... slaves are property. From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated ... slavery is "an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity. Let all the guaranties those fathers gave it, not grudgingly, but fully and fairly maintained" ... slavery...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

... referring to how black people are able to exercise "white supremacist control" over one another. Hooks views the emphasis of the struggle against "white supremacy" as helping to form coalitions among peoples of color as a catalyst of dismantling white supremacy, where peoples of color join together in support of that common cause. Early coalitions, generally disregarded in the broad view of ... by people of color into white society. Hooks believes that the key to discrediting white supremacy is to embrace all cultural and ethnic accounts to realize and recognize the similarities among a...

• Word Count: 608
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate

... individual's personal ideology that will define his willingness to participate in multiracial organizations, institutionalized racism notwithstanding. Wilson believes another obstacle to coalition building to be the widespread belief among the disadvantaged African-American class that their situation continues to exist primarily as a result of racial discrimination, independent of nonracial factors. The author explains at length that although ... racial bias continues to be an important factor aggravating black employment problems, it is primarily nonracial economic forces that have sha...

• Word Count: 1618
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

... improvisation). In addition, Armstrong was not only considered a jazz musician, also caught a lot of attention because in the period in which he lived, the racism against black people was common among American society, but thanks to his acclaimed talent and despite of the criticism he received in the press or in any place where he acted, for example, in one of ... ...

• Word Count: 1036
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... jobs that "expressed the socially conditioned inferiority of women" she was still exempt from designations of femininity that would have otherwise sheltered her from carrying out more arduous, "manly" tasks. Thus, in order to maximize the total labor accrued from a slave woman, she "had to be ... greatly limited a mother's mobility. However, motherhood did not mean that slave women were deprived of other strategies to resist their masters. As White points out, a woman's gender endowed her with the exclusive opportunity to feign illness or pregnancy, thereby evading desired productive quot...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... 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 in either camp' (Mak, 2014). In the political discourse ... ...

• Word Count: 1528
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate