Essays on Racism

People of all ages feel an immense desire to fit into the world around them. Outcasts are apart of every society. Outcasts in society do not choose their position, but instead, society itself chooses it for them. An outcast is usually the type of person...

During World War I, Canada’s Indigenous and First Nations communities had always been the target for racism by European settlers. The novel ​Three Day Road​, written by critically acclaimed author, Joseph Boyden uses the literary lens of critical race theory to further focus on racism...

This essay focuses on the stereotypes and microaggressions that Africans experience. It explores the complex interactions between privileged and oppressed social groups, specifically the interactions between Edward, the workshop organizer and the African women attending the workshop. This essay claims that Edward and his wife...

In the novel, The Known World, Edward P. Jones sheds light on slavery as a social system and the type of culture it produces. Through various stories from the perspectives of different characters, Jones paints a picture of how the practice of slavery transformed into...

‘The Flowers’ (1973), is a bildungsroman short story by Alice Walker set in the deep south of 1930s America. Exploring the loss of innocence of a 10-year-old girl Myop, and the conflict between the fantasy of a child’s mind and the reality of the world...

European racism during the Victorian Era was solely based on science, religion, class, colonial conquest and ties to slavery. British Literature during that time contained different racial, social, and moral standards compared to now. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings were not generally made for the...

In the Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison presents a community which a racist ideology is internalized. The sufferers of racial abuse in this community both endure and resist in a complex inverse interrelationship between the two actions. This contradiction of the internalization and the insurrection of...

Race discrimination goes back a thousand years before the colonization of countries African, Asian and American continents. The English, French, Italians, and Spaniards spearheaded the colonization of these countries. However, years before colonization, slave trade was very popular with people with black skins and coloreds...

What is racial discrimination? And why do people continue to be racist after many things happen, and after many talks about how much the racism is a disgusting thing? When we look at the meaning of racism word in the dictionary, we see and discover...

Coca-Cola is a well-known American company. It is one of the largest international beverage companies in the world. It manufactures nonalcoholic beverage, syrups and concentrates. Since its origination in late1800’s, it expanded rapidly and was evident that it was here to stay. The company is...