ktmeng/mec huggingface dataset:
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From the Spanish regime to the present, Muslim and Christian intergroup relationships have been characterized by animosity and suspicion. This has been expressed in the Muslims’ ongoing resentment of Christian settlers and attempts at secession to form an independent Mindanao. Muslim revolutionary groups the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Bangsai Moro Liberation Front (BMLF) want Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan to secede from the Philippines.
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Within sociology, the terms race, ethnicity, minority, and dominant group all have very specific and different meanings. To understand the sociological perspective on race and ethnicity, it is important to understand the meanings of these concepts. An ethnic group is a social category of people who share a common culture, such as a common language, a common religion, or common norms, customs, practices, and history. Ethnic groups have a consciousness of their common cultural bond. An ethnic group does not exist simply because of the common national or cultural origins of the group, however. They develop because of their unique historical and social experiences, which become the basis for the group’s ethnic identity. For example, prior to immigration to the United States, Italians did not think of themselves as a distinct group with common interests and experiences. However, the process of immigration and the experiences they faced as a group in the United States, including discrimination, created a new identity for the group.
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Some examples of ethnic groups include Italian Americans, Polish Americans, Mexican Americans, Arab Americans, and Irish Americans. Ethnic groups are also found in other societies, such as the Pashtuns in Afghanistan or the Shiites in Iraq, whose ethnicity is base on religious differences. Like ethnicity, race is primarily, though not exclusively, a socially constructed category. A race is a group that is treated as distinct in society based on certain characteristics. Because of their biological or cultural characteristics, which are labeled as inferior by powerful groups in society, a race is often singled out for differential and unfair treatment. It is not the biological characteristics that define racial groups, but how groups have been treated historically and socially. Society assigns people to racial categories (White, Black, etc.) not because of science or fact, but because of opinion and social experience.
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In other words, how racial groups are defined is a social process; it is socially constructed. A minority group is any distinct group in society that shares common group characteristics and is forced to occupy low status in society because of prejudice and discrimination. A group may be classified as a minority on the basis of ethnicity, race, sexual preference, age, or class status. It is important to note that a minority group is not necessarily the minority in terms of numbers, but it is a group that holds low status in relation to other groups in society (regardless of the size). The group that assigns a racial or ethnic group to subordinate status in society is called the dominant group. There are several sociological theories about why prejudice, discrimination, and racism exist. Current sociological theories focus mainly on explaining the existence of racism, particular institutional racism.
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The three major sociological perspectives (functionalist theory, symbolic interaction theory, and conflict theory) each have their own explanations to the existence of racism. Functionalist theorists argue that in order for race and ethnic relations to be functional and contribute to the harmonious conduct and stability of society, racial and ethnic minorities must assimilate into that society. Assimilation is a process in which a minority becomes absorbed into the dominant society – socially, economically, and culturally. Symbolic interaction theorists look at two issues in relation to race and ethnicity.
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First, they look at the role of social interaction and how it reduces racial and ethnic hostility. Second, they look at how race and ethnicity are socially constructed. In essence, symbolic interactionists ask the question, “What happens when two people of different race or ethnicity come in contact with one another and how can such interracial or interethnic contact reduce hostility and conflict?” The basic argument made by conflict theorists is that class-based conflict is an inherent and fundamental part of society. These theorists thus argue that racial and ethnic conflict is tied to class conflict and that in order to reduce racial and ethnic conflict, class conflict must first be reduced.
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This gap appears before children enter kindergarten, and it persists into adulthood. It has narrowed since 1970, but the typical American black still scores below 75 percent of American whites on most standardized tests. On some tests the typical American black scores below more than 85 percent of whites (Jencks, 1998). African Americans scoring lower on test could possibly be the results of discrimination. Jane Elliott proved this point in her documentary.
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Page 2 hand basis by using the same method Jane Elliott used by segregating children by eye color. I believe if this experiment was performed in schools today that there would be positive effects, such as improvements in student attitudes, elevated general testing scores, higher standardized test scores and less racial fighting between students. “A Class Divided” is a documentary that I feel everyone should view no matter what race or ethnicity a person might be. Whether we realize it or not,
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The United States is such a diverse country, so most Americans are not part of the dominant group; therefore due to being a minority, we undergo a feeling of inferiority. This documentary presents us with a different view on the color of someone’s skin. After viewing this, a person will hopefully be less likely to focus on the differences they have with other people and see people all as equals. This topic was of great interest to me due to the fact that I witness discrimination many times a day.
