The demise of colonialism in the Caribbean did not mark the end of social stratification based on racial and ethnic divisions. ... When Great Britain first colonized Jamaica, a type of social system was created. This social system was based around the need for slavery and the plantation systems. ... This "hierarchy of shades" equates social status and autonomy with skin color. ... She struggles to find whether her identity lies in her nationality, her social stratification, her race, her sex, her language, her individual history, or her family history. ...
Throughout the years one can see that the construction of black identity has changed due to white political and social conditions. ... Blacks have used this development of identity to resist, defend, and adapt to the ways of the white political and social conditions. ... I am against the superior-inferior white-black stratification that makes the white a perpetual teacher and the black a perpetual pupil."" ... The article stated that "Indeed, as conditions in the ghetto have worsened and as poor blacks have adapted socially and culturally to this deteriorating, environment, the ghetto has a...
Ending Racial Profiling The federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. These records should include the person's race; the reason stopped; how long the ca...