Drew Hayden Taylor's Essay

In Terrance Hayes’s poem “Mr. T-,” the speaker presents the actor Laurence Tureaud, also known as Mr. T, as a sellout and an unfavorable role model for the African American youth for constantly playing negative, stereotypical roles for a black man in order to achieve success in Hollywood.  The speaker also characterizes Mr. T as enormous and simple-minded with a demeanor similar to an animal’s to further his mockery of Mr. T’s career.

“Whiteness as property” is an article written by Cheryl Harris, in which she addresses the subject of racial identity and property in the United States. Throughout the article, professor Harris attempts to explain how the concept of whiteness was initiated to become a form of racial identity, which evolved into a property widely protected in American law (page 1713).

strongly controlled by the government in the year 2081; the beautiful are forced tolook ugly, the physically skilled are required to wear weights. With these handicaps makingeveryone so equal, the world became very different, odd, and average. But the government hasno right or reason to push the whole world

Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver is a collection of writings and correspondence with his attorney Beverly Axelrod from his time in the Folsom State Prison in California in 1965. Eldridge Cleaver was convicted of drug crimes and then convicted again later after he committed a series of rapes against black and white women. Within Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver details his pursuit of self-discovery and the pursuit of knowledge and new ideologies within the prison system. In addition, Cleaver explores the social system and race relations of black and white people during the Civil Rights Movement. Cleaver renounces his actions as rapist and converts to a Malcom X follower and later a Marxist revolutionary.

Everyone 's identity and culture does have an effect on who they are because of the clothes they wear, their personality, and where they come from. The short stories "Totem," by Thomas King, and "Identities," by W.D. Valgardson, both explore how people are judged and treated differently because of their identity, color of their skin, and culture background. This paper will discuss the ways in which the authors engage with the themes of judgement and discrimination.

The setting in The Jungle by, Upton Sinclair takes place in the early 1900’s. The main story line is pictured around the Chicago meat packaging industry, or “Packingtown”. The author goes into graphic detail about the different ways the meat was “tainted”. In the Chicago meat packaging industries many of the workers were killed and turned into fertilizer as they fell into the fat rendering tanks. Sinclair also discussed how the deaths on the killing floor occurred. Workers suffered major injuries and were often ran over by runaway cattle. The title is a symbol for nature itself. Nature can be competitive and can relate to Capitalism. “Packingtown” is similar to

Phillis Wheatley has changed the world of the literature and poetry for the better with her groundbreaking advancements for women and African Americans alike, despite the many challenges she faced. By being a voice for those who can not speak for themselves, Phillis Wheatley has given life to a new era of literature for all to create and enjoy. Without Wheatley’s ingenious writing based off of her grueling and sorrowful life, many poets and writers of today’s culture may not exist. Despite all of the odds stacked against her, Phillis Wheatley prevailed and made a difference in the world that would shape the world of writing and poetry for the better.

In Sociology, stereotypes are described as "pictures in our heads" that we do not acquire through personal experience. I believe that stereotypes are a mental tool that enforces racial segregation and self-hate. As well justification for dehumanizing minorities. Such as Black women are "Mammy", "Welfare Mothers", "Uneducated", " Inferior", and "Poor". White women are "Pure", "Desirable", "Affluent" and "Superior". These stereotypes are labels that evoke images of oppression, segregation and exploitation of minorities in America. Meanwhile reinforcing the dominance in a social hierarchy.

The reality of life can often differ from childhood to adulthood. Twelve-year-old Pablo Medina experienced this first hand. In the reflective essay, “Arrival: 1960,” Medina tells about his experiences of moving from Cuba to America. Upon arriving, his expectations for America are set high. Coming from the communism he saw in Cuba, Medina was expecting a land of freedom, apart from violence, and segregation; he was expecting an overall better life for himself. After just a few days of being in New York, the young boy was exposed to the harsh realities of his new life in America.

Science journalist, Charles C. Mann, had successfully achieved his argumentative purpose about the “Coming of Age in the Dawnland.” Mann’s overall purpose of writing this argumentative was to show readers that there’s more to than just being called or being stereotyped as a savage- a cynical being. These beings are stereotyped into being called Indians, or Native Americans (as they are shorthand names), but they would rather be identified by their own tribe name.

Lucas Hayden was a strong, tough boy who grew up on a farm in the deep woods of Missouri. He was tall, with a mop of brown hair and blue eyes that could pierce deeper than any kind of dagger. Although he was very quiet and shy and first glance, Lucas had a knack for mischievousness. Grown up on that Missourian farm, he was certainly no stranger to hard work, and took pride in doing his part. Even more so, he would go to all ends of the earth to please his father.

Great Post! The whole portraying to be white by the narrator reminded me of Rachel Dolezal who was in the news this past summer for being white but fronting as a African-American woman. I am curious as to why you think if his father had been more of a present figure in the narrator’s life, he would have developed a firmer black identity? From what I understood the father was white and (of course I am guessing here) but would doubt he knew much regarding African-American heritage, simply because he may not have been exposed to much of it, other than the affair with the narrator’s mother. I think your statement regarding his lack of participation in defending the race was well put, with his racial quagmire I don’t think he will ever find a

In An Indian Father’s Plea, culture strongly influences Wind-Wolf, the speaker’s son, in all aspects of his life. Wind-Wolf has been raised with certain values that have changed the way he interacts with others. Although others may not be accepting of him, he manages to make a friend who later abandons him because his mother states, “We don’t allow those kind of people in our house!” (Lake 78). Wind-Wolf’s experience with his white classmate’s culture urged him to assimilate into their customs and change his appearance because “Instead of being proud of his race, heritage, and culture, he feels ashamed.” (Lake 78). Despite the belief that personal experience is not a part of a person’s culture, culture includes aspects such as customs and attitudes.

This collection components Scott 's transaction of music and narrating, utilizing the real instruments obviously additionally the tune titles themselves to make a bundle of tunes that sound like the score for a gathering of short stories or smaller than normal movies. I felt along these lines when I first heard the collection and was further persuaded by Scott 's remarks on the official statement, "Everybody needed me to do a straight-ahead collection, yet that is similar to meeting a lady and attempting to be similar to her last beau. You must be unique." There he goes again , demanding being distinctive.

Richard Wright, author of the novel, “Native Son” creates a naive tone through the use of stereotyping and man vs. self conflict, to characterize Bigger as curious. The definition of naive is someone who lacks experience or in Bigger’s case, education. Richard Wright uses stereotyping when characterizing Bigger in order to display that Bigger’s opinions about rich whites as well as poor whites are based off of misconceptions. Stereotyping occurs multiple times on page 33 of Book One, “Fear”, for example, “His mother had always told him that rich white people like negroes better than they did poor whites”(Wright 33). In this statement displays the Bigger’s mother has brought him up on opinions, not facts. Bigger’s mother is not necessarily wrong,