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The culture theory, some prejudice is found in everyone (Macionis, pg 281) This was proven by Bogardus (1925, 1967; Elsner, & McFaul, 1977) with the social distance studies that found that people felt much more social distance from some categories than from others (Macionis, pg 279). The conflict theory, this theory relates Page 3 to today’s society.
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Society in the 1900s was extremely various in regards to the social status amongst the American individuals. In the 1900s, blacks were highly discriminated versus the whites. Discrimination was not against the law as blacks were considered free but must be segregated versus the whites. The idea of a white dominate society was still in existing. Ellison was born (in the year 1914) into this period of racial discrimination and segregation. The story starts with the storyteller thinking back about the past when his grandfather was on his deathbed.
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The narrator was extremely puzzled with the words from his grandfather; he had thought that his grandfather had gone insane. The flashback the narrator has reminds himself of his roots, his grandfather had taunted him with his dying speech for the rest of the narrator’s life. The narrator had been living as a rebel and a traitor without even realizing it. He was praised by many white men and was considered an example of desirable conduct. “I was praised by then most lily-white men of the town. I was considered an example of desirable conduct. – just as my grandfather had been” (Ellison 259). Ellison and his grandfather were considered traitors because they were outstanding blacks in a society of white dominants.
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The mere fact of a black succeeding is considered treachery and rebellious in the 1900s where white dominated. The narrator believes that he is successful in this white dominated society, but in actuality, the whites are only using him for entertainment. “When I got there I discovered that it was on the occasion of a smoker, and I was told that since I was to be there anyways I might as well take part in the battle royal to be fought by some of my schoolmates as part of the entertainment”(Ellison 259). This quote from the novel describes exactly how the blacks were treated.
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All of the blacks were expected to entertain the whites in the Battle Royal. The black were symbolic and was represented as objects used to entertain the whites. Ellison uses many symbols in Battle Royal to demonstrate the lack of black equality. The battle itself is a symbol the narrator’s never ending battle for social equality. The battle also represents the lack of freedom the narrator had, he was forced into a fight without any say. “We were rushed up to the front of the ballroom, where it smelled even more strongly of tobacco and whiskey. Then we were pushed into place” (Ellison 260). The stripper represents the amount of control the white men had over the blacks. Recall that in the 1900s, blacks were heavily discriminated; many blacks would have been persecuted for sight of a white woman.
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The narrator felt guilt and fear and was not sure how to react. “I felt a wave of irrational guilt and fear. My teeth chattered, my skin turned to goose flesh, my knees knocked. Yet I was strongly attracted and looked in spite of myself” (Ellison 261). The naked woman also symbolizes the confusion of the narrator, he is not sure how to react and this symbolizes his uncertainty in his role of society. The white blindfold represents how blacks were being brainwashed by the whites into the mindset of a white dominated society.
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The naked woman also symbolizes the lack of respect shown to women at this time of white male dominance. The American flag tattoo on the naked woman symbolized how a stripper had more social status than a black man. The tattoo also symbolizes the American Dream and the American paradigm. The American Dream defines the American culture and is used to describe the social status of a man in the American society. Ellison uses symbols from Battle Royal to describe the American Dream. The American flag tattoo on the naked woman shows represents the American Dream that can be achieved by anyone.
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However, the narrator is very close achieving the American Dream only to have it taken away from him. “I saw the rug covered with coins of all dimensions and a few crumpled bills. But what excited me, scattered here and there, were the gold pieces” (Ellison 266). The narrator had been given a chance at the American Dream only to be fooled when discovered the fake coins and electrocuted. “I lunged for a yellow coin lying on the blue design carpet, touching it and sending a surprised shriek to join those rising around me. I tried frantically to remove my hand but could not let go. A hot violent force tore through my body, shaking me like a wet rat. The rug was electrified” (Ellison 266-26).
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The narrator had been shocked not just physically but mentally. He was uncertain of this shock as it had hurt him. The promise of the American Dream was only a set of lies. The narrator had only been used to entertain the whites. “The huge face wavered down to mine as he tried to push me free. But my body was slippery and he was too drunk. …It was as though I had rolled through a bed of hot coals” (Ellison 267-268). The narrator is being thrown onto the rug to be electrocuted, just to satisfy the entertainment of the whites. There was no American Dream for the blacks, only a fixed chance that would always favor the whites as the blacks were used for entertainment when shocked on the rug. Ellison’s Battle Royal depicts the struggles of many blacks during the era of racial discrimination and segregation.
