The media stereotype of bad guys wearing black or that anything that is black is evil has been encouraged for over a hundred years. ... She was known to have a temper and take it out on the family especially her husband, which was mostly represented as a Sambo. ... This image represented the sexual side of African-American women. Jezebel was normally represented as a light-skinned, biracial woman, who normally looked European. ... Sambo represented the insolent, lazy, happy slave. ...

• Word Count: 1272
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Angelou symbolizes black girls growing in America; her rape description is overwhelming and represents suffering of the blacks. ... She witnessed evil that was generally directed at black women and uses the metaphor of caged bird singing in midst of a struggle to represent confinement as a result of oppression and racism, book contains a sequence of lesson on how to resist oppression. ...

• Word Count: 649
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Disney's animated films are renowned for exposing children to the concepts of good and evil, right and wrong, life and death, villainy and heroism. ... The evil hyenas in The Lion King share a number of characteristics with the negative African American stereotypes that had become popularized by 1994. ... Children do feel when an ethnic group is not represented in fiction, and it impacts them - and can lead to serious problems of racism and, in children of that minority, self-esteem" (Piesco). ...

• Word Count: 1585
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Therefore we can assume that, unlike Wide Sargasso Sea, the book is set a vaguely-defined recent past which is interesting in considering the different histories represented: is it a stable society where ten years here or there doesn't make a difference? ... As Susan Meyer describes, 'Bronte is using the emotional force of the idea of slavery and explosive race relations in the wake of British emancipation to represent the tensions of the gender hierarchy in England'. ... To draw on Susan Meyer once more, she states, 'By making these sly, intermittent allusions to non-whi...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Philip Zimbardo once stated, At the core of all evil is the process of dehumanization, by which certain other people or collective of them, are depicted as less than human, as non-comparable in humanity, or personal dignity to those who are labeling. ...

• Word Count: 2152
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate