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    Sarah Hill ENG 101.53 7/12/11 Black Men in Public Spaces In Brent Staples essay‚ “Black Men and Public Space‚” Staples expresses the difficulties African Americans face in society.   Through specific diction and detailed description of imagery‚ Staples conveys his experience throughout his life where he was negatively stereotyped as “a mugger‚ a rapist‚ or worse”.   His lifelong exposure to this matter taught him to take precaution in the people he encounters and the places he visits. The words

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    In a society as culturally diverse as the one we live in‚ you would think that people would learn to be more accepting of others. Nevertheless‚ there are still those who simply cannot. In his essay Black Men and Public Space‚ Brent Staples describes something that most young black men experience on more than one occasion in their lives. Being perceived as a criminal simply based on his "unwieldy inheritance"‚ the color of their skin. Staples recalls his experience as a 22-year-old graduate student

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    11/3/2012 Black People Perceived In life they are some things that most people believe are right however‚ it does not is right‚ so a lot of people have problem with other ideas. Brent Staples in his essay gives us an example for this‚ some people have a problem with dark skin or any color unlike them self. Specifically the black man because they think he is a bad man and never talk with them. Additionally‚ some people think black people are murderers and use drugs.

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    Tyler Willis Essay #1 In Brent Staples essay‚ "Black Men and Public Space"‚ we read about a black man that has trouble with the way he gets stereotyped by other people. He learns to deal with these issues by finding ways to ease the tension he feels by other people. This essay shows that not all people that look mean will be dangerous. You never know how a person really acts or thinks until you get to know them. In the beginning of this essay the narrator tells the audience of a time he encounters

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    realization of something that I‚ myself probably wouldn’t have ever thought of. I never sat down to think how an innocent black man would feel being avoided and even isolated from the crowd just because he is large and black. I imagined and almost felt his pain when I looked into his eyes‚ his sight was yelling at me as asking me why his physic characteristics would ever cause people such fear. As much as people may want to avoid passing instant judgments on others‚ it seems to be a

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    ’whistle melodies from Beethoven‚ Vivaldi‚ and other classical composers’. Instead of dealing with being misperceived as a killer‚ rapist‚ or murderer‚ he adjusted his daily way of life around others. I believe this type of racism towards young male men is common. I am a woman‚ and am afraid for my life about

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    What is the matter with today’s youth? I am referring to the way our young children parade themselves around in public‚ basically naked‚ flaunting their unmentionables. What is this world coming to; the old ways of being conservative and saving the rest for fantasy has flown out the window. For example‚ last week while at Wal-Mart I came across a group of peculiar young women one with a skirt so high there was no need to wear clothing‚ and the other completely ignored the outer layer of clothing

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    College by Student’s name A Summary on Brent Staples’s “Black Men in Public Space” Brent Staples’s essay‚ “Black Men in Public Space”‚ was written to show how stereotypes about black men have affected him personally. He tells several short stories about how he was mistaken for some type of criminal. Using these personal experiences‚ he gives his audience insight into the cause and effect of these misconceptions. “To her‚ the youngish black man – a broad six feet two inches with a beard and billowing

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    really that much racism. That it has almost disappeared‚ but there is this story that will show you different. In the essay Black Men and Public Spaces you are shown how there is still racism going on in today’s society. The essay will show you one black man’s story about how he was treated differently and had to come through the struggles of being black. In this young black man’s story he talks about how he moves to a new place in Chicago. He keeps going through the same situation over and over

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    In both “Black Men In Public Space” and “It’s Hard Enough Being Me” we see characters who‚ at first‚ view their identities a certain way. It is after they move to a new area and see the reactions of those around them that they begin to question their individual identities and start to consider how the opinions of those around them influence how they perceive themselves. Both stories call in to question the ways that gender and particularly ethnicity can influence how a person is expected to behave

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