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The narrator described in the story directly correlates to the life Ellison lived. He was one who was “others” and was blindfolded his entire life, following orders from whites and having the whites take advantage of him. The naked woman symbolized the amount of control whites had in society and how many women were disrespected whether white or black. Ellison also discusses the American Dream through the use of symbols including the electrified rugs and coins. The blacks would only be close to achieving the American Dream but never able to have the American Dream.
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I discovered the Harvard-hosted implicit Association test (IAT) to be really fascinating and it appeared to be rather precise on my part. I took the race test and the one that checks how you feel about males vs. ladies in liberal arts and sciences. In the race test is showed that I choose, or I like to say, that “I’m more comfy” around African American individuals than around European American individuals. It was simple for me to find out why my ratings showed me leaning toward the African American culture because I am African American and I can associate with African American individuals.
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I think that it is a slight type of bias on my part and I prepare on working on my thinking towards European American’s and I’m genuinely going to attempt to drop my wall or guard when I’m around them. As far as the results to the liberal arts and science piece again, I believe that it’s simply a mindset of what fields of studies that a lot of genders’ are related to. I grew up with primarily women instructors in everything however, math or science.
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It just seemed right and I found on this particular test that I was really getting the answers wrong because it just worked out that way. To me it seemed to be a more “safer” and more comfortable test than the race one. In my opinion, most people do not want to be labeled as a racist or prejudice toward race but, it’s probably true that right now more men are in the science field than the arts field at least in my area. Again, I found the tests to be very engaging and if people really take the test seriously in some ways it could be a measurement for people to change their thought patterns related to certain prejudice about several different situations.
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Racism: ‘The Fourth of July’ Independence day is celebrated on The Fourth of July where Americans gain freedom and seperated from Great Britan. In the essay ‘The Fourth of July’ Audre Lorde exposes racism, discriminstion and how it all started when her and her family took a trip down to Washington D.C. They encountered disturbing and unjust treatment. In the article, it statement that Lorde felt rejected because her family was not allowed to go to sudden places and being told they were not allowed to sit in the diner.
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While that was going on lorde alerted her parents of what’s going on but they were calm to the news because they knew about racism but for Lorde and her sister it was all new to them. The behavior of the parents allowed Lorde to feel rejected because they did nothing about what she was going through. Soon she realize not everybody had independence in Washington. She wrote this piece to show how African Americas were getting treated unfairly and did not have any equal rights.
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The reason why the Family decided to take this trip was because Phyllis was not allowed to attend with her classmates. Lorde stated that ‘ I learned later that Phyllis’s high school senior class trip had been to Washington, but the nuns had given her back her deposit in private’ Lorde’s family was colored that was reason Phyllis wasn’t allowed to go to Washingston. According to Histroy.com Wasttington D.C is the nation of freedom, where phyllis was allowed to go.
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To create such a remarkable film is exhausting. Remember the Titans the film that I have created is inspiring, exciting and watching it is an experience you won’t forget. Created and produced in 2000 Remember the Titans has had much work, devotion and persistence put into it. The film distributes many reasons of why it should be in the 2014 Human rights Literature and Film festival. Remember the Titans has become such a marvellous piece of display, showing how black and white unite for the better.
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Remember the Titans is more than a film about winning, it involves uniting the two black and white races so they come together and form a friendship, a bond like no other this is why for camp the players were taken to the battle of Gettysburg. During the camp coach Boone made the players take a 100 mile run to the burial grounds of the fallen soldiers. Boone says “I don’t care if you like each other right now, but you will respect each other. And maybe – I don’t know, maybe we’ll learn to play this game like men…” The technique is the use of the dialogue and the interpretation of this quote means that no matter how much racial hate the players have for each other they must learn to respect each other and if they do they can win.
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Remember the Titans is one of a kind, and one of a kinds are unique its uniqueness can be seen in the way it teaches us to overcome racism. In the beginning of the film, the white and black members of the team hate each other. The white players of the team don’t “want to play with those black animals”. The black players don’t want to integrate either necessarily because they don’t “trust your people to be honest”. A scene where this is seen clearly is when Ray and Petey are forced to learn about each other in camp. The two players are sitting on opposite sides facing each other like adversaries. The camera angle technique is a mid-shot. Dividing them is a path running between them up towards a big traditional door of Gettysburg College.
