... like his father, preaching tolerance and the Christian belief of loving your neighbor. Malcolm's father was a rural farmer from Michigan; Malcolm recalls his earliest memory as waking up to his house burning presumably as an act of racism. Malcolm's father was a follower of Marcus Garvey founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and also a prominent member of the organization. Malcolm would ... a lawyer, he became discouraged by the discrimination and the racial blockades he would have to face to become a professional; and dropped out of school. He became involved in the gr...

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... transitions in their clothing and styles for business interests. While establishing themselves in the industry, they wore baggy clothing and closely associated with street culture. When these elites started to realize that parents would dislike the influence of their music, they started to wear suites to appear ... about black people that are deeply rooted in American culture. "Mainstream hip hop's distorted and narrow focus on one aspect of black ghetto street life exaggerates and perpetuates negative beliefs about black people and conceals realities of life in poor black neighborhoods...

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... have something to do after school instead of standing the corns or joining gangs or doing drugs. I think that we need to change the environment setting of urban areas the house needs to be rebuilding because the way it is build is like living in corned housing where you can only socialize t he people you know and the outside world looks ... social criteria: an absence of generational socioencomic upward mobility, the "lack of real opportunities to succeed," (Manning Marable page 63). As you see this is what I"m talking about like the quotes that I took from Marable say it is all that bl...

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... loyalty, and unspoken rules of the streets known as the "code of the streets". It is not just these communities that live by street codes, its many other urban cities. Anderson points out that other cities are also facing problems such as teen pregnancy, strive for respect, drugs ... committing crimes. In the book, it's discussed how the whole community must have an equal understanding of the code of the street since it is not just street families who live in these aggressive environments, its people of all backgrounds. In order the people of these communities to survive their ... respec...

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... the white conductor throws her out in an impolite way. Helene who feels humiliated, apologizes for her oversight and smiles at the conductor "like a street pup" (Morrison 21). African American soldiers who sit by watch Helene with hatred in their faces and disgusted that a woman of African American descent smiling ... she was a child. With Sula, Nel is free to express herself, which is something she cannot do when she is at home because in her house she is required to be an obedient girl. Sula and Nel never argue or compete with each other nor do they have the " difficulty to ... trouble...

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... being involved in criminal activity. These officers have no legal cause for carrying out the stop besides enforcing traffic regulations. Being subjected to a driving while black stop is, according to House Representative John Conyers Jr., "an experience that virtually every African-American male has been subjected to." Even African-American actors, athletes, business professionals, and Congressmen, are not immune. In Christopher ... organizations to cheer and many officers to get defensive. Police officers are charged with safeguarding those basic rights we associate with safety such as...

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... Truman Capote, a well-known Southern writer and childhood friend. Together with Dill, Scout and Jem make a game of observing "Boo" Radley, a town recluse who has remained inside his house for fifteen years, trying to provoke him to come outside. Local myth holds that Boo eats live squirrels and prowls the streets at night, and the children's perception of him ... the influence of racial prejudice. The children view their father as frustratingly staid and bookish, until he is asked by the sheriff to shoot a rabid dog that is roaming the street. After Atticus kills the dog, Scout and Jem ...

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... include the exposure to certain cultural traits. The cultural traits emerge from the exclusions based on race and support mobility of social groups. In some environments, the individuals in the street do not keep eye contact with strangers. The act becomes sensible in unsafe places, but in another setting it gets viewed as an antisocial act. In most cases, this action ... gets seen as being "street smart". The cultural trait of being street smart makes certain individuals fail at job interviews because they get viewed as being undesirable candidates. Some individuals fail to avail thems...

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... at rates grossly out of proportion to their numbers among drug offenders. Although drug use and selling cut across all racial, socioeconomic and geographic lines, law enforcement strategies have targeted street-level drug dealers and users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. For a variety of reasons, it is easier to make arrests in these neighborhoods as contrasted with, for example ... to what extent their power should give them. "In most cities, police are breaking down doors without search warrants, stopping and searching anyone they choose on the sidewalk or street,...

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... for anyone willing to hire African American men and women. With the stable community established in the Detroit area, the Jewish community continued to thrive. Expansion out of the Hastings Street Quarters to integration into developing areas where large groups of Jewish second generation immigrants would stronghold and diversify was next as the Jewish community flourished. But challenging factors did not ... . Due to ethical tensions caused by WWI and the likes of Henry Ford, "little Jerusalem's " grew in the Detroit area. With the Exodus of the Jewish communities from the Hasting Stree...

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... find a way to succeed in a world full of prejudice. The best example of this is her dream in becoming the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco. "Attaining the street-car conductor's job becomes not only a victory for civil rights, as a result, but also a personal victory for Maya's sense of self" (Walker). Through experience, Angelou learned to outsmart those ... blacks, and most of the men she faces along her tough journey of reaching a mature state. The American Dream is achieved by wealth. Anyone can have the cars, the big house with the white picket fence but all of that...

