... of the country. His mother, a woman who could pass for white, stayed at home with the children while her husband, Earl, went around preaching the word of Marcus Garvey. Growing up in Michigan, where his family moved after he was born, was an experience for Malcom. His father as a follower of ... the state sent him to live in a home run by a white couple for wayward children. A home were Malcom was the "mascot," a home were the word "nigger" was so common Malcom began to think it was his nickname. Malcom excelled in his new surroundings. He made straight A's, he was elected class president...

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... reification is. Reification is the act of treating an abstract relationship as though it were a concrete entity. In Dr. Weisband's lecture he refers to this as to "thingify" because the word "rei" is Latin for thing. To thingify, we are taking an inanimate object or concept such as race or gender and putting a label or stereotype on it and attempting to ... religion had, they began to form a hatred towards them because of their own self contempt. Hate can also be a result extreme anxiety. Martha Nussbaum's writing in Unit 2 helps explain emotional origins of reification. She explains th...

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... attention. He was considered the blue blood-with a "name", "that was one of the oldest and proudest in the whole of Louisiana" and Desiree was the adopted child with "obscure origins"(Esposito 1). "He was reminded that she was nameless. What did it matter about a name- (James 63). The social placement of his family was what was very important in society's idea ... more than another possession to him. He viewed her as a black slave, no longer to be envied by his peers. When Armand referred to his child he would use the word "the", showing that he did not associate himself with the baby a...

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... police and are these ethnic minorities facing longer sentences in the courts. It is common fact that people have different experiences of the criminal justice system depending on their ethnic origins, for example Black people are four times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police than a white person in Britain today (Home office statistics 2000). Is this because ... . So even from the simple example of employment inside the system it is clear to see that "race" does affect the way people are treated by the criminal justice system. Word count 2005 ...

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