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This path represents the tradition of racism in America between blacks and whites all the way back to slave-ownership times that divides Alan and Petey in the present day. This camera shot is combined with a dialogue that is suspicious, personal and hurtful. The film remember the titans sends a message that a racism war has been fought for so many years and is still going, but these boys overcame racism and became one. Remember the Titans shows us how racial discrimination was overcame. It shows that it is possible for any age or race to be united and that together you can overcome racial discrimination and be stronger, this is why this film is so important and it would be a great film to be shown at the 2014 human rights literature and film festival. To not show it in the festival would be an abomination. Remember the Titans presents a memorable message that can help us overcome racial discrimination and work towards creating a fair and equal society.
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What stylistic elements does King use to influence his readers? After reading and analyzing “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” write an essay in which you answer the question and analyze structure and language in his text, providing 3 or more examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text? 1. Copy and paste the introduction of your essay here. Check your grading feedback from Lesson 8 to see if your instructor suggested any revisions to your introduction.
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BODY (Minimum of 2 paragraphs – one about the structure of the letter and one about the language of the letter): King uses quotes from other famous people to offer comprehension of the respect those people were given and explaining how those men were also extremists; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . . .” said by Thomas Jefferson. King uses allusion to talk about how Jefferson mentioned something in his past life of being equal and that our society cannot be divided in half. It goes back to segregation by explaining the people of the world shouldn’t be divided by the color of their skin since according to Jefferson all men were created equal. By stating Jefferson, he makes a point of everybody, including blacks, having the right to share bathrooms, restaurants, and schools. Not one person should suffer the consequences of being different.
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Abraham Lincoln said that “This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.” King also used an allusion of Lincoln’s to point out that the nation would not be able to survive being divided by the color of one’s skin. If the government were going to divide the town’s people, to divide them by the content of their actions, than by their skin color. It would be for example, dividing a forest by its predators, and prey. By placing a fence in between the two sections, neither side would survive. King wants us to understand that being divided is toxic to our nation and we need to mix to be able to feel right in the world, like you belong.
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As mentioned, king uses imagery to help us visualize better what he desires for us to understand like when he says “…when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people …” he uses this to help the readers comprehend why they are fed up of being told to wait, and to stand aside patiently.
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He mentions how he can see the clouds of inferiority form in her little mind, understanding that they think of the blacks as less of humans. King also describes seeing her unknowingly develop a hatred towards the whites and not knowing that changes her personality. When this happens to his daughter, he wants us to understand that there comes a time when men are exhausted of being in a pool of injustice and having to be told they can’t do anything about the situation. “Like a boil that can never be cured”, King states in the end of paragraph 24 of his letter.
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When he says this, he is giving us an image of a disgusting boil, while comparing injustice and racism to it. King is using a simile to make us believe that just like a person or animal is sick, the people back then were sick and the symptoms were injustice and racism. Just like we tend to those unwell, we have to tend to them. King compares the two and simplifies his thoughts when said that they need to be acknowledged and treated. He is hinting that he wishes of injustice and racism to be treated and vanish, but that it won’t happen if not everybody pitches in.
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3. Within the body paragraphs of your essay, locate and copy and paste the following components. Be sure to include the entire sentence. a. a direct quotation that is introduced with a complete sentence and a colon: King uses quotes from other famous people to offer comprehension of the respect those people were given and explaining how those men were also extremists; “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . . .” b. a direct quotation that is introduced with a signaling phrase and a comma: Abraham Lincoln said that “This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.” c. a direct quotation that is introduced and explained in one sentence:
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As mentioned, King uses imagery to help us visualize better what he desires for us to understand like when he says “…when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people …” he uses this to help the readers comprehend why they are fed up of being told to wait, and to stand aside patiently. d. a paraphrased example:
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This relationship between the viewer and this ‘conscience-like’ character becomes obvious in the film because soon into the screenplay, it is realized that the only person who feels for Dumbo the way the viewer does is Timothy Q. Mouse. With that idea in mind, viewers will not only sympathize with Dumbo but also suture in on the conscience-like character (Timothy Q. Mouse) and take his language and identify it as his or her own. The character Timothy Q. Mouse seems to understand race the way that a viewer should have in the early 1940s. To Timothy, each animal at the circus is a different race. He makes this clear when he tells Dumbo that elephants are a very proud race and attributes that fact to Dumbo’s ostracization from his elephant “race”.
