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 an ideal society and also one that does not exist anywhere (Ollman, NYU). Every nation that has ever existed has had a flaw that is […]
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, Of Our Spiritual Strivings & Of the Faith of the Fathers, are represented in this article. These two chapters primarily focus on the strengths and […]
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Get help with your assignmentSource 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. That his voice and opinions are all he has, especially when living in a county like South Africa, which allows citizens to voice their opinions […]
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. Women are used to worrying over Trifles, (Glaspell 957). Women always face so much difficulties regarding their gender discrimination. Glaspell’s Trifles points out about all […]
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 sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex. This can be a hard and difficult truth to come to terms […]
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 instance in plantations and in construction projects (Keene, Cornell & ODonnell, 2013). The rights of the slaves were not taken into consideration. Movements rose to […]
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 and the order of existence. For majority of people, the order of existence, does not entail violence. William James would describe religion as a personal […]
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 were concerned with: the apparent expendability of Black flesh and the representation of Black people as criminals.[footnoteRef:0] Although significant progress has been made in relation […]
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 have in the community. It designates all those traits that are ascribed to men or women by the members of a community or by the […]
