Essays on White Supremacy

How to overcome racism if our own justice system is racial? We know that our nation has struggled a lot of unjust racial cases. For example, in the period of pre-civil war, the southern part of the United States was covered with slavery. The life of Black-African American groups was horrible as they were slaves and were treated as slaves also. They were a property that white people could buy and sell, had no rights, and were not protected by the legislature. In 1865, Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery, and the modern days are known for the public fight with ...

The decade of 1845 to 1855 witnessed a rapid rise in abolitionist sentiments across the United States. Interestingly, at the forefront of the abolition movement were ex-slaves narrating their experiences in the hopes of eliciting a response from the anti-slavery forces. Now, and in perhaps the most effective tactic that the slaves employed, their narratives counteracted the dehumanizing nature of slavery. In other words, rather than accept the notion of white supremacy on which the slavery system survived, persons of African descent escaping their masters applied different tactics to argue for racial equality in the hopes of liberation for ...

The Chicano Movement sought to educate the Latinos consciousness about their social justice, dismantling the white supremacy paradigm, and generally giving back to the communities. Thus it can be termed as a civil liberty movement and liberation. The movement was born out of the need to improve the lives of the oppressed Latinos, fight against police oppression, land struggle, immigration issues and women rights amongst others. The group mobilized students and other groups who accepted and took pride in the Chicano identity and thus embracing it and demanding for recognition and representation. This paper will explore some of the ...

Introduction

The United States of America represents one of the most democratic nations in the world based on the history of the country. Americans have advocated for democracy through a number of movements that aimed at uniting or disintegrating Americans based on their agenda and goals. One of the issues that affected U.S. in the past and continues to portray its significance today is the discrimination against race, ethnicity, and color. White people felt as if they owned the country and looked for strategies to get rid of blacks through denying them some basic needs and using violence means to ...

The global Cold War was a significant time for the entire world, as the citizens of every country watched on the edge of their seats to see who would make the next move. Nuclear power sent the world into a frenzy and the aftermath of World War II provided the perfect backdrop for a new global-scale conflict. People were scrambling to diffuse the situation while others waited in fear for the worst-case scenario. The Cold War is known as a time of high tensions, nuclear threats, and depending on where one lived at the time, Communist agendas. The primary ...

Critical Analysis

As Delgado and Stefancic point out, the critical race theory (CRT) as held by most pragmatists and civil rights activists helps in explaining the issue of racism that is so entrenched in the American society’s legal, social, political, and economic systems (23). According to them, race is not a biological but a social construct which means that it is embedded in people as they interact with people from different racial backgrounds. Critical race theory also helps in explaining some of the historical racial injustices such as discrimination that people of color have had to go through for a ...

The major events of the U.S. civil rights movement from 1948 to 1970 caused a profound change in the American society and culture by challenging the White superiority myth. The success of desegregation in particular professional areas demonstrated that Blacks could also perform traditionally white activities, and even perform them better. Furthermore, the desegregation of the first schools challenged the myth of the intellectual superiority of Whites. African American students could demonstrate that they could keep up with Whites, and they could soon flourish in the public arena, to the extent that they were allowed to do so. Finally, ...

Thesis Question: What is Whiteness and How Does it Shape Distinct Aspects in People’s lives such as Marriage, Interactions, Social policies, etc.? Thesis Statement: Racism and ethnic categories are founded on the theory of Whiteness. The approach has critical social effects on the lives of the communities that do not fall under the realm of Whiteness.

Introduction

The comprehension of the history of ethnicity and race, as well as the measures to combat racial prejudice, require the understanding of the theory of whiteness as the basis of racism and racial categories (Hornung, 2012). Hence, there is the need to ...

(1a) Charles Mills supports that white supremacist society has its roots both in the past as well as in present society. In societies such as the United States, history is littered with discrimination by whites against nonwhites. Additionally, white supremacist society could be seen during the Civil Rights era where whites believed nonwhites were not intellectually, emotionally, or physically the same as them and therefore there was a need for segregation of between the races. In present society, people still deal with a white supremacist society through issues like the one drop rule which was put into law at ...

Over centuries, white supremacy always put domination on those who were fair-skinned than those who were black. There was white privilege that put the white ones ahead in freedom, opportunities and rights to the point that the black ones were left behind to be treated more as slaves, mainly because they lacked the higher value of having white skin color. This was the dehumanization of African peoples even in the United States, in which they were reduced to the status of a chattel just for the sake of enslavement, as well as, economic exploitation. There was white supremacy for ...

Basic Identification

While confined in Birmingham prison, Martin Luther King Jr. jotted down a letter that explained the reasons for his arrest in 1963. Martin wrote the manuscript on scrap papers, newspaper corners, and the toilet paper while imprisoned in a solitary cell in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. He wrote the letter to respond to the nine criticisms of the clergymen regarding King and his fellow activists. Racism was highly prevalent in Birmingham during the 1950s and 60s. King was arrested for taking part in an anti-segregation parade in the town because he did not have a permit (King, par. ...