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Timothy Q. Mouse states, “Remember, you come of a proud race. Why you’re a-a-a– a pachyderm… and pachyderms don’t cry.” Whether it’s subconscious thoughts of the viewers of today, or the blatantly racist and societally charged thoughts of viewers of the past, this dialogue allows for the film to become racially relevant to its consumers. The consumers must then begin to understand the race relations in the film, and clearly Timothy Q. Mouse has implied a certain hierarchy of race in Walt Disney’s Dumbo world. The Elephants seem to be near the top of this hierarchy throughout the film. They are referred to as the “Climax” of the Circus, and, in particular, one elephant turns to her pack and says, “Don’t forget that we elephants have always walked with dignity.”
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Through this language, elephants in the film are metaphorically regarded as the racial majority group not only by themselves but also by the other animals (/races) in the film. As viewers hear this language being used, racial stereotypes begin to stir, and soon, a new race is introduced into the film—the crows. The crows are introduced preceding a scene featuring a piece of music called “Pink Elephants on Parade”. The scene begins when Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse become accidently intoxicated by drinking water that has been tainted with Champagne. This results in a number of hallucinations of oddly colored circus animals accompanied by the piece “Pink Elephants on Parade” written by Oliver Wallace and Ned Washington.
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These Hallucinations, presumed to be due to drunkenness, and the psychedelic music accompaniment become important in the introduction of the crows. (It should also be noted that drugs and alcohol were stereotypically attributed to the black community and in particular the community of black musicians during the 1940s and into present day—this fact further enhances the portrayal of racial stereotypes in the film.) The crows bring out some of the first-born stereotypes of African Americans. There is no coincidence that Dumbo, after being kicked out of the Elephant racial group and intoxicated beyond comprehension, would end up in bad place.
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In fact, it is to be expected that Dumbo would hit rock bottom, but unfortunately for him, rock bottom is high up in a tree, and not only that, but it is symbolically the worst place he could end up. The scene opens with a pan of the landscape accompanied by flute melodies that symbolize the serenity of early morning. Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse are asleep high in a tree below a flock of crows looking down at them. Suddenly, the sounds of the flute are interrupted by the crows obnoxious speech, “Well, looky here, looky here. My, my. Why, this is most irregular.” Simply from the dialect used by the crows, it is very clear even today that these crows are to be compared to the most oppressed minority group of the time—African Americans (or negroes in the 1940s). The crows in this scene embody a very negative view of the 1940s Negro. They are loud and rambunctious.
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They smoke cigars and harass Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse. They leave no room for a positive thinking on the black community and can even be compared to the minstrel shows of the time. Walt Disney could have used a number of animals to represent black people of this time, but he chose to use one of the only black colored animals with the brightest colored mouth. Since the leader of the flock is played by a white voice actor, the dialect of the crows would exactly mimic Minstrelsy.
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Without a doubt, these crows represent these characterizations among animal characters and in the Richard Crawford’s writing on minstrel shows of the American past he states, “… the mask enabled white stage minstrels to amuse audiences by imitating characteristic black ways of talking, moving, dancing, laughing, singing, and playing music instruments” (Crawford 198). This scene maintains Minstrelsy by using the crows as an animated-animalized blackface and further perpetuates the idea that the crows are, in fact, exhibiting minstrelsy. Since stereotypical black speech movement, dancing, laughing, singing, and musicianship all play a huge role in the making of this scene, then it would be right to say that minstrelsy was the goal of Walt Disney productions in the making of Dumbo in 1941.
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Overall, the purpose of this scene is to show that Dumbo has ended up in the black neighborhood and faces complete humiliation by a minority group. Much can be said about these racial issues, but most importantly, there is a question of how viewers of the film understand the relationship between Dumbo with his conscience-like character versus the stereotypical 1940s negro-like crow characters. My answer to this question would be found in a different view of language—the language of music. If music can be compared to the language of a subculture or a dialect of minority group, then it is easy to see that Walt Disney, the writing staff and the musical directors of Dumbo wanted to portray this in the film.
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Walt Disney had a very specific view in mind for his films. Ross Care in his essay “Make Walt’s Music” says, “While not a musician himself, Disney did demand a certain element of quality in his musical scores: he wanted class, but nothing too classy, and seriousness, but not the type of music to be taken too seriously.” The question that viewers of Dumbo would then encounter is: musically, what was Walt Disney trying to portray in the film? Musically, the crow scene uses Jazz to portray the black community. The idea of jazz music, being a fairly new genre of music that comes from African Americans, was a perfect way for Dumbo to lose its serious tone for just a moment in the plotline.
