I first became conscious of my race during my final year of middle school, before this race and color existed for me but no one in my surroundings nor I felt anything toward it. I went to an elementary school that was mostly made up…
Racial segregation speaks to an issue, which harms the establishment of any socialized society – it turns individuals against one another and has no premise with the exception of numbness and hunger for power. Ralph Ellison’s ‘Undetectable Man’ approaches this issue through the eyes of…
After five years sailing on the sea and, Charles Darwin made a lot of observations and collection on kinds of animals, plants, and fossils. The valuable experience inspired Darwin and made him create the theory of evolution — one of the most important theories in…
To a moderate extent, we get nearer to the truth the closer we are the event, as over the progression of time, discoveries are made, and unknown facts are revealed, which were not readily available close to a certain event. In the case of an…
Reputation is universally affected by the ideologies of one’s society. These ideologies are often the catalyst for discrimination, fuelling a desire for society to preserve the prevailing status quo. This is represented by Shakespeare in his renaissance tragedy Othello (1604) and in Phyllida Lloyd biopic…
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Ifemelu is a young woman from Nigeria. Ifemelu has light skin, and during her time in Nigeria she doesn’t think of herself as black, rather just another person, which we all know is very different than in America. In America race is normally the first…
In the movie Mulan, the lead character sets out to war in place of her ailing father who’s medical condition only becomes worse every day. As it is set in earlier times, she cannot go in her true self and instead, has to impersonate a…
‘I have a Dream Speech’ remains one of the famous speeches in American history as blacks sought freedom. The fight against discrimination on basis of race and color was ripe in the 1950s and early 1960s, this is despite the ruling that barred any discrimination…
DuBois was born in Massachusetts, largely unaware of race prejudice, until one day, as he wrote in Souls of Black Folk, a student in his class refused to exchange greeting cards with him simply because he was black. That is when he became aware of…
Caste, class and gender are inextricably linked, they interact with and shape each other. Inequality is practiced using the system of marriage, reproduction and sexuality. Louis Dumont defines caste system as a system of consensual values; a set of values accepted by both the dominant…