of reality that is enough to bring most vie...

3 Passages from The Color of Water, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and A Raisin in the Sun

Three passages from these works are contrasted and compared in terms of how they thematically depict women, family, racism, and sl...

Comparative Analysis of Richard Wright's 'Morning Star' and George Schuyler's 'Black No More'

Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...

Books on America's Racism Problems

In five pages this paper examines racism in America as it pertains to the Native Americans and the Japanese during the Second Worl...

Schools Not Color Blind Yet

In spite of all attempts to remove race as a determining factor in American schools, it continues to be a problem. This paper argu...

Racism in Works by Nella Larsen and William Faulkner

heritage that he ignored his wifes infidelity and she ultimately committed suicide. In addition, there is Faulkners Lena Grove, t...

Zimbabwe Conflict

In five pages Zimbabwe history is briefly examined in order to trace the origin of its conflict along with the violent role of Mug...

War's Depiction in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

In five pages World War II as it is portrayed in Heller's novel is examined particularly in terms of they ways in which themes of ...

Oppression Issues

In 5 pages 5 essays that examine oppression are discussed and include Herbert Gans' 'Deconstructing the Underclass, an unknown aut...

Women's Issues and Racism

In 6 pages this paper considers the Reconstruction era until the 1930s in a discussion of how changes affected women's issues and ...

Huck Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson, issues of Racism

This research paper offers a detailed analysis of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson...

Racism, Native America, and Genocide

In two pages this paper considers how European colonists attempted to eradicate the Native American culture through practices of r...

Native American Society, Racism, and European Stereotypes and Misperceptions

In five pages the racism that has plagued Native American society for five centuries is examined within the context of European st...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper examines various themes including racism as they relate to Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Five sources ar...