Word count: 1,489 Throughout history, women have been victims of oppression no matter what religion or background they come from. They have learned from a young age, that their appearance is important to fundamentally be happy in their life. The topic of oppression in woman leads to controversial discussion not only to scholars but women […]
Gender and Sexuality According to Arndt (2017), sexuality denotes person’s physical, biological and chemical makeups. To differentiate two persons on the basis of sexuality, you will incorporate differences in chromosomes, genes, internal and external sexual organs and hormonal profiles. On the other hand, gender denotes the roles and responsibility that persons of the two sexes […]
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Get startedRacism and discrimination seems to be the dominant theme here in the United States. It’s painful and humiliating, people of color that have experienced that. Being judged on the color of your skin and being generalized into a cruel and ignorant stereo-type is not acceptable by any means. Having the horrible gut feeling every time […]
Blackness and the American Cultural Hegemony: The Dynamics of Racial Socialization and Representation, and its Role in the Systematic Devaluation of Black Lives. Introduction Comment by Dafe Oputu: Comment by oyinkan adepitan: Today, the Black civil rights movements of the United States are still actively battling against some of the primary issues that their forebears […]
Looking at current events and our history, we can see that many genocides and acts of violence are towards religious groups, we also see that many extreme religious groups are the ones that cause these genocides and acts of violence. Religion, according to many anthropologists, can be described as the relation we have between humanity […]
Slavery was a major issue of concern in America. It involved capturing the less powerful in the colonies and taking them forcefully as workers. Slavery was characterized by torture, manipulation, and oppression of the victims. Women were left without their husbands; some of them were involved in forced marriages. Slaves were taken to work for […]
Censorship should be avoided at all costs to preserve the wholesomeness of the government, and the safety of its citizens. Censorship is a brutal tool used throughout history by tyrannical governments, and oppressive organizations to maintain dominance, and control of public masses. The American government, and many private companies have been taking steps to limit […]
Feminism is concerned with, the ways in which works emphasize or challenge the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women. The broader political and ideological environment of the 1900’s and the socialist feminist communities that she frequented had enormous effect on the works of Susan Glaspell. She wrote her famous play Trifles in 1916. […]
People who identify as transgender often have been, and still are mistreated and discriminated against throughout the world. Discrimination against any group of people usually stems from a lack of knowledge and understanding when it comes to who that person, or people, on a fundamental level. Identifying as transgender is described as a person whose […]
Introduction Racial segregation and oppression refer to how a group of individuals is dominated by another group based on the color of their skin and origin. In America, exclusion and oppression was rampant throughout history with African American being sold into slavery, denied fundamental human rights and stopped from participating in civic duties across different […]
Source I The article talks about a white individual who basically explains he was born into a white family during the Apartheid era, which ensued in him becoming a recipient of white inherited privilege. This allowed him to receive an excellent education. But that he has not been capable to accumulate wealth or own land. […]
W.E.B Dubois is an early African American sociologists who is devoted to seeking solutions to racism faced by the black culture of America. Most of his ideas and experiences as a member of the African American community are shared in his book, The Souls of Black Folks, in which two chapters from the book called, […]
There is not a person on earth that can say they live in a utopia. As hard as countless governments have tried to create a perfect society, they have only been able to succeed for short periods of time. From the time the idea of a utopia was created, it has been synonymous to both […]
Asad Haider’s Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump is an interesting narrative that delves into the conception and ideological histories and processes of identity politics. The book focuses on the aspects of race as a part of identity. These liberal leanings that are thrown about on the left but are consistently […]
In Sonny’s Blues, author James Baldwin portrays the ways in which two brothers can be completely different – both socially and economically. The narrator, who is the older brother, was able to assimilate, rising beyond the constraints and obstacles that lay in front of him. Alternatively, his younger brother Sonny remains trapped and misunderstood by […]
In James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next Time his essay “Down at the Cross- Letter from a Region of my Mind” deals with the relations of race and religion identifying between Baldwin’s experience with the Christian church as a youth and also the Islamic ideals in Harlem. His theological […]
Hidden figures is based on a true story about the life of Katherine John, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA in the 1960s. Catherine has been very excellent since she was a child. Among the three, he seems to be relatively moderate. He accepts all unfair arrangements in silence as long as it is […]
The hairy ape is a theater play by an American author and playwright, named “Eugene O’Neill.’ The play was authored in 1922 and first presented in the theater in the same year. The author described the struggle of a laborer with the industrialist and the capitalist world, which instead of appreciating his services for the […]
Intersectionality is the acknowledgement of different social categorizations such as race, gender, and class that apply to an individual or group. Additionally, intersectionality also explains how each person within the same group may experience oppression differently than another individual depending upon their intersection of identities. After I analyzed and examined intersectionality, it really made me […]
For young folks who are in the process of becoming aware of their personal traits and social self, an intersectional perspective can guide the construction of modern and complex identities, denounce their exposure to social inequality, and foster leadership and (solidary) participatory action. Social identity groups typically have a singular focus, such as race, sexual […]
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw makes an excellent point in regard to intersectionality. During her speech “What is Intersectional Feminism” She speaks out stating how black women are oppressed against, in more ways than one. They are discriminated against for being women as well as for being black. During her epic speech she states that when black […]
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is a gothic loathsomeness story composed by Charlotte Perkins Gilman who was an enthusiastic and innovative author and was continually energetic to make the world more fair-minded for ladies. Gilman was determined to have unembellished instance of wretchedness after the introduction of her little girl. Because of her apprehensive condition, she was […]
