Mayorga Gallo Chapter Summary

“My skin color was an asset for any move I was educated to want to make”(Mcintosh 1). A quote from Peggy McIntosh’s essay shows how the way we are treated in our societies has a direct impact on the way we perform in that society. The essay caused me to think deeply about myself and how I truly am privileged to be white; although we may not notice it there are millions of privileges linked to our skin colour. Upon finishing the reading I was questioning not only white privilege but also things like racism and what I myself could do to help people of other ethnicity’s not feel underprivileged. To begin, Peggy McIntosh mentions in her essay the fact that men have privilege over women causing women disadvantages in the same way whites have power

In “A Vision for Black Lives,” The Movement for Black Lives also acknowledges the interaction between race and author characteristics by pledging to stand with “[Black people who are women, queer, trans, femmes, gender nonconforming, Muslim, formerly and currently incarcerated, cash poor and working class, differently abled, undocumented, and immigrant.” The Movement for Black Lives is generally more inclusive than was The Combahee River Collective because in addition to acknowledging the interaction between race, gender, and sexuality, The Movement for Black Lives acknowledges the interaction between race and transgender identity, queer identity, incarceration status, income, legal status, religion, disability, and immigrant status. However, in spite of this this difference, both organizations were intersectional in at least some

From this quote we can get that white people have an advantage, and black people have to be patient enough to see how they are being treated by having to wait for the white people to pass when they are the ones who got to the bridge first. The cars show/represent how they fit in the line of respect. It is known in the book for the characters, that if you are black you are likely to not own a car, but maybe a wagon; if not, then you go around on your

An African American–centered, Black feminist perspective clarifies why the African American experience may run counter to the theoretical principles of self-esteem. The principle of reflected judgments assumes that Blacks’ relevant others are Whites. Under this principle, Blacks would not only have to be aware of the negative attitudes that whites have for them, but they would have to accept them, consider them significant, and believe them to be personally relevant. Whites do not contribute significantly to the formation of Black self-esteem. Self-esteem is developed in immediate interpersonal environments.

I was inspired to interview her considering her and I are an interracial couple just like how Rose and Chris were. I did the interview over a FaceTime call. Doing it this way made the interview more of a conversation. I liked how it was a conversation because even though we talk about different racial issues going on in America and we have talked about her childhood, we have not really gone in depth with many things about interracial dating. As I said before, I had

In "Identities" the story refers to mistaking another person 's identity and who they are. In the story the guy,"does not feel fear but relief" just because he was a white police officer he thought that he would see him as innocent person because they had the same color of skin and the type of neighbourhood they were in. People tend to see things as we are and not for who someone truly is. A person 's identity does have an affect on a person 's appearances because it 's the first impression other 's get of you. Every day people are judged and discriminated on the way they look, color of skin, what their wearing, and were they come from.

Alice Walker quotes and adapts Virginia Woolf’s writing to reframe it for black women. She inserts and changes words to reshape Woolf’s writing to reach black feminists and to tell the painful narrative of black women’s history. It is clear that Alice Walker has respect for Virginia Woolf, and while she does not tear Woolf down in her essay, she also does not sing Woolf’s praises. By using quotes from Woolf, Walker is able to contrast her own experiences, and those of other black women, with Woolf’s ideas about feminism. Virginia Woolf was British, white, and privileged; she had a prominent voice among peers and was held in high regard.

Nascimento also participated of groups of black activists and maintained links with the Unified Black Movement. Ratts points out that, despite of the great number of publications, Beatriz Nascimento was not considered ‘academic’ at that time.

What make the Justice felt that they were justified in ruling the way they did? It is because they have right to do it and they have some reason shows if both race cannot be in the same place because there will be a problem if they become in the same area so then the supreme court want to make a peace between both race than they separate them like in transportation, while actually the government give same facility for both race since the white race usually have more money than black race than they seems like get more good facilities than black race and it dose not mean the white race can discriminate the black race. At the end the Plessy v. Ferguson make the segregation are legal because of the wrong doctrine that made by the sentence “Separate but

This separation also applies to Black immigrants in the area. However in the Black residential areas, West Indians (Caribbeans excluding Hattians) live in the more wealthy areas while African Americans and Hattians live in the poorer areas. Because West Indians have greater emphasis and education, achievement and upward mobility, they are able to afford rent and buy home in nicer areas in the black residential area. West Indian’s perceived ‘blackness’ make it hard for them to exist in White communities, but in Black communities their ‘blackness’ does restrict mobility in the community. So more often than not, West Indian tend to live in Black communities because there is mobility, the can open up shops, and their merit is recognized.