The Play Dead White Writer on the Floor by Drew Hayden Taylor explores Indigenous stereotypes of fictional characters from popular literature. The play starts with 6 Indigenous characters locked in a room. In act one, the characters find a white writer writing their lives. Disturbingly, he was found dead a little later on. The dead white writer's typewriter is still there, and they have an opportunity to rewrite their lives before the end of act one.
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Charlie Russell is a famous painter mostly known for his paintings on the Montana lifestyle. Some of his most famous paintings are of situations involving American Indians. But, how does he really depict them? Did he make it so they look and act real, or did he paint them as their stereotypes? Personally, I think that the Russell portrayed the American Indians in a respectful and realistic way.
This essay is written by Brent Staples, and in his essay he discusses racial profiling that black people go through in public spaces. In the mid-1970’s, Brent Staples discovered such prejudice toward black men for merely being present in public. Staples describes how he could not even walk down the street normally, people, especially women, would stay away from him out of terror. The way Staples structures this essay emphasizes his awareness of the problem he faces.
Robert E. Lee “Bob” Ewell, an antagonist in “To Kill a Mockingbird” would look down upon the modern world. In the novel that took place during the 1930’s, many of the Maycomb citizens had a fixed mindset on African Americans, Bob Ewell being one of them. In fact, he projected the stereotypes of African Americans the most throughout the novel. Bob wouldn’t adapt or approve of our changing society and our acceptance to the different. Not only would Bob not approve of the world, but the world would not approve of Bob because his head is too set on the stereotypes and he doesn’t agree with equality whereas modern society does.
Foucault starts by differentiating two types of punishment: the fierce and clamorous open torment of Robert-François Damiens, who was sentenced endeavored regicide in the mid-eighteenth century, and the very controlled day by day plan for detainees from a mid nineteenth century jail (Mettray). These cases give a photo of exactly how significant the adjustments in western reformatory frameworks were after not as much as a century. Foucault needs the peruser to consider what prompted these progressions and how did western society move so radically.[3] He trusts that the nature's topic of these progressions is best asked by expecting that they weren't utilized to make a more philanthropic correctional framework, nor to all the more precisely rebuff or restore, however as a feature of a proceeding with direction of subjection. Foucault needs to tie logical
