Essays on White Privilege
Anne Moody’s autobiography Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) chronicles the experiences of an African American girl growing up in “Jim Crow” Mississippi during the civil rights movement. Moody’s experiences shaped her views on the social constructs of race and “whiteness.” Anne’s interactions with “yellow” or “mulatto” people within the African-American community directly contributed to […]
The issue of race and ethnic classification remains a crucial topic of interest and controversy, especially in the United States. Different minority groups continue to express their outcry over being marginalized based on their ethnicity and skin color. The emergence of such activist groups such as “Black lives matters” indicates how much the society has […]
In Blindspotting, filmmaker Carlos Lopez Estrada explores the dynamics of racialized violence through the characters of Collin and Miles, showing us respective symbols of the black and white experience in America. Estrada employs violence to discuss race dynamics; so just as the responses to violence in this film drive the plot forward, they too separate […]
The movie American History X has evoked a lot of emotions in me, and I think that the producers and the writers of this movie knew exactly how to get you the right message of the reality that happen in this world. Two of the emotions that I got after seeing this film, is sadness […]
Crash (2004) is American drama film directed and produced by Paul Haggis. The film focuses on racial and ethnic tensions in the Los Angeles area involving a diverse group characters from all different backgrounds. The film shows how all walks of life are subscribed to a stereotype and that these stereotypes affect how we interact […]
As I sit here to write, to generations to come there is more than corn in Indiana from city to city “race relations” differ. Every city must work together for inclusiveness versus exclusion. Race and cultural relations is something we all have to be responsible. In colonial time, status was a prime factor and groundwork […]
