In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Ted Talk, "The Danger of a Single Story," she discusses the importance of being exposed to more than one viewpoint, especially as a child. Being exposed to more than a "s…
Race and Ethnicity
Race relations rely heavily on social interactions between ingroups and outgroups, according to Gordan Allport's famous theory of intergroup contact or contact hypothesis. He found that the more conta…
I know we have all, or at least most of us, been in a place where we felt discriminated against, belittled, or just felt out of place simply because of our appearance or our background. Society often …
The Reconstruction of the United States after slavery ended was not successful or beneficial to black Americans. Even after the reconstruction period, black Americans were still getting discriminated …
Today, it is not uncommon to see people of different races, ethnic backgrounds, or cultural groups coexisting in the same society. According to the Guardian (2018), 258 million people migrated to othe…
There are over 7 billion human beings on the globe. Each one of these people possesses some type or multiple types of uniqueness that sets them different from the rest, whether it is physical or a per…
For some time now, there has been lots of stereotypes for different social and ethnic groups. My ethnic group happens to be the race of African Americans. African Americans have been on the receiving …
In the past along with the present race has always been something that's considered a controversial topic, where many are afraid to voice their opinions on it. In Recitatif by Toni Morrison, she does …
Bonnie Davis wrote, "Our culture is the lens through which we see the world" (6). I am a White female who was raised in a white nuclear two-parent home. We were in the middle class, and we were Cathol…