Essays on Just Walk on by

While we work to change the tolerance in America, the prejudice response of perceiving black men as criminals, is still a regular occurrence. In his essay, “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space” Brent Staples analyzes the effects...

Brent Staples is an African American man born in 1951 who received his first Bachelor’s degree in behavioral sciences at Widener University at 22 years old. Staples continued on to graduate with a Master’s degree in psychology at the University of Chicago and subsequently he...

Despite the struggle to stop racial discrimination has made a significant step for the past thirty years, racism still thrives amongst us in the modern world. Racism has emerged to be such a deep-seated part of society to an extent that people tend to avoid...

The American dream has been portrayed as something that can be accomplished by anyone in order to gain success in America regardless of race, skin tone, and cultural background as long as they have the ambition to acquire that success. What is not made public...

In the essays “Scattered Inconveniences” by Jerald Walker and “Just Walk on by: A Black man ponders his power to alter public space” by Brent Staples, the authors had two different viewpoints, which they expressed. In “Scattered Inconveniences” by Jerald Walker, the author was talking...

Racism has existed throughout history feeding on the fear and ignorance of mankind. Since the beginning of time, people have been judged based on the color of their skin or the place where they come from. Many activists have emerged from these groups to support...