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Feminist scholar Audre Lorde has thoroughly documented this phenomenon, having been on the receiving end of white feminist scapegoating more than once. In her speech "The Uses of Anger," which she delivered at a 1981 National Women's Studies Association Conference, Lorde recounts the the times she's been dismissed as "angry" for bringing critiques of racism into predominantly white feminist spaces.
In Brent Staple’s essay, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space, he discusses how the black are stereotyped and not in a nice way. The whites’ believe black people are dangerous to their community, that the blacks commit wrong doings and create violence everywhere they go. The author goes through many struggles in his lifetime, for example, people thinking he is a mugger or even worse. Staples writes about his “first victim” to begin his essay, the victim is a white women who is so scared that he is behind her that she sprints off as far as she can. When people see Staples, they immediately assume that he is a bad man, when in reality he is a hardworking man earning everything he has.
The East Los Angeles School walkouts and Chicano Moratorium are two historical examples that emphasize forms of Chicana and Chicano resistance that have been examined in varied ways, particularly through print media such as the Los Angeles Times and La Raza. In 1968 more than 10,000 Chicana and Chicano students walked out of schools in East Los Angeles to protest inferior educational conditions and demand equal access to quality education. Then, in 1970, the Chicano Moratorium, which intended to be a peaceful demonstration to call for social justice and protest the Vietnam war, transformed into a display of police repression and brutality that left several marchers dead. Descriptive material, such as print media, served as instrumental extensions
Brent Staples, in the article “Just Walk On By” claims that there is a growing amount of a racist stereotype that whites, specifically white woman, have against black males. Staples supports his claims by using his own past experience evoking certain emotions of the audience. The author purpose is to retell his experiences of racism and to educate white people about what it is to be a white man, in order to really make them see how they are misjudged just by the occasion based on appearances. The author writes in a fairly calm tone towards his audience in this case, of whites of all social classes, specifically women. Staples use of pathos, diction, and ethos to effectively join his ideas to the thoughts and attitudes of his audience in his collective article.
Free Me: Racist Speech Freedom is a paradox, especially in America. Everyone is free, but everyone must obey laws. In 1776, America chose to fight against her oppressor. Rather than be a single colony, America became a separate country. Today as an adolescent, America faces a new uphill battle, free speech.
Copper Sun Essay There is plenty of brutality in the world today. On the news there are many examples of hate crimes. For example, white people are killing people of color, especially African Americans, for little to no reason. In the 14th amendment, women were granted the same equal rights as men, however women are still looked down upon and get treated differently.
Watching Ken Burn’s The Central Park 5, a viewer can easily see the vulgarity and vitriol which fueled the case and think, even hope that this sort of treatment of black and Latino American youths would be intolerable in modern America. This documentary chronicles the case, dubbed by the media as the Central Park Jogger, which involved the violent rape of a white female jogger in Central Park on April 19, 1989 and the wrongful conviction of five boys of color. The jogger, a 28-year old investment banker of the Upper East Side was so brutally beaten that she was in a coma for twelve days, and her assault became a huge media spectacle. This case exacerbated racial tensions in a crime-driven, poverty-stricken New York City, and revealed the prejudices
For people to show up and make their support present. One student spoke about the fear that marginalized groups deal with everyday due to recent events involving hate. She said acts like these must stop. In Barbara Perry’s article, Hate Crimes, she talks about America’s color-coded society. She explains that whiteness has been constructed to be the normal American standard.
The Netflix show “Dear White People” episode 1 begins with a narration satire of the Winchester University’s social and racial landscape read by an “ethic, but non-threatening” sounding man. The narrator describes the covert racism of a blackface party held by one of the school’s fraternities and the pro-black people who crash in to stop this egregious party. This sequence of event is significant in the context of the whole episode and entire series because it reveals the racial diversity in Winchester University and common stereotypes made against black people who attend the school, hence the title of show. The female protagonist, Samantha White, makes it her mission to address said white people on their ignorance and covert and/or overt racist views through her platform that is the school’s radio station, with her show called “Dear White People” of course.
Still used to their traditional ways, America is still stuck in the past white complexity – the intention of being white is superior, meanwhile, great leaders of victimized countries lead their nations to prosperity. With the appointment of the current president of the USA, Donald Trump, it was clear that many supported the prejudicial, misogynic, xenophobic campaign driven by him, which was a direct answer to many minorities – white supremacy is alive. Media, either refused to cover the injustice towards non-whites or, simply supported, hence, burying their privilege to stand up for the brutish means. The bias towards whites and non-whites expanded to a level that the deeds of a white man was covered as mentally-ill, misunderstood, acts of freedom, while a non-white was dragged as a terrorist, murderer, and problematic. The freedom to speak is used in an inappropriate way in communities; exploiting and encouraging problematic thoughts by superior parties sustaining xenophobic behavior.
Only about 2 weeks ago, Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) released a controversial and culturally influenced music video “This is America”. The video satirically demonstrates the injustices that African Americans have suffered, including innuendos that date back to slavery all the way up to the present maltreatment of African Americans in 2018. The video was an attempt to confront the issues and send a message about the incessant discrimination which blacks have experienced all their life. Glover had known that this would become an incredibly popular and controversial source all throughout the country, and took it upon himself as his “duty in the face of injustice,” just like Ernest J. Gaines has written about the defiance of old African American
In Oryx and Crake, society does not value femininity. Females are seen as weak and subordinate to men, and the arts are disregarded. Crake, who is the alpha male in the novel and sees the world in a pragmatic sense, is representative of the general viewpoint of their society. Jimmy on the other hand, is seen as feminine despite being male due to his empathy and talent for words. By illustrating a world dominated by masculine qualities, Oryx and Crake shows that feminine qualities are essential to society and are innate in humanity.
Kareen Harboyan English 1C Professor Supekar March 15, 2018 Word Count: Crenshaw’s Mapping the Margins: The Marginalization of Women of Color Analyzed Through Generalization and A Feminist Lens Crenshaw's Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color expands on the multifaceted struggles of women of color and the generalizations ingrained in society that limit women of color and keep them in a box. In this text, Crenshaw builds on the concept of intersectionality which proposes that social categorizations such as gender and race are intertwined and have great influence on one another.
Today in class, we discussed a topic that is deeply engraved in American history yet widely avoided by many: race. More specifically, terms like “racist,” “All Lives Matter,” and “white privilege,” which may make some people uncomfortable but more than ever, need to be confronted and examined. We watched several videos containing a variety of people discussing their own personal thoughts and feelings on such terms to spark our own conversations on the same topics. After viewing the first video on the word “racist,” I began to reflect on my own actions towards other people.
Feminist Theory In Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”, they recognize the life of the Igbos which are a tribe in the village of Umuofia during European colonization. There are many topics brought up in this book like the effects of colonization, culture and tradition, religion, race, etc. It is relatively easy to read “Things Fall Apart” as an anti-feminist text due to the face that the Igbo clan’s customs and traditions seem to side towards masculine features, such as power and strength. The novel is told through a male protagonist’s point of view in nineteenth century Nigeria, while women there do not have much rights, they do wield heavy influence over the leaders of the clan.
