Essays on Racism

The purpose of my paper is to give more information on Malcolm X’s life and legacy. He was the driving force behind the black power movement in the 1960’s and his teachings set the ball rolling for the black power movement. He advocated for blacks…

Throughout history minority backgrounds have endured many struggles which are still in effect today. For example, in the United States racial struggles for African Americans have been ongoing since the civil war. Law enforcement in the past has struggled with racial tension and those struggles…

Generation Z has had both the blessing and the curse of growing up during the age of social media. People today use social media to talk to friends, to make business calls, to check the news, even to shop or to learn. You may be…

A hero is somebody who commits to an act of some type bravery or who has shown an admirable quality such as great courage or braveness or even strength of a some kind of character. Joseph Campbell has come up with eight kinds of characteristics…

One of the themes of Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is that racism can be challenged by the unification of language. In chapter four, Noah is walking down the street one some Zulu men come up behind him and start speaking in Zulu. Noah,…

Alternative sexuality is commonly defined as behaviors, identities and communities that contrast or are in opposition with the culturally and socially dominant sexualities. In the American culture, sexuality plays a significant role in the formation of ethnic and racial identities while ethnicity and race influences…

Well there are numerous reasons to why people show acts of classism however one of the most common being we have grown up with those views surrounding us. A lot of our attitudes and opinions are shaped during our early childhood and depends greatly on…

February 26, 1970 It surely was a memorable day for us Trinidadians as hundreds of people take to the streets of Port of Spain. The Afro Trinidadian people ‘Negros’ are recognizing that the Whites get more privilege and uphold high positions in companies while the…

In fact, the moment I saw The Hunting Ground listed on the syllabus I felt a pit in my stomach. I have been in at least 3 classes where my peers or my professors found assault to be a debatable or not highly important issue….

August Wilson was a prolific and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, who created ten masterful plays that illustrated and dramatized the African-American experience throughout the twentieth century; one play for each decade. The most famous of those plays was “Fences”. “Fences” portrays an accurate depiction of…