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rationalize their own behavior. It is talk that serves to "insulate white people from examining their/our individual and collectiv...

Stuart Taylor Jr. (2006) points out in a commentary that law firms are trying to embrace diversity by using "large" hiring prefere...

African author Chinua Achebe argues that the extended metaphor that Conrad uses to relate his principal theme is founded on the vi...

and dynamics" should be openly discussed (Constantine and Sue, 2007, p. 142). The "general purpose of this study was to explore ...

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

foundation for those white men with power and money. Feagin (2000) states, "This was not just a political gathering with the purpo...

using it to divide and to confuse the people about the reasons for the economic and social crisis of the system. Because the syste...

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

doctorate there in 1965 (Pauli Murray). Among other positions, Murray was a civil rights lawyer, "a professor, a college vice pres...

in his introduction, "One of the paradoxes of a culture of fear is that serious problems remain widely ignored even though they gi...

however, they - themselves - were catalysts for racism by virtue of how they so eagerly left behind a big part of their heritage i...

ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...

to secure benefits for themselves "at the expense of African slaves and their American-born descendants" (Clark, 2003). Whites hav...

with which Twain was quite familiar. There appears to be no individual he likely knew as Huck Finn, but perhaps, as a writer, Tw...

Shawki argues that the slave system resulted in the accumulation of wealth and the parallel development of capitalism in both Amer...

Europeans were conquerors. They wanted land and they needed slaves to build the country economically. It is also interesting to no...

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

The participant group consists of well-educated middle-aged women ranging economically from working poor to upper middle class. A...

difference between these two concepts? What is institutionalized racism? First, it should be said that race is something that is ...

in combating this lingering, problematic situation. It is not as if there were never any fights in Canada. There were. However, t...

read. Morrison presents these excerpts, and the distorted excerpts, to illustrate a nation that has long held racism out for all t...

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

people..." (p.88). It is an idea that makes sense. There are differences of opinion between people and a hatred festers. Similar t...

in which Thomas Jefferson described all men as being created equal. However, equal has occasionally been interpreted as being syn...

dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...

the 2008 ticket, but still, racism has not yet been eradicated. The facts of the case suggest that racism against black people is ...

clubs of a period of 16 years between 1978 and 1993. The theory was that if there was a competitive market for players each clubs ...

the end, most likely killed by her stepfather, a Hispanic, through sheer ignorance and neglect. The fact that no one seems to no C...

arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...

work environment atmosphere in an unrelated sexual harassment complaint" (Diamond, 2005). In addition, government employees should...