A reading of Wakatsuki Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar and Melba Pattillo Beals’ Warriors Don't Cry reveals that racial prejudice in the twentieth-century societies of the United States was against anybody who was not Caucasian. In other words, while Houston’s work focuses on the Japanese-Americans’ experiences after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the internment that came after, Beals talks of black segregation and the laws that declared black people inferior to the whites. Hence, there are similarities between the two books as they revolve around ideas of white supremacy that placed persons of African and Japanese descent ...

Introduction

Radical extremism is a sought after media subject today. However, the real picture is always missing. The entire world focusses only one type of radical extremism. The world chooses to forget that there is yet another type which is far more dangerous. The callous campaign of the Crusaders in the Eleventh Century destroyed the peace in the Middle East and is responsible for all the animosity towards the West from this region. Yet, European scholars at the time did not document the massacres or acts of cannibalism by the Crusading armies. Similarly, while the Western media is busy covering ...

Nelson Mandela was an important political figure in South Africa because he fought against the white supremacists that were in charge of the country. He spent 27 years in prison because he opposed the South African government. Nevertheless, Nelson Mandela was able to reach his political goals in the 1990s after he had been released from the prison. He and his political partners came to the power and changed the political environment in South Africa. 2) The statement was made in Rivonia, the suburb of Johannesburg which is the capital of South Africa. During the trial in 1964 Nelson ...

The central theme that will be focused on in this paper is white supremacy. To summarize what this means, it is basically a concept or belief (often among white people themselves) that suggests that white people are superior in terms of all aspects of like to people of all other races, most especially the colored ones or the black people. Because of this kind of reasoning, white people tend to develop the tendency to think that they should dominate society on a global scale. The objective of this paper is to discuss two historical artwork depicting white supremacy, discuss ...

Golub, Mark. "Plessy as "Passing": Judicial Responses to Ambiguously Raced Bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson." Law & Society Review, 39, no. 3 (2005): 563-600.

Synopsis

Homer Plessy’s decision to purchase a ticket as a white man, and to later confess that he is indeed black, was part of “a test case” conducted by the Creole community of New Orleans. As per the terms of the Louisiana Separate Car Act of 1890, Caucasians and persons of African descent were subject to traveling in different railway cars to serve the purposes of racial segregation. In the article, Golub quotes Plessy’ ...

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee or the SNCC, as the name suggests, revolved around peaceful forms of resistance to the white supremacy ideologies that not only warranted the enslavement of blacks in the antebellum period but also cemented the grounds of segregation. In other words, because of the racial divisions that existed between persons of African descent and their white counterparts, American societies functioned around a social hierarchy that made whites the predominantly superior race at the expense of blacks. Now, to end the racial injustices in the Southern States, the first method that the SNCC employed encompassed the “ ...

What was the African American Renaissance, and how did it influence American culture and society?

African American Renaissance and its influence The time period 1918-1937 is known for the cultural movement the African Americans in Harlem took place. African Americans struggled against slavery against the white supremacy for decades which ended in the Harlem or African American Renaissance. The revolutionary movement after the great migration brought a remarkable cultural uplift in the American culture. Literary writing, compositions and music became a source of cultural rehabilitation instead of music alone. It allowed the expression pride for the African Americans’ independence and increased black militancy (Harlem Renaissance n.d.).

Why was the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) passed, and what was its impact?

Indian Reorganization Act and its impacts Indian Reorganization ...

The Complexity of the Cross

Perception and perspective is often considered one’s reality. This notion forces one to acknowledge their own perceptions and perspective, particularly when it comes to their faith as they solidify and identify their own beliefs. For those who belong to the body of Christ, each member has its own journey formulating a testimony that is based on a personal relationship that is rooted in the loving grace of Jesus Christ. Within each life with Christ, there are complexities that only the grace of God can heal. In spite of life’s injustices, evil forces, sinful flesh, and degradation, the ...

The Great Migration occurred in 1916 when African-Americans sought rescue and did not leave the country. They had no leader and there was 6 million people involved while the incident was happening at night. This was a family tragedy as well and it left trace on the future generations. The freedom of black people today has been affected by the gruesome experiences of their ancestors. Mamie Carthan Till got married in Chicago where she lived with her son Emmet who was raised to respect white supremacy. “That August, he was kidnapped, beaten and shot to death, ostensibly for whistling ...

Chinese Fan Dance

The Chinese traditional dance has existed for over two thousand years. It has been part of their heritage for all these years and is believed to be an ancient type of folk dance, and the Chinese people highly value the festival event, and it is seen as a symbol of national identity (Tamara, 2016). Purposely, the fan dance is a significant form of art and plays many roles in China. First, it is used a means of passing down traditions and stories of Chinese culture. Promote their rich historical roots. During the fan dancing, brightly colored costumes were used ...

