Essay

Reaction Paper # 1 |

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10/28/2012 |

My paper is about my favorite three articles I read this week which are The ethics of Living Jim Crow, The Social Construction of Sexuality, and Deconstructing the Underclass. |

The Ethics of Living Jim Crow was one of my favorite articles. Richard Wright was trying to tell his story about how he grew up, how African American where treated different than white people. Wright starts by telling us how he learned his lesson in how to live as a Negro, when he lived in Arkansas. One day he and his gang got in a war with the white boys who lived beyond the tracks. The white boys where using broken bottles and him and his friends were only using cinders, to Wright and his friend that was more like friendly fun fight but to that white boys it was war he ended up getting hurt. When Wright moved to Mississippi he was in a black neighborhood, but when he found a job he had to work for white people. When he was working with white people he was treated well until he tried to learn something new or different he started having problems and had to quit his job or get beat up.

Back in the day African American where treated without any respect they treated like animals they had no rights. Whenever they talked to white people they had to talk to them like they were superior and they should not dare disagree with them or talk to them without saying sir because they would be in big trouble they could even get killed for that. I am so disgusted with white people’s behavior back then, what gave them the right to treat African American that way? What made them think they were superior? I don’t know how African American where able to put up with that kind of behavior and be treated like trash. I think it is so sad that people had to go through all that and my respect for those people who did.

The Social Construction of Sexuality is about how people think about sexuality. Sexuality as “natural” human sexuality. Ruth Hubbard...