Drawing the Color Line Drawing the Color Line by Howard Zinn the second chapter from A People’s history of the United States. The authors writes this chapter to explain racism and how it started‚ “a continent were we can trace the coming of the first whites and the first blacks-might supply at least a few clues” he wants to use history to try to explain why it started. In this chapter Howard Zinn gives us an insight on Slavery and racism in the early 17th century of America. This chapter does
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Background Information: Intro: Drawing the Color Line shows the development of racism in our country and how our society has lowered people of a different race other than caucasian to be the "have-not’s" of society. Background Information: Sometimes it is noted that‚ even before 1600‚ when the slave trade had just begun‚ before Africans were stamped by it—literally and symbolically—the color black was distasteful. In England‚ before 1600‚ it meant‚ according to the Oxford English Dictionary:
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to the Americas to be sold for a profitable amount in order to work the plantations and to be a slave to their white masters for the rest of their lives gaining increasing and wealth for their masters. Zinn explains all of this in Chp 2‚ “Drawing the Color Line.” He explains the mistreatment and punishment that blacks encountered during the time of slavery and the physical and psychological effects that blacks were compelled to endure for the countless years of slavery and downright brutality. Slavery
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Felicia Cohn Professor Richard Stafford History 130-08 18 March 2014 Chapter 2 Summary Drawing The Color Line “Sails furled‚ flag dropping at her rounded stern‚ she rode the tide in from the sea. She was a strange ship‚ indeed‚ by all accounts‚ a frightening ship‚ a ship of mystery.”(Pg. 23‚ J. Redding) Without knowing what was to come they looked at the ship with most likely a look of shock. Not knowing what was to come‚ ahead of their journey and with this beaut they might have
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The color line‚ W.E.B. Dubois viewed it‚ is a line drawn between two groups of individuals (not necessarily of different races) that accentuates the contemptuous discrimination of Western literature‚ philosophy‚ and various other meanings. Du Bois said on the start of his groundbreaking book entitled “The Souls of Black Folk” for the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line a statement setting out to show people the strange meanings of being black here in the dawning of the
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3.) According to DuBois‚ “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” Using several representative examples‚ consider how American writers (of any color) since the Civil War have addressed this problem. DuBois’s quote‚ "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line‚" tells a great deal of how Americans in general felt towards segregation -- each side had suspicions about the goings-ons of the other race. Blacks had a stronger sense of such hesitency
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The Color Line Essay It was the year 1903 when W.E.B DuBois stated that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." The border is the 21st century color line. (Common Dream.org) The color line was basically a line that reserved all the best jobs in the economy for a specific group of individuals. At the same time‚ however‚ these jobs were denied from and kept away from another group of people (Common Dream.org) This was done so through both private institutions and
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Life on the Color Line is a powerful tale of a young man’s struggle to reach adulthood‚ written by Gregory Howard Williams one that emphasizes‚ by daily grapples with personal turmoil‚ the absurdity of race as a social invention. Williams describes in heart wrenching detail the privations he and his brother endured when they were forced to remove themselves from a life of White privilege in Virginia to one where survival in Muncie‚ Indiana meant learning quickly the cold hard facts of being Black
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vision of him as "just like me" and lived a hard and dangerous life. Part of the significance of the book is the author’s ability to contrast his life with his brother’s. Another significant factor is his ability to translate from both sides of the color line his unusual and amazing life experiences. The author‚ who looked white himself‚ recounts many experiences in Muncie of being forcefully coached to "stay in his place" as a black person. The result is that the reader thinks "Am I glad I don’t
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Life on the Color Line Life on the Color Line is a memoir by Gregory Howard Williams talking about his life and what it was like to grow up in Muncie‚ Indiana as a white colored boy. It starts off in Virginia where the Williams family owns and lives in an Open House Cafe for all the war soldiers and veterans black and white alike. Since they were “on the color line” of Virginia bordering between white and black neighborhoods‚ Greg’s father Buster was able to house both colors in the bar and keep
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