The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison Farisha Rafiq Sociology 1301 Mon & Wed 9:30-11:00 am April 8, 2013 Houston Community College - Northwest Katy Campus The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison was a documentary about the lives of 6 different prisoners and what they have to do to survive eternity in Angola. Angola’s name was derived from a country in Africa. The prison was once known as a salve plantation. Though, after the Civil War they transformed it to become a State Penitentiary. It’s known for the hardest, dangerous and dirtiest prison in America and still spreads panic within the folks of the South.
The book focuses on white American myths because Keim feels they are the most dominant, negative, and in need of change. Keim’s argument is that through the media, magazines, newspapers, and children’s books, stereotypes and inventions about Africa are seared into the minds of Americans.
The ideology that Arabs are a supreme race and their needs and desires come before everyone else, is a driving force behind the Arabs hatred toward the native Darfurians. The Sudan is controlled by Arab leaders. Authoritarianism, nationalism and disenfranchisement of black Africans have all played a part in leading to genocide. The war in Darfur is made up of many different people groups. The victims of the mass murders are comprised of various black African tribes.
In the 1950’s Black Americans from South endured, de jure discrimination. Black Americans would often be victims of extreme cruelty and violence, causing death. They began to discontent their long- standing inequality. From the words of Martin Luther King Jr, and other African Americans and their supporters, they began to challenge the nation to “rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created
WR 122 11 August 2010 King Leopold’s Ghost: Illuminating Congo’s Heart of Darkness King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild is a sweeping and often revolting account of the atrocities of the Belgian colonization of the Congo and its aftermath. Using a variety of writing techniques, Hochschild creates an engrossing narrative which not only unveils a dark chapter in our global history, but also fosters an empathy in the reader to the victims of the barbarity of the time. The story unfolds around the turn of the twentieth century when European powers began to explore and colonize Sub-Saharan Africa. Belgian king Leopold II laid individual claim to the enormous chunk of land surrounding the Congo River and proceeded to strip the land of its resources, including, but not limited to, rubber, ivory, and people using a deadly system of forced labor. Under the ironic and spurious guise of humanitarianism, Leopold built himself an empire in central Africa, lining his pockets and satisfying his egotism, becoming the largest individual landowner in the world, while the brutality of his reign slashed the Congolese population by 10 million people, or approximately in half (Hochschild, 233).
The thought always in their head that beyond any field of grass or behind any tree the enemy could be waiting. John Wade the protagonist of the story found himself witnessing first hand how horrid war can be and what it can make out of individuals. He saw his whole company turn into evil selfless animals who raped and murdered the innocent and weak. In the novel, In The Lake Of The Woods by Tim O'Brien, small footnotes were attached at the end of each important chapter which give the reader clues and symbolic twists that made the novel somewhat unpredictable. The Footnote I chosen explains related truth on the Vietnam War, symbolizes what John Wade witnessed, and finally how it portrays the rest of the novel.
The mental anguish and physical destruction and pain not to mention death that this klan could instill on innocent blacks was brought across to the readers very clearly. The whole point of Walkers novel is to show the struggle, pain and hardship inflicted on a black slave and even after they were
He often spoke about the violence of racism, and frequently cited examples, which ranged from attacks from police dogs and their club-equipped guards, to being washed down by high-pressured water hoses in broad daylight. Malcolm believed these atrocities, and ones like them, to be linked to racism that had existed far before he and any African Americans of his day were born. Malcolm frequently referenced the exploitation of Africa, and cited that ancestors of African Americans reached the US on slave ships against their will. He did so in order to emphasize that white racism was not restricted to America, but was a global phenomenon that was organized by the most powerful forces of the times, whose desire for power could not be satisfied. By painting the picture that racism was an international issue, Malcolm attempted to convey that racism was not a random atrocity, but in fact, an ongoing international campaign to enslave those without power (nonwhites)
Katherine Biggers Jackson Period: 5B Imperialism and Human Brutality Imperialism and human abuse was horrible in the 19th century. It was taking place all over the world. It started in Africa around the mid 1400’s and still goes on in some parts of the world today. Some of the major offenses of human brutality and imperialism took place in Africa and Europe in the 19th century. The Berlin Conference was most likely the worst example of imperialism and racism.
Society treated people with different skin color, particularly African Americans, awfully and treating them like slaves because they believed that African Americans were inferior to upper class. John Steinbeck, author of the novella Of Mice and Men described society’s racism against Crooks, the African American stable buck. Crooks was isolated from others and being required to stay in own