Staples has written for the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago magazine, Down Beat magazine, Ms., New York Times Magazine, and Harper’s; he continues to try and shed light on racism and violence in our world. Cofer has written many books, she is an award winning poet, and is currently the Franklin professor of English and Creative Writing at The University of Georgia; she continues to try to do away with the stereotypes of Latin women through her writing. These two writers are trying to show us that stereotypes and prejudice are not just jokes that we tell each and laugh about, but rather they can and will hurt those being stereotyped. The racist jokes, thoughts, and stereotypes we hear have a bigger impact than to makes us laugh or be fearful, they help to spread racism. We need to try and look deeper and the color of someone skin; we are all human, we all have our strengths, we all have our weaknesses, but we cannot let one of our weaknesses be our susceptibility to take part in racism not matter how good natured we may think it…
Peter thought it was a little offence that African American call each other that when know what the word Nigger meant. At the same time the two guys where in deep conversation they come across Jean and Rick who are a Caucasian upper class couple. Rick is a District Attorney for the county and his wife Jen is an uptight woman that thinks she is better than ever one else. As Jen and Rick walk past Anthony and peter you can see the fear in her face that the two African Americans were going to try to do something to them or her.…
Hill then goes on to provide a general ethnographic explanation. Jane Hill’s main focus is on the ‘elevation of whiteness’ from ‘Mock Spanish’ through direct indexicality of negative and racializing slurs. It consists of the orderliness of language and how these boundaries are necessary. Throughout the article, she cites multiple scholars to back up her claims focusing on the racial aspect of Mock Spanish. She makes six claims…
It's about a boy who is struggling with his math grade. Greg’s dad was mad because of this, so when Greg was supposed to be studying Greg got up and took a walk around the block and it started raining. Greg seeked shelter to an abandoned house and thought it was abandoned but there was an old man that lived there. Greg got to know the old man, Greg learned that his name was Lemon Brown. Lemon brown said “ something about treasure” (). Thugs over hear Greg and Lemon’s conversation and believing it's gold or coins. They break in, and Greg saw that Lemon Brown would put his life in front of his treasure. “you really think that treasure of yours was worth fighting for?” “ against a pipe?”. Greg realizes that Lemon Brown wasn't rude, yet nice and concerning. He realized that being homeless doesn't mean, they aren't mean they just lost what they had. When Greg saw him he didn't know he was nice and…
Throughout Colon’s passage, he used the phrase “Puerto Rican” to convey the man’s motivation to support the mother and her children. The first example of how “Puerto Rican” effects the man’s motivation is when he figures whether…
This play is set with a Quapaw elder sitting with children around a fire and telling them the story of their land and their people.…
2) One of the breaking points in the play, where racial discrimination was affirmed, was a conversation between Lt. Edwards and Henry: “Come on, Hank, you know why you’re here. Yeah. I’m a Mexican.” (31) Indeed, I do believe…
Reading this passage, I could feel the frustration and the longing for people to understand the La Chicanas behind Martinez’s writing. How throughout history, the Chicanas have been forced to endure so many different types of oppressions by many different types of people. What Martinez calls triple oppression, oppression by “the forces of racism, imperialism, and sexism,” and that every woman who is not white, is able to feel this type of oppression. And she’s right- as a white woman I will never fully comprehend what it feels like to be constantly oppressed purely because of my skin color. Like other minority women, the Chicana’s were told that their movement and beliefs were not up to standard when it came to the liberation movements.…
Logically I will begin to observe and examine the decisions McCandles’s made that prematurely ended his life. McCandles was for one dissatisfied by the way he was living within society, he would rather live as far away from our society then be surrounded by materialistic things and authority. Additionally, Christopher was alienated but the fact that people such as his parents did not understand him, however, loved him unconditionally. Christopher rejected materialism; when he leaves his parents and donates all his savings to charity, abandons his car and burns his money in the desert these acts lead to his believed ultimate…
West Side Story, The tragic hero is Tony, a young man who has hated Puerto…
Richard Rodriguez writes this essay in order to inform people of the racism that he has experienced. Since Rodriguez was the one experiencing the racism, his essay coincides nicely with the rhetorical devices that he chose. Rodriguez is of the Mexican culture and he recalls times when he was a kid where he was being discriminated. Rodriguez writes that as a young child he was insulted and name called for being of the Mexican culture. He writes how he would never retaliate with another insult back because he would be so embarrassed. The reason as to why Rodriguez was being discriminated was because of his…
Furthermore, she recalls “Cynthia” as another girl to whom she has little affiliation with. Similarly, the readers can conclude that a change our surroundings may not always confer a change in identity. In contrast the information concerning the immigrant’s past justifies her desire to learn; Mora uses a vivid description, “she opens the ugly, soap-wrinkled fingers of my right hand... my hand cramps around the thin hardness” From this use of imagery, it becomes clear that the immigrant is accustomed to hard work in…
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose is a play about a jury consisting of twelve men trying to decide whether a boy accused of murder is guilty or innocent. Each juror has their own past experiences, each with their own influence. However, some jurors bring up their pasts during the case. That is because a man’s experiences have a profound effect on the way he thinks and acts. Beneficial or not, Jurors Three and Eleven’s pasts affect not only the way they act, but the way the rest of the jurors act throughout the deliberation process as well.…
While I was reading the passage Context, by Dorothy Allison, I realized that I the just like her I had been judged just because I was a Latin woman. In fact I had went though something so similar because of many traditions my family has had. Just like Allison, when her lover called her families’ accent a “dialect,” my family was called crazy simply because we like to hold massive parties to celebrate or the way our family spoke to one another. (Paragraph 3,Allison) The reason why I relate so well with this passage is because I too don’t believe in being judge just by seeing or hearing certain things. I believe that if you should job me, or my family, it shall be after you have gotten to know the real us. This is why I will let you know the time I was judged for “wasting my parents money,” on an event that I will always cherish throughout my life.…
The movie started with a cars accident and argument of a Chinese women, a police and a Latino women. A black cop has an affair with his Latino girlfriend, but never gets it straight which country she’s from and he also calls her a white person when he was talking on the phone with his mother. A mistaken of a white racist cop that he thinks a light skinned black woman is white. He also can’t get…