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In the scene Dumbo ends up falling from the tree where the crows have been taunting him. Again, the crows rudely approach Dumbo for more taunting and finally Timothy Q. Mouse Says, “Go on. Fly up a tree where you belong” (23). Though this line is a racially loaded statement, it goes unnoticed and the crows begin to perform a Jazz piece called “When I See an Elephant Fly”. The piece was created and recorded by Cliff Edwards (known for voicing Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio and his hit single “Singing in the Rain) and Hall Johnson, a famous Julliard trained African American composer and choral director. Noticeably, this scene exhibits problematic racial issues and these ideas are perpetuated through the music of the score, however an educated African American composer was a part of the creation of this music. This fact brings forth a very important historical reality: during this time, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination were a reality.
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When Timothy Q. Mouse tells the crows to go fly up a tree, it goes unacknowledged. That can be easily compared to the production of the film. Historically, it should not be surprising that an African American would be a part of music that portrays black stereotypes—Dumbo is a perfect example. Another important question to examine is why Jazz was an appropriate musical genre to introduce to the film during the crow scene. After watching the crows rudely harass the antagonist, Dumbo, and after Dumbo has experienced what is assumed to be a part of “negro experience” at the time (drunken hallucinations), a Jazz piece would serve as the final icing-on-the-cake. These three racial stereotypes allow the film consumers of this time to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Dumbo has landed in heart of the black community and he must return back to his natural place in the racial hierarchy.
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At that point through the text of the song, the crows tell Dumbo that there’s no way elephants could fly, which is exactly what Dumbo needs to learn to do in order to be accepted back into his race once again (and of course, the negro-crows turn out to be wrong in the end). Finally, the scene ends with Timothy Q. Mouse and Dumbo walking into the distance determined to prove the crows wrong and become elephant again. At that point, the Jazz subsides and the traditional musical narrative takes over the score once again. Analyzing the deeper meaning behind the scenes of Dumbo proves that there is more than racial issues in the images and texts of Disney films.
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The creation of the film also proves that racial issues played a role in its production. It is obvious that the writers of Disney films exhibit racial views in their writing, but also that music plays an important role in perpetuating racial stereotypes. The animated characters of the film were not only drawn to be racially stereotypical, but the actors and musicians that voiced these characters were black themselves. These facts allow viewers of the film today to realize the true racial complexities that surrounded Walt Disney Productions. Overall, Dumbo is an example of how language, animation, and music can all come together to preserve a problematic obscurity of race in the beloved classic animated films of Walt Disney.
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“…the slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery” (W.E.B. Dubois). After the Civil War ended in 1865, Reconstruction began. All slaves were finally freed because of the 13th amendment. Other amendments were passed such as: the 14th amendment which gave black Americans citizenship and the 15th amendment had made it illegal to deny someone the right to vote based on race. To enforce these new laws, northerners went south to help Freedmen and Reconstruction; these people are also known as carpetbaggers.
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“Weary of the ‘Negro Question’ and ‘sick of carpet-bag’ government… North began to turn against Reconstruction policies” (Littell). The North grew tired of trying to get the South to help Freedmen. In an article called The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901, by Heather Cox Richardson, she wrote about how blacks were uncivilized people. They assumed it would take time for ‘them’ to learn the methods of the white people. Northerners started to focus on their own concerns such as the Panic of 1873, which was the loss of millions of jobs; even the president turned away from the problems of Reconstruction.
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Southern resistance also, had a big impact on the end of Reconstruction. In a letter, a man named Albion Tourgee wrote about the Ku Klux Klan’s actions in the south. Tourgee served as a judge in North Carolina and he believed the Klan was after carpetbaggers, such as Tourgee himself. The KKK is made up of many ordinary people; lawyers, doctors, and farmers. They threatened and killed anybody who supported Freedmen and Reconstruction. They even intimidated people as they voted. In a picture found in Harper’s Weekly in 1876, it showed white southerners forcing a black American to vote for the Democratic Party. Whites who did not support Reconstruction ensured not to permit Reconstruction in the south.
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Southern resistance was what had caused the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They threatened Freedmen, Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, and Radical Republicans. The South resisted so much; the North could not support Reconstruction any longer. The KKK was constantly killing people who favored Reconstruction, and the North was losing hope. The Klan wanted to end Reconstruction and stop African-Americans from joining the white society. They killed people in public to show they would not back down, and the resistance from these people made Reconstruction a struggling task.