As the United States ushered in the nineteenth century, its societies witnessed an unprecedented increase in reform movements that revolved around calls for change within its borders. Before then, protestors lasted as long as it took for them to tire of their efforts. In other words, there was no commitment to ensuring that the American populace changed its attitudes in life and for that reason, reformations were impossible to sustain in the eighteenth century. Now, in the nineteenth century, the situation changed as social protests prevailed and the people created formal organizations to communicate messages. One such endeavor was ...

Describe and analyze Reconstruction. Did Reconstruction have any successes?

The end of civil war in the United States of America brought about many problems, in particular for the South. Some of the problems were political, economic decay and social disorder. The war destroyed the plantations and crops thus causing many to starve to death while others became homeless. The reconstruction became the only hope for the people. Radical reconstruction began in 1867, which enabled the freed black men to have a voice in the government. Before the civil war, the Southern state had enacted laws that suppressed all African American. This fact angered many people from the North ...

The right wing media has long held the position that white-on-black racism in the United States is “dead.” Certain facts are thought to prove this point. The fact that, in 2009, a black man assumed the office of President of the United States is proof that racism is over. Also, black students now have an easier time getting accepted to college than white students because of Affirmative Action, proving racism is no longer a problem (Weissmann, 2012). And anyway, racial discrimination is illegal now – the Civil Rights Act took care of that over fifty years ago. While it is ...

The African American population had endured a long struggle for justice and equal rights. Having arrived in the United States as slaves, their struggle for equality in an all-white nation became a daunting task. The liberation and rights that are now enjoyed by the contemporary African-American population did not come at a low price. The focus of this essay is comparing some of the ideas espoused by the liberators of the African American people with those of Marcus Garvey. The Progressive Era was a crucial period in the quest to advance the rights of African-Americans. However, many of the ...

For one to understand Michelle Alexander’s ideologies on the barriers that hinder the success of African-Americans, an exploration of her arguments is necessary. Accordingly, the author insists on the existence of a “rigid social stratification” that seeks to instill the values of white supremacy in the United States through the mass incarceration of colored persons (Alexander talk, par.1). Now, while the physical separation of whites and other racial groups is evident in the country’s present-day prison systems, the method is merely the latest invention by the supremacist Caucasians. Initially, in the antebellum period, the institution of slavery ...

In his narrative, Douglass recalls hearing his master state that he was seventeen in the year 1835. Consequently, that would make 1818 his approximate year of birth and Tuckahoe, Talbot County, in the State of Maryland his birthplace (Douglass 1). Subsequently, while informing readers that his mother’s name was Betsey Hailey, the man goes on to state his suspicions of having a white father. Apparently, while he never managed to discover whether rumors of his white master being his father were true, it remained evident that he was half Caucasian (Douglass 2). Now, the issue of Douglass’ parentage ...

Stephen B. Oates, the author of The Fires of Jubilee; Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion not only gives a drill of the egregious slave defection in Virginia of the Southampton County in August 1831 but also analyzes the backlashes of the Southern culture. This book is a historical narrative that details the history of the rebelled slaves, narrowed specifically to Nat Turner, who led the insurrection to eliminate the Southern white supremacy. Inclusion, Nat Turner is highly portrayed as a talented black slave who managed to marshal slaves into the bloody rebellion against their bosses. Oates vividly explains the ...

Before the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865, black slavery in the United States thrived on the pillars of white supremacy. Otherwise dubbed the antebellum period, the years ranging from 1820 to 1860 witnessed a gradual yet steady increase in the country’s reliance on slave labor. As per the ideologies of white supremacy, the dominance of white people warranted the inferiority of colored individuals and as a result, everyone belonging to the former group could hold those of the latter faction in bondage. Accordingly, the cultural norms of the country during the given era encompassed the ...

Drapetomania referred to an alleged disease of the mind that only affected black people. Apparently, upon infection, a black person becomes mad and would often act in an unexplainable manner because his or her brains would not have normal function. For that reason, when slaves ran away, they were mentally sick, and the situation was getting out of hand since the doctors were yet to understand the details of drapetomania. If Caucasians failed to exert their God-given authority over the black population, the latter group would become idle because it is in their nature to be so. In other ...

Importance of utilitarian benefits of Caltex in Apartheid South Africa

I believe that the utilitarian benefits of a Caltex plant were more important than the violation of moral rights and justice going on at the time. The benefits that the plant was willing to provide for the African natives were; non segregation of Africans in the company, fair and equal employment practices, equal wages with their White counterparts in the same job description, more management positions for Africans, and improvement of life outside the work place. These benefits at the time (1977) were unheard of in any company. Life in the Apartheid era for Africans was very much against the ...