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... the issue clear in 1876. (Zinn, 199) When Hayes beat Tilden in the presidential election by promising to end the Reconstruction in the South, it was evident that the White House would no longer support any calls for the protection of blacks. The compromise of 1877 brought Hayes to office, but "doomed the black man to a second class citizenship that was ... Crow" legislation. Although some saw stupidity in the situation and mocked it, "If there must be Jim Crow cars on the railroads, there should be Jim Crow cars on the street railways. Also on all passenger boats... If there are to be J...

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... life of a humble, fascinating and well-educated man named Paul Robeson. As soon as Paul was born he was faced with adversity, he would be born into a neighborhood that didn't house that many blacks and the political ideas of the town leaders were not always in-favor of blacks. One of the leading members of the society was a teacher at Princeton ... on Broadway. In his lifetime Paul was able to demonstrate "the efficiency that the [black] race is capable of attaining"(p 103). After a brief career working as a law clerk on Wall Street Paul became rather interested in giving back to the so...

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... novel saying, "I knowed he was white inside,"" he is displaying "proof of liberalism or compassion, but evidence of an inability to relinquish whiteness as a badge of superiority. " However, Justin Kaplan quotes Mark Twain elaborating on growing up in a slaveholding society, saying, "Conscience can be trained to approve any wild thing you want it to approve if you begin its education early ... ...

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... , and so he began observing different behaviors demonstrated by people he encountered while walking. For example, Staples notices that people avoid making eye contact with him or people cross the street to avoid coming in contact with him. Staples cites from two essays in which the authors are both intensely uncomfortable in the presence of black men on certain streets and ... efforts to make himself appear less threatening. For example, he allows more space between himself and others on the streets and begins to whistle classical tunes while walking down the street. In Staples" revised ...

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... perspective we are offered that it is probably a coincidence that no blacks had ever been elected for the office, and that a street closing is just a routine traffic control decision. And obviously from another perspective, one (victim) can imply that the street is closed to keep the black people out from where they are not supposed to be, and that the reason they ... ...

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... spirit of America. It sent the message that the United States might be down, but it was by no means out. Children would still play in the park down the street and families could still enjoy an afternoon out together. Community centers were built in the rural areas of the country and began to offer informative classes on child development, personal ... the feeling of satisfaction that Mr. Jon Doe recieved getting up in the morning, knowing that he was headed to a job and not some bread-and-soup line down the street. Or the satisfaction of a mother at a community class that has taught her...

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... introduced the 107th Congress. While the body has diversified, the U.S. Congress remains a largely white male institution. Currently, there are no black or Hispanic senators. Nine percent of House members are black and four percent are Hispanic. For comparison, Blacks comprise thirteen percent of the U.S. population and Hispanics twelve percent. Women historically fare better, particularly in the ... considering women make up about half the population. As society becomes more "minority-aware- a focus has turned on a sections of the population previously hidden or unheard. Three House me...

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... is a disease of ignorance spreading rapidly through minds across America based on what we see and idolized. In this prejudiced filled world where people are killed for walking down the street while black, I have come to learn the best possible thing to be in this world is white" (Thomas). Thomas uses disease as a metaphor to describe racism because racism is ... ...

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... justice system refused to protect blacks from slave owners, racist mobs, and white rapists. The courts in Philadelphia issued judiciary orders to arrest any "Negro" walking about the street without permission for his or her master, in 1963. During this time period some blacks had been emancipated, but were not given the option to show freedom papers once detained ... ...

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... of Chicago. Participants of the Chicago race riots, on both sides, (white and black), took to the streets ready for violence, and anything in between. White gangs would sit behind street corners waiting for anyone who wasn't white to walk by and once someone did, the gang members would viciously assault their prey. Gang members, as well as angry individuals not ... ...

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... ;. "See what that woman just did?" Anthony asks his companion Peter. "That woman got colder the moment she saw us." Spotting them from just down the street, "that woman" has clutched her handbag closer and huddled into her husband's side as they head to their shiny black Escalade. And Anthony, already exorcised because a waitress treated ... ...

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... hyenas have distinct African American characteristics. Perhaps the most notable characteristic is their accent. For her role as Shenzi the hyena, actress Whoopi Goldberg uses African American vernacular English. Goldberg's street-like dialect strongly contrasts the "good characters" of the film who use mainstream United States English (Gabler). African American actors play the voices of Mufasa, Sarabi, and Nala ... ...

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... but forgot because of the shows power to make an extremely relatable narrative. In comparison with a show such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, where the main character is a street-smart teenager, we are able to draw a distinct line between stereotypical blackness and of non-stereotypical blackness. Furthermore, we are able to recognize that stereotypical blackness is seen as a condition ... ...

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... work and dedication from people to stop racial disparity. It is difficult for our faith in the American judicial system not to be challenged when we cannot walk down the street, drive down an interstate, go through an airport, or even enter into our own homes without being stopped merely because of the color of our skin. Training law enforcement officers ... ...

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