Magazine called "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space". In "Black Men and Public Spaces ", Brent Staples is in his early twenties and is faced with the crime of being a black man in the 1970's. ... Having moved to New york, and growing accustomed to being perceived as a threat, Staples learned to properly give people their space and to intimidate them less as he walks the streets. ... It was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I'd come into-the ability to alter public space in ugly ways. ... It's distu...

• Word Count: 1151
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps it is my "white male denial syndrome- but I don't think so. ... In my opinion it is people like this, with lists like hers, that continue the racial and gender divide. ... I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair. ... White music, even if it could be defined as that, is what has the minority floor space. ... I can have blemish cover or bandages in "flesh- color and have them more or less ...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I think the boy unknowingly has a racial prejudice, because he says that my soul is white' or White as an angel is the English child'. To this boy, the mother says that the life in this world doesn't have special meanings and is only a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love'. ...

• Word Count: 481
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The song says, "The Bloods, and The Crips and the KKK/ But if you only love your own race/Then you only leave space to discriminate/And to discriminate only generates hate. ... As my guidance counselor and Fr. ... During free periods sometimes we sit together and other times we do not, that is why when I go down to the lunchroom with my friends I usually try and sit with everyone else on the table. ...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School