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Colour Symbol Image ‘Herbie’ by Archie Weller Colour, Symbol, Image By Samuel Beech The colour black is very symbolic in the story “Herbie” by Archie Weller, the colour black is associated with dark, sinister and contentious acts as is apparent is this morally challenging piece of text. The text challenges our values as a young boy is bullied until he falls to his death out of a tree he is forced to climb. The fact that an indigenous writer has written this text from the point of view of a racist young white boy, suggests that he is trying to get young white boys to see the damage they can cause .
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Perhaps this is why we taunted and teased him,” this quote backs the key idea of racial superiority. The ‘whitefellas’ in the town regard Herbie and his family as outcast and they see themselves as racially superior. This comes about because of naturalised assumptions developed since 1788 when the European sailors saw the aboriginals still running around in there loin cloths and with no apparent form of Literature. Since then the naturalised assumption has been strengthened by many different things, the white Australian Policy being one of them. When the Australian government stopped non-whites immigrating.
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Separate Pasts takes place during the 1950’s in Melton A. McLaurin’s small hometown, Wade, North Carolina. It is a detailed story of his boyhood in the rural South, which was a time when racism was a daily norm. McLaurin argues that racism existed unchallenged in the rural South. I found that this argument is valid due to the personal experiences that he had to face while growing up in the rural South, which he describes in great detail. McLaurin grew up with the knowledge that whites were treated very differently than blacks and not thinking anything of it.
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McLaurin was not aware of how severe racism was at that time until he experienced it first hand with Bobo. Bobo, who was his first black friend, was not an important part of his life although they grew up together and had known him his whole life. It all started one fall Saturday afternoon when McLaurin, BoBo and six other people, white and black, started playing a pickup game. Pickup games were basketball games played between two integrated teams, regardless of race, based solely upon the skills of the individuals.
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As the game commenced, the basketball that was being used was known to leak air and had to be re-inflated every thirty minutes. McLaurin, Bobo, and their friend Howard went to the store, the store he worked at, to inflate the ball once they noticed it was no longer able to bounce and interfered with the game. There was a normal procedure that needed to be followed in order to inflate the ball. First, there was a needle that needed to be lubricated by being stuck it into someone’s mouth or having someone spit on it.
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Next, the needle would be inserted into the small round valve where the basketball was inflated. By following those two steps it would lead to the third and last step, inflating the basketball. However, this particular time in McLaurin, Bobo and Howard’s case, they ran into a dilemma. The needle could not be inserted into the valve, no matter how many times they tried. The needle was handed over to Bobo for him to apply saliva using his mouth to try and lubricate the needle for it to be pushed into the valve. Still with no luck, McLaurin decided to take the matter into his own hands and put the needle into his mouth, convinced that his spit would get the needle into the valve allowing them to return to the playing court.
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After placing the needle into his mouth, a moment of realization hit him. “A split second after placing the needle in my mouth, I was jolted by one of the most shattering emotional experiences of my young life.” (Page 37) He came to the realization that the same needle he had just placed in his mouth, was in Bobo’s mouth seconds before. “The needle in my mouth, however, had been purposely drenched with Negro spit, and that substance threatened to defile my entire being…It threatened me with germs which, everyone said, were common along with blacks…these black germs would ravish my body with unspeakable diseases, diseases from the tropics, Congo illnesses that would rot my limbs, contort my body with pain.” (Page 37)
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McLaurin felt that Bobo’s saliva, Negros saliva, threatened the concept of what being white meant. The more he thought about the situation, the more he became angry, upset and disgusted with himself. Its extremity caused McLaurin to feel the need to spit and gag in order to throw up any of the black saliva that might still have remained in his body. He felt as if Bobo’s black essence degraded him and made him like Bobo, black, less than human. McLaurin grew up in a village in which race and sex were so interwoven into the facts and fantasies of life, that residents instinctively understood their interrelated roles within the society. “….Sexual contact between blacks and whites had been an integral part of life in the South from the time the first slaves were introduced into the region.” White women had to be cautious of their dress in the presence of black males because whites people feared black men would be aroused if they were to see a white woman in a pair of shorts.
