Just Walk On By Brent Staples Analysis

Brent Staples’ essay, “Just Walk on By: A Black Man and Public Space”, is about the “ability” that a black man holds; which as Staples puts it, is the “ability to alter public space in ugly ways.” African American men, or people for that matter, have stated (even in present day) that they feel the same way. This, among other factors has contributed to the fact that this essay has become very popular among different communities. As the writing prompt states, the essay has been anthologized, and obviously placed in One Hundred Great Essays. For reasons unknown, this particular essay has caught the eye of many.

Racism has been around for a long time and it still exists today. It has been embedded to a degree that it reproduces itself. It is in the culture of the future generation. What is seen and taught to us in our environment is how we learn our behavior and actions towards others. Because of this, whether we realize it or not, racist behavior is taught and passed on. Dismantling this requires dialogue, reflection on ourselves (and others), and relearning our behaviors. In some cases, racism is subtle and in others, it is obvious. Since the Civil Rights Movement, progress has emerged but ignorance and denial of the past and recurrence of history still exist among many. This is covered in the reading, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the

Racism has existed from the beginning of early human civilization all the way to present day. In a main part racism has been allowed to thrive because of cultural unawareness between different races, and because of society's acceptance to generalized stereotypes. Many individuals feel that racism is a major problem and two authors who try to tackle racism are Mark Twain and Esha Dholia. In Twain’s novel, Huckleberry Finn, a young white adolescent named Huck escapes from his abusive father and goes on an adventure with a runaway slave named Jim. In Esha Dholia’s article of “Too Many Tropes” Dholia summarizes the top three stereotypes South Asians face in western media. The authors specifically utilize common stereotypes in their writing techniques

Staples time and time again in the article jabs and strikes the reader in different ways to make the reader feel sympathetic for him. An example of this is how Staples writes his article in the first person. This is done specifically to make the audience really step into his shoes, and experience the occasion from a different point of view. “ I was twenty-two years old, a graduate student newly arrived at the University of Chicago. It was in the echo or that terrified woman’s footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I’d come into-- the ability to alter public space in ugly ways” (staples 1). Here in this example he throws the reader into a tone of sympathy. Influencing the audience to readily believe in point for him to educate white people about what it is to be a white man, in order to really make them see how they are misjudged just by the occasion based on

In Robert Heilbroners essay “Don’t Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgments” he discusses the many ways we use the idea of stereotyping in our everyday lives. Heilbroner reminds his readers on how stereotyping affects everyone’s lives in different areas beginning from how people view the world as a whole, to how people view each individual. According to Heilbroner, stereotyping will never be a positive aspect in life. He gives his opinion that stereotyping makes people lazy thinkers and that it not only harms the people we are stereotyping, but it also harms ourselves. Heilbroner also states throughout his essay three ways that stereotyping behavior could be eliminated which is through becoming aware, suspicious, and wary.

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In Brent Staples “Just walk on by” he uses ethos to show the reader that he is a kind men. Staples has been perceived dangerous because of his color. One of the first instance he recalls, “one night in Chicago a women misjudged Staples to be a mugger, leaving him with humiliated. Others thought he was dangerous. Staples later moved to New York where he had similar encounters.

Social work is important to me because I see there are a lot of problems both systemic and with individual people that need to be addressed through research and clinical work. I want to spend my life working on improving services and quality of life of foster children and their families, supporting the grief and loss process with cultural sensitivity, working to reduce negative prejudice and discrimination, especially when it holds people back from living out their full potential, and understanding and providing needed resources to people who struggle with mental health and disability through evidenced based practice and scientific work. I want to provide services whether that be individually, in the community or

Everyday, people are judged by the way they look or act. They are judged because people are either ignorant or too lazy to find out who a person really is on the inside. Some have tried to help this issue by saying, “don’t judge a book by its cover”, however the act of stereotyping this theme is evident in today’s society. It was also evident during the Great Depression and in the plot of the novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. In both real life and in the novel, and it is not until someone walks in another's shoes that they know what their life is actually like. There are multiple examples in “To Kill A Mockingbird” and current life that support this theme.

To first begin the topic,Stereotypes present a good position for an argument by representing a common struggle between the reader and author.many people have been put under a situation where they were portrayed as a different image because of an assumption that someone made. This helps connect the reader with the author to share similar connections which in turn helps convey the author’s ideas more thoroughly to the reader.For instance

In this paper, I will discuss the role stereotypes possess in society today. I will describe the negative consequences that result from stereotyping others. With my opinion, along with supporting articles I accurately explained how I feel about stereotypes and the affect they have in our lives.

Before attending Professor Purdie-Vaughns lecture on the impact of stereotypes on identity, I thought her discussion would be more experience based, emphasizing different people’s encounters with stereotypes. However, the lecture focused more on the psychology behind how humans respond to stereotypes by presenting experiments and factual information. The majority of Professor Purdie-Vaughns lecture was spent explaining an experiment where 7th graders were either asked to explain their most important values or their least important values. Following the students until they graduated from high school, the experiment concluded that African Americans who were asked to identify their most important values were more likely to enroll in college

People around the world seem to always talk and assume what other people are really like. Some are just afraid of different and others just have too much hatred in them. The reasons for these stereotypes against other people have been around for decades and might seem to never end. Although many people have suffered this situation, they have achieved their goals to become a better person and succeed. Stereotypes can make a person gain strength and courage to overcome these situations and make them see how wrong people can be assuming and stereotyping other people just because they are different. People are branded with assumptions and do not realize what a unique and valuable brand they really are.

Stereotypes have a bearing impact on our society. Stereotyping others is not correct, is harmful, and it affects in a negative way in people’s life. Stereotype is a generalization about a notion of someone based on outside characteristics the person’s posses. For example, the main character on “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl or Halfie” is used to stereotype women based on outside characteristics. Stereotypes generalizations often come from the truth but not everyone belongs to a categories based on appearance. Many people believe that when a person stereotypes another is because that person is ignorant or that person needs more information about the person being stereotyped. An example of stereotypes is when almost all white

Although the family is upheld as the most important unit in society, learned behavior and values within that group can be negatively and positively displayed. Conflicts on differences in attitudes may, therefore, develop among members of the family, but in times of crisis, each person within the family should be compassionate and act with decency toward each other. On reading the essay, “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” by Alice Walker she addresses many issues facing blacks in today’s society. In the essay “Just Walk on by” by Brent Staples he remembers his realization of being perceived as dangerous just because of his color, and how this also puts himself in danger.