Race

The book Passing by Nella Larsen is unique in some way, throwing up in the air prejudices and social expectations regarding ethnicity, gender, and factors that make up identity. According to Marita Golden, Larsen introduces two fragile characters ...

According to Winant (p.315), racism still remains an issue in America in the twenty-first century. The truth of the matter is, regardless of the fact that we work and live around "assorted qualities", our spiritual leaders and closest companions...

Considering the three short stories of the write Kate Chopin, the writer majorly denotes about freedom of self-hood and self-assertion especially in women, racism, hypocrisy and finally sexual explicit among other human conditions. This are the mo...

Race and social class differences have greatly impacted the lives of many people and affected their relations and chances of transacting businesses. However, the most critical factor that is making it difficult for the world today to integrate and...

Jim Crow Laws were statutes and mandates set up somewhere around 1874 and 1975 to isolate the white and dark races in the American South (Abdul-Jabbar and Obstfeld 44). In principle, it was to make "isolated yet equivalent" treatment, yet practica...

Selma struck me as an emotional and yet necessary outlook at the historical accounts of racial discrimination and the events that have come to shape inter-racial relationships. For instance, the bombing at the onset of the film was bewildering, to...

Racial and gender bias are critical issues that need to be examined closely so that their root causes can be established. Black Americans suffer most when it comes to racial bias. This is because of some factors, the economic factor being the majo...

In a world that has seen massive development and changes it is disheartening to note that racism is still a scourge affecting people all over the world. One of the most documented and highly criticized forms of racism has been against the African ...

Today, with the large scale immigration of Asians into America, most of them face cultural issues especially when their practices from Asian cultures collide with the American culture. This cultural clash is especially powerful for women who are c...

The above stated works is an autobiography by a young fugitive slave and mother which documents her life in slavery and how she came to get her freedom and that of her offspring. By addressing gender and race issues through techniques of sentiment...