Initial literature on enslaved black women analyzes stereotypes constructed of African women brought to the new world. ... Additionally, their "monstrous" bodies suggested savagery, substantiating European conceptions of African inferiority to further legitimize African subjugation. The first comprehensive book to be written about enslaved African American women is titled Ar'n't I a Woman by Deborah White. ... Over the course of the past forty years, American historiography has evolved from a very limited admittance of black bondswomen in the general slave narrative to e...

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Likewise in Ferguson, the fatal shooting of African American Michael Brown by a white police officer on the 9th of August last year was seen as a catalyst for the events which followed. ... The same phenomenon can be noted in the case of Ferguson, where many Asian American stores were looted and where, it was argued by some, Asian Americans were ignored in the race debate: 'In times of racial tension, Asian-Americans have tended to be left out of the conversation between white and black America, reflecting the prevailing sense during more peaceful times that they don't quite belong...

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Examining Lincoln's attitude toward slavery also opens up political and cultural contentions at large in the American nation. ... In 19th century America, nearly any white person was a racist. ... This shows that he indeed belonged with any other white man in 19th century society that was just how America functioned at the time. ... At the same time it did gain more acceptance for abolition because the main argument was that African Americans could not be integrated into white society. As a result the Whigs used Re-Colonization to compromise between expansion of slavery and abolition of i...

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