Essays on White Privilege

This week in Common Hour we discussed diversity, social identities and social justice. All of these topics were extremely important to me as I’ve never had to deal with them before (racism, homophobia and sexism are widely spread and totally acceptable back home). I’ve really...

This study primarily examines the experiences of LGBT workers of color in the workplace. It provides statistics on a wide range of subjects within the overall topic, including unemployment and poverty rates. The report provides informative information on the comparison between the situation of LGBT...

American history teachers from our youth to high school have taught us the general ideas of slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights movements. But failed at giving students the details of the time eras leading to Civil Rights, they left out the impacted African-American...

A Response to Jeremy Dowsett Recently, Lansing, Michigan resident Jeremy Dowsett wrote an article that was featured in a business and news publication called “Quartz.” The article was titled What My Bike Has Taught Me About White Privilege and compares being a minority to riding...

Slavery in colonial America began in the early 1600s, with the first Africans being brought to Jamestown in 1619. However, slaves only made up a small percentage of the population until around 1680, when the Royal African Company lost its monopoly on carrying slaves to...

White Privilege is a real thing in our society, it’s has been internalized making it seem like it’s nothing different, it’s just part of life. The definition of Privilege is a special right to resources such as housing and jobs. Within Privalage there are resources...

Underground Airlines traverses many social and political climates, namely, the tension that exists between privileged whites and oppressed blacks. While Ben Winters’ novel is set in an imagined future where institutionalized slavery still thrives in the South, the novel points toward the systematic oppression that...

White like me is an analysis and intense examination of racism in the United States of America. This book offers an insight into the life of a white man and how he became aware of his privilege. While exploring other people’s hardships and discriminations because...

Black people make up 13.2% of the United States population 42% of black children are educated in high poverty schools Make it noticeable to everyone. About 69 percent of public high schools offer Advanced Placement classes or the International Baccalaureate program, according to the National...

  This essay focuses on racism definition, white priviledge, and its nature in society. We live in a society where race is seen as a vital part of our personalities, the lack of racial identity is very often an important factor which prevent people from...

In Black No More, by George Schuyler, the main character, Max Disher, experiences a scientific procedure that changes his skin from black to white. Originally very proud of his African-American descent, he finds himself transitioning from wishing he were white, to being thankful that he...

In the history of America, education has been an important issue for the future of the country. Over the years, the Federal Government made improvements to education in schools to increase student success. In particular, the Brown vs. Board of Education case proved that schools...

White Privilege Macklemore’s “White Privilege,” is an eight minute song that expresses a diverse perspective on the Black Lives Matter movement. Usually, when one hears about the movement, it is from the voice of an African American. Though, this work provides the view of a...

Most literary critics look on the racism of the blacks as a whole but in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tries through AMERICANNAH to explain the actuality of racism by trying to explain the differences of an African American and American African. Through Ifemelu, the protagonist of...

Privilege is everywhere, observable and, with how the world is, unavoidable. You’ll see the “benefits” in Donald Trump, consequences in a Planned Parenthood. With human nature it is inevitable that somebody will see someone who looks different and begin a conflict, ending in a winner...

The son of Sharecropper, Joe Louis fought his way through the ranks of amateur and professional boxing, and winning the worlds heavyweight champion, a title he held from 1937-1949. Louis is perhaps best known for his legendary match up against German boxer Max Schmeling. Schmeling...

To be free but not actually free. Looking at the years from 1800 to 1860. There were more free slaves in the South than in the North. Most slaves became free when their owners died or for economic reasons. Some slaves bought their own freedom....

For this assignment, I explore my intersectionality by examining my gender in addition to my racial identity. At first, I questioned whether the critical moments concerning my race and gender that immediately crossed my mind would allow me to adequately examine how my experiences as...

In the wake of #OscarsSoWhite and #MeToo, people were eager to applaud the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, informally known as the Academy, for their progress in diversity after releasing nominations that featured many black and female nominees. However, many felt that this...

Heart of Darkness was a novella written by Joseph Conrad in 1899. This novella mainly talks about Marlow an introspective sailor, and his journey up to the Congo River to meet Kurts known as idealistic man of great abilities which he represent the European as...

Introduction White Like Me is a documentary by Tim Wise’s on his life in a majorly black neighborhood growing up with black friends. It covers his views about white privilege and the structural advantages given to white people as he experienced first hand. In the...

In this century across the nation children of all backgrounds are experiencing at an early age discussion about race, gender equality, sexual orientation, religion, and different cultures it’s at the forefront of their everyday lives many people avoid this discussion because they fear that conversation...

The Constitution states that every child in the United States has the right to have a free and equal public education. However, for most of our Country’s history, this was not the case. In 1896, the Supreme court ruled in favor of Jim Crow laws,...