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RACIAL IDENTITY  

In a modern, educated society, why do we continue to have defined racial categories?

This article is my story of my experience being a racially self identified person of Melungeon Heritage mutliracial ancestry.

As a black women, here I reflect on why its difficult for some of us to accept and appreciate interacial relationships.

We are living in a time of reality TV and new game show overload. The newest game show on NBC is called "Identity". So what makes it different or better from the other thousand game shows on the television? I have your answer.

This essay explores race and identity issues in the short story "King of the Bingo Game," by Ralph Ellison.

In most cases, racial bullying isn't about your child being of a certain race, but of being a different race than his or her parents.

Brown University publishes study concerning the ethnic identity of first-generation immigrant children.

This essay examines and discusses the emergence and existence of identity politics through the scope of Marx's The Communist Manifesto, Derrick Bell's Faces at the Bottom of the Well, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Exploring racial identity and pursuing philanthropic endeavors

It is a known fact that there are not many countries in the world comprises of multi-racial community that builds up the nation compared to the one nation country.

race, without the existence of Racism, has no effect upon the relationship between an individual and the community. Race, as it exists independent of racism, is an arbitrary classification that has no significance upon a person's identity and experience.

How miscegenation in Latin America blurred racial distinctions and affected racial hierarchy.

Using material from Soja's "Postmetropolis" and LeGates and Stout's "City Reader," this paper seeks to understand how the contemporary city develops in terms of identity, ending with a distinctly Christian viewpoint on urban development.

No-No Boy is a novel about racial identity told by Ichiro. Torn between separations of nationality and time, Ichiro demonstrates the phenomenal compliations of identity through race and nation.

This article uses sociologist Ann Arnett Ferguson's "Bad Boys" alongside others to show the catch-22 that many students find themselves in when their cultural and/or racial means of expression clash with the behavioral expectations in American schools.

Shakespeare's tale of racial otherness has been redone in O, Miramax Films' adaptation of Othello, a film delayed from general release for 2 years. The protagonist's otherness and visibility are on display, giving clues to American racial attitudes.

A careful reading of the historical subtext in Toni Morrison's Sula reveals a deeper understanding of how Morrison's conceptualizations of identity and self-revelation informs much of the novel's narrative.

A column about my opinion on racial profiling in our public transportation and the London terrorist bombings.

Two African American Authors give very different views on racial relations in America.

Many have heard about the noose that was hung from a tree at Jena High School in Louisiana this year after six Black teens had a fight with another white teen.

She was someones's daughter and maybe someone's mother. She has a name. Police just don't know who she is.

Anaylsis of interratial couplings in America.

This paper examines the integration of Aspect Psychology in Salman Rushdie's novel,"Midnight's Children." It talks about the selves within the self, are in constant perpetual change, reflecting the turbulent, ever changing India in which he lives.

A Southern tragedy that explores how racism denies a Black man's self-definition and interiority.

Worried about radical fundamentalist religious terrorists attacking the US? Got some bad news for you: you don't need to look overseas. Try peeking across your backyard fence.

An exploration of the uncanny effects of cannibalism, sex, and tattoing upon postcolonialism generally, and Melville studies specifically.

An in-depth analysis of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf" as it relates to women and race.

Students at universities and colleges across the country have fallen in love with DNA tests over the last year. But with these new technologies dictating our cultural identities, genetic testing only continues to push people farther away from each other.

As decendants of a mostly immigrant family, my sister and I grew up eating Hungarian food, hearing Hungarian spoken, and celebrating Hungarian traditions. Little did we know until recently that my late grandfather was part African-American, too.

The cultural differences and views within the Black community during the Harlem Renaissance.

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men".

The purpose of this study is to conclusively determine that there are racial differences in perceptions of what is considered attractive.

An investigation into the complicated issues of race, class, and difference.

The ideology of polylogism or collectivist relativism holds that there exists no absolute standard of reason or morality, but rather than logic and morals are different for various races and socioeconomic classes. This essay shows how polylogism leads to violence.

Although the Shawnee were recognized as a nation within America and were prepared to forget past transgressions, they instead discovered that they were viewed as a nation with no autonomy and no place on the land of their ancestors.

A look into several researchers statistical analysis of the subject.

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Rushton found that African-American women have equal or higher self-esteem levels then Caucasians or Latinos (Rushton 9).

Expanding upon G. Stolyarov II's analysis of Newspeak in Orwell's 1984, this essay relates some frightening linguistic trends in the society of today, heading toward the elimination of individualism and objective reason.

There's no reason for purely cosmetic surgery.

The US Holocaust Museum and Google have launched the "Crisis in Darfur" project, drawing attention to atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region using Google Earth technology.

We as a society have been longed plagued by the question, are we able to have a "Color Blind Society." There are a number of factors which may contribute to the breakdown of this idea in question.

There is a great excitement about what the child sees as their reflection in the mirror, but the binary opposition to that is caused by the Other imposing their Social I on the Real or Ideal I.

A comparison and contast of self made men; Ouludah Equiano and Benjamin Franklin who basically came from nothing and made names for themselves. One was a slave who became a noted author and the other became president of the United States.

Thomas Dunwitty, one of the many important characters in Bamboozled, is a self-absorbed, blue-eyed blonde television producer for a network called CNS...

As U.S. troops continue to fight in Iraq each day, the Bush administration remains in search of an answer to establish political order admist civil war. But if Iraq hopes to become an indepedent, cohesive nation some day, several changes need to be made.

A look at race in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. Race and society position are determined by clothing.

This paper explores the representation of the female image as particularly represented by Alice Walker in her novel "The Color Purple". In contrast to several male African American authors, Walker's female representations defy typical character types.

The theory of Weber provides some important insights into management who stresses the importance of hierarchy and accountability within the organizational structure.

This is an exploration on one person's perspective on being biracial in America.