African Americans were segregated from the whites and also Women had no rights because Men were seen as the alpha male. The obstacles of the two would probably fit into the race and gender of how America was back in the twentieth century. African Americans were always hard to be put in society in the 1900’s because of slavery. Even though slavery had ended in the 1950’s, they were still not accepted into society. The northern parts of the United States accepted African Americans, and many try to escape to the north to try to get employed and leave the racial segregation in the south.
To conclude, black people all over the world, wherever they live were for a long time victim of racism for their skin color. People treated them badly only because they had a darker skin color, forgetting that that we are all humans and the color of our skins an where we come from doesn’t indicate our personalities and beliefs. Black in America suffered a lot for reason of racism and went through the hard ships and difficulties
BLACK LIKE ME PART A - Sociological Concepts and Illustrations NORM: A rule of expected behavior in any given situation . (Class Notes, SOCI 201, Fall 2011) ANOMIE : “ Anomie is the absence of norms” (Menzies, 1998:492) ALIENATION : “A feeling of powerlessness and estrangement from other people and from oneself.” (Kendall, Murray and Linden , 2000:244) IDEOLOGY : “ When people refuse to have their understanding affected by research, they have an ideology. (Menzies 1998:488) An example from Black Like Me of a Norm is that Negroes in the South are treated by the white population poorly and with detest. They do not have the same amenities, rights or opportunities. Pg.
In a political sense, Trollope was incredibly distressed at the overall act of slavery in a country, stating more than once her dislike of the situation. She states: “and it is not the less painfully felt from hearing upon every breeze the mocking words, ‘All men are born free and equal.’” (p. 49). This not only demonstrated her distress, but it also criticized the Americans for living in a country so avidly self-described as “equal” and allowing something such as slavery to reign supreme, especially in the Southern states. This is something only an outsider could have seen at the time, as there were more pressing issues than the unconstitutional nature of slavery. Her analysis of the situation was eventually discovered, seeing as slavery was abolished.
When the media does give faces to the numbers, it's never the pretty ones. The media will make the poor look as bad as possible. They mostly provide us stories about poor urban or black people that have cheated the welfare, that are drug addicts or greedy panhandlers (Mantsios 185). The media picks a handful of poor they will represent and it's never in a good way. This never helps the poor look like normal people because the society starts hating them.
Slavery; Relations between the Black and White Man When looking upon American history in its entirety, there is a dark stain that spreads for a good chunk of the whole, starting almost from the beginning. Slavery, a word that doesn’t give enough justice to its name, a word that puts a bad taste in your mouth even though the people of today have never lived through its cruelty. Slavery may have started out as the selling of white European servants who came to America seeking a better life, but this is not the slavery that I speak off. The slavery that I speak off is the more vicious aspect of the word that grew out of that beginning. This slavery is by far one of the more difficult subjects to look upon when discussing American history and its influences.
The Constitution, until recently, did not apply to blacks; blacks feel they deserve payments from 310 years of slavery, destruction to their minds and culture. Dr. Martin Luther King's dilemma in the United States was of a different kind. He was torn between his identity as a Black man of African descent and his identity as an American. He urged Americans to judge based on the content of the character not by skin color and also believed in non-violent protests. Martin Luther King Jr’s main perspective during the fight on racism was equality.
Thus, they were officially denied every opportunity for an education in the slave states, while in the free states they were largely excluded from the schools for whites and were given only that training deemed suitable for their inferior status. Indeed, in many places in the North their exclusion from educational opportunities was as complete as it was in the South.”(pg. 78,79) Clearly blacks were deeply encouraged to forgo any hopes of a education in America. The second point of inequality John speaks of is the one in the law. John states “Inequality in the administration of justice and the enforcement of the laws was apparent to any who cared to look.
Several different races and ethnic groups didn’t like the white people but the white people ruled the country back then. Nobody but white people had rights. White people were very racist over the African Americans. For many years we used the African Americans as slaves. (P Barton) White women were discriminated against a lot because women were not allowed to work and earn money.
This shows that perhaps some blacks still hold a grudge against whites for all they have put them through in the last century. The fact of the matter is; however, that in saying only white people are racist, they are being racist themselves, therefore disproving their statement. To say that racism is a “white person’s disease” is also factually incorrect. All of us, as humans, discriminate; it is a natural instinct which we all share. Psychologist Larry A.