Toni Morrison Racial Injustice

Elliott continued to conduct her “Blue Eyed” exercise in Riceville and later became the pioneer of workplace diversity training when she expanded it into a workshop for business employees. Throughout this process, though, she has faced mounting backlash for her controversial tactics within her exercise, especially from her community. I believe that Jane Elliott’s “Blue Eyed”

Lorraine Hansberry Broadway play A Raisin In The Sun illustrates how African American families struggled throughout life for justice and civil rights. Hansberry being an African American, was underrated an extraordinary writer. Many decades have passed and changed has occurred regarding race and discrimination. However in Today’s society we continue to face and see discrimination still takes place with injustice for African Americans and other minorities. Dreams and aspirations is what keeps the Younger family motivated regardless of race and injustice.

Martin Luther King Jr. used the rhetorical triangle as well as anecdotal evidence to put many persuasive factors into his writing. Therefore it is so powerful along with effective and still brings passion to men and women 54 years later. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech was/is a very powerful and effective piece of writing. For example in the text he uses pathos,”a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. [...] One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation.”(MLK).

Oprah didn’t always have many opportunities when she was a child. Oprah’s very strict father made her realize she loved to learn. Oprah once said, "he had some concerns about me making the best of my life, and would not accept anything less than what he thought was my best." Many girls look up to her for giving them the Opportunity for education. Oprah Winfrey made the choice to fight for gender equality in Africa where she has built a school for girls.

Although the individual that she is talking about has bashed her and mistreated her, she is seen as a great example to many other African Americans who have faced segregation by still standing up to what she believes in despite the bitterness she may have received. Hughes and Angelou state their message in two different scenarios; however, both have showed the power of rising up. Although many laws were being passed during this time period due to many rising up, the writings of the two poets have been able to inspire individuals to fight for equality. They both describe the harsh conditions they have faced in their own personal experience with segregation and show that they are not afraid to speak up. Even though both poems may be different in a multitude

The Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s helped change the way colored people were treated in America and positively shaped America in the way civil rights and race issues were dealt with. In The Help, Kathryn Stockett focuses on civil rights as the main social and political issue by using different literary elements such as parallelism and different points of view to show contradicting sides of one story as well as properly explain from different narratives. Moreover, she also uses various events and conflicts among characters to show segregation, which was a pivotal cause of the movement and acts that took place. Stockett uses distinct parallelism between the white and black communities in Jackson, Mississippi when Medgar Evers was shot,

Growing up with her widowed mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother during the civil war, it is no surprise that Kate Chopin chose to write about prejudice against women and African Americans. This is greatly evident in “Desiree’s Baby,” the story of Desiree, a woman who suffers greatly partly because of her gender. Chopin is very purposeful in her writing, relying on literary structures in her story of prejudice. She exposes prejudice though character relationships, imagery, character’s confusion, the characters readers sympathize with, and even character names. Armand and Desiree’s relationship symbolizes how people perceive victims of gender discrimination.

Specifically, Zora Neale Hurston celebrated African American culture in a unique way by using authentic African American dialect and raw storytelling. The dialect used in the second paragraph of the story gives ample insight into the racial tension of that era, “Setting up dere looking dem white folks right in de face! They’s gowine lynch you, yet.” Hurston uses her grandmother’s African American dialect to celebrate her culture and to accent the story. Exploring African American culture and their unique heritage is another common theme of writers from the Harlem Renaissance era. In Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, Hughes focuses on the long history of African American race and its roots.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee teaches her readers that sometimes it can difficult to believe or understand the evil in the world. In the book, Harper describes how difficult it can be to believe the evil in the world because it’s like a sickness: you can’t tell who’s sick, unless they show you signs of their symptoms. In the book, Atticus always looked at good in everyone, no matter what color they were or class. He never liked when people took advantage of others, or when their own kids, Scout and Jem discriminated others or used racist slang. Almost everyone in town is infected with the disease, racism.

Chronologically speaking, the next progression up the corporate ladder after working as a cashier is a department position like Mcmahon's job. Sammy shows resentment for Mchahon, especially as he states, “All that was left for us to see was old Mchahon patting his mouth and looking after sizing up their joints, poor kids, I began to feel sorry for themt” (Updike 432). Sammy’s animosity towards Mchahon is apparent when he expressing sympathy for the girls, simply because they were being observed by him. It is Mcmahons qualities which make him such an odious character to Sammy. He is a dirty old man and perverted one at that.

As I continued reading Colonize This! I found a section of this book that talks about women of color facing racism in their communities. The racism section captured my attention because it is also giving examples of women who resist racism in their belonging spots. I think it is great to read about those women who suffer racism because. In addition, all the people know that there are now many laws had been issued to protect women’s rights.

Early scholarship of the civil rights movement would portray male participants as orchestrators of collective action. As Rosa Parks effectually represented the virtue of Black women, historians would present similar figures to represent Black males in order the image of Black men as leaders and producers of social change (Estes, 2005). However, the events that propelled the notoriety of the social movements during the Jim Crow era involved numerous women who both led and organized events. Charles Payne in I’ve Got the Light of Freedom, emphasizes that the development of male and female leadership was based on an organizing tradition involving community members (Payne, 2007). The civil rights movement represented an era of conflict for Black men as some sought to distinguish themselves as protectors and defy the “demonization of Black masculinity” (Estes, 2005, p.66).