Spike Lee: Blackness has Many Meanings Presently in America a war is being fought. Forget about guns, planes, and bombs, the weapons from now on will be the newspapers, magazines, TV shows, radio, and FILM. The right has gotten BOLD, bolstered by their squashing of Ice-T's COP KIL...

RESTORING THE BIOLOGICAL FAMILY AND THE HUMAN FAMILY: WHITE MALE HEROISM IN THE PATRIOT, GLADIATOR, AND AMERICAN HISTORY X Recently Karen Schneider has argued that in the second half of the 1990s, the genre of "action-thrillers" changed. Whereas in the 1980s the white male hero of suc...

Roles in History Discrimination, whether motivated by differences in race, nationality, religion, or gender, prevents American citizens from experiencing true freedom. Discrimination has existed in many forms, both legally condoned and legally punishable, and has become a part of American history ...

We live in a society that draws lines and builds boxes. These creations function as a means to place people in categories to describe, identify, and imprison individuals into certain groups. One means of classification that we have is race. It is a simple way to create boxes and stereotypes abou...