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White women were also warned to “watch out for so and so”, or warned to not go places without being accompanied by elders. If a black male was to be attracted to a white woman, whites in spite of conveying the appropriate message automatically said derogatory and racist remarks. McLaurin caught interest in a girl named Charlotte Humphries who had been a schoolmate of his since the first grade. Blue eyes, blonde hair, having the complexion of a white girl, he was impressed and did not think pursuing wanting to date her would be a problem. However, regardless of his feelings, his mother disagreed and insisted that Charlotte would not be a good idea for him. McLaurin’s grandmother began to explain to him that he “just shouldn’t” pursue her, mentioning that the story behind it all goes back a long time ago. She explained that Charlotte’s great-grandmother was someone who was a “mulatto nigra”. Some mulattos pass as white, even though they are not, if they are light enough and that is what happened with Charlotte’s great-grandmother.
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Even though Charlotte was blue eyed blond hair, McLaurin could not pursue her simply because black ancestry was in her blood. He was left “to ponder who Charlotte should date if she were white, but not white enough.” One summer night, McLaurin along with a gathering of boys under sixteen met in a small vacant lot behind a house where they played a modified version of softball which they played until the batters could no longer see the ball in the red twilight cast by the sun already hidden beneath the horizon. After the game ended, most players went home but McLaurin and some of the other boys decided to go to Noah Bullock’s Store, which was located across the village near the highway. At this store is where McLaurin remembered a “mean race-baiting incident” a murder he had witnessed a few months earlier. The shooting had occurred one late afternoon between dusk and the evening meal. A couple, Mary Lou Adams and her husband Martin, approached the store. Martin was a withdrawn man who was one of the few blacks whom the white residents feared.
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Mary Lou shortly realized she was in immediate danger after entering the store and slamming the screen door shut behind her with her husband pursuing her carrying a shotgun. Martin shot and stuck Mary Lou in the chest causing her to collapse on the floor creating dark splotches everyone would be able to gaze at months later. Many of Wade’s citizens saw the crime as “simply another nigger shooting, exciting but of no real consequence”. The next day, McLaurin and the other boys approached the store and sat on a nearby bench and rehashed the murder, hoping that one of the store’s customers would entertain them with another shooting. When finding out that a customer named Sam was inside the store, their fears rekindled because they had heard stories about Sam killing someone with his bare hands. The boys decided to taunt with Sam by yelling a chant inside the store saying “Nigger, nigger black as tar, stuck his head in a molasses jar, jar broke, cut his throat, wet to hell on a Billy goat”, hoping that they could enrage Sam into causing a scene.
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Once they chanted, they ran for their lives thinking Sam would run after them and hurt them. Sam never chased them, in fact he never even left the stores, leaving the boys with realization that Sam was just a collective figure of their imagination because he was black. McLaurin felt guilt for “violating the basic human dignity that my family acknowledged blacks possessed”. But more so because he had hurt Sam with the fact of his race knowing that Sam did not do anything to deserve the racist actions. (Page 109) In 1997, McLaurin lived in Wilmington, North Carolina when he decided to take a trip back to Wade, which eventually turned into an annual event. During his trip he learns that racism is still there even after all these years, just below the surface, in just about everything. “It’s in you, and it’s in me, and that’s the truth, down there inside us. That’s just the way it is.” (Page 176) Overall, I was highly convinced by McLaurin’s personal story where racism is shown to have been and still is a huge problem in the South. Racism began in the early years; people became accustomed to it and has unfortunately continued for many more years.
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Racism was a very significant theme to the narrative that he was discussing because not only did he experience it first hand, he witnessed his family and friends go through the same thing his entire childhood and adulthood. McLaurin’s argument of racism was presented very effectively with several clear examples throughout the book such as Bobo, Charlotte, and Sam. The historical value of this book is getting a first hand, inside look of how life was in the rural South from a conflicted young white’s point of view showing the segregation and racism of the time and how his implanted views on racism were changed by his positive personal experiences with blacks.
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of culture on attitudes, values, perception, human behavior, and interpersonal relations. The discriminatory factors that promote societal, political, socioeconomic, and spiritual oppression of culturally diverse populations will also be illustrated in this paper. The paper would further examine the racial and cultural diversity within non-native English-speaking communities. Moreover, this paper will also analyze how current research may positively impact the delivery of public safety and enhance the evaluation of information and resources.
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Influence of culture on attitudes, values, perception, human behavior, and interpersonal relations The behavior, values, perceptions, and attitudes of different human beings are greatly influenced by their experience as well as their genetic inheritance. The ways in which different people are developed are formed by the social circumstances and experiences within the context of their innate genetic potentials. The question remains that how hereditary potential and experience serve their roles in developing the behavior, values, perceptions, and attitudes of a human being.