Killers of the Dream (Lillian Smith) 
.... The politicians, says Smith, found allies in the
poor white southerners for their crusade against Negroes (Smith 143-144). They ....
(1229
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Frederick Douglass
.... He would receive lessons from the
poor white children in his neighborhood by having a ready supply of bread with him, since the
poor white children were often ....
(629
3
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Sugar & Slaves
.... This can be seen once more in his use of language that tries to appeal to our emotions and raise our concern for the "
poor"
white planters, "By 1680 the
white ....
(1668
7
)
Bondage and Freedom
.... As for others,
poor whites and blacks, freedom was seen as counter-productive, for free blacks and
poor white workers without economic independence offered ....
(1801
7
)
Problem of Mobility for Poor Youths
.... the Brothers. The Hallway Hangers are
white youth, and they reject dominant societal values and have low aspirations. They were ....
(1486
6
)
Booker T. Washington
.... subfamilies and augmented households.
Poor white families and
poor black families were compared after 1880. Rural black communities showed ....
(1592
6
)
"On the Subway" by Sharon Olds
.... The subway serves as a metaphor for a society divided, and the subway car itself is one of the few places where rich and
poor,
white and black, come together ....
(787
3
)
Monkeybites (Dorothy Allison)
.... Both are
poor white college girls with addictive tendencies, low self-esteem, and violent pasts, struggling to develop a healthy relationship based on trust ....
(787
3
)
War on Poverty Johnson
.... beginning" (Johnson 1). Johnson understood the dire economic conditions of many Americans, including
poor white Appalachians and
poor minority urban residents. ....
(1890
8
)
Stranger With A Camera
.... and 1960s, conditions were so bad in terms of lack of education, illiteracy, poverty, healthcare and other social aspects that this
poor,
white, rural region ....
(971
4
)
GWTW
.... Slattery's because she disdains their draining Miss Ellen's energy, "Miss Ellen got not business wearing herself out-waiting on
poor white trash." Journalists ....
(2071
8
)
Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities
.... a role of inculcating values in students and of leveling the racial, economic, and class distinctions that have grown up between rich and
poor,
white and black ....
(2158
9
)
Women in 19th Century
.... The institution of slavery in the south at this point not only made
poor white working class laborers a supplemental form of labor, but it also kept wages for ....
(2936
12
)
Working Women in 19th Century
.... The institution of slavery in the south at this point not only made
poor white working class laborers a supplemental form of labor, but it also kept wages for ....
(2796
11
)
Southern Reconstruction Government
.... Now the
poor white farmers of the Southern mountains could vote, many of whom had considered the Civil War a rich man's war. These ....
(2441
10
)
Slave Biographies
.... He bribed
poor white boys with extra bread to help him learn to read, and he copied letters and words used by workers to mark ship parts to learn how to write. ....
(1248
5
)
The Segregated Poor in America
.... of pneumonia is 10 times as high in the black areas as in the
white - can help .... Less than 13 percent of doctors practicing in the
poor areas of the Bronx are ....
(898
4
)
Reducing Poverty in the US
.... of income distribution, while social activists are more apt to be concerned with the distribution of income between the wealthy and the
poor,
white and non ....
(2581
10
)
Preventive Health Services: A Review of Literature
.... Further,
poor white women were also more likely to have never undergone a Papanicolaou smear than were
poor black women (Calle, et al, 1993, p. 56). ....
(6496
26
)
Women in the Civil War
.... Furthermore, the role of
poor white women in conducting the work of the family farm was well documented even before the onset of war. ....
(8133
33
)
Impact of White Collar Crimes
.... The impact of such a trend on the incidence of
white collar crime would be the increased victimization of the
poor and powerless. ....
(5360
21
)
The Lorenz Curve
.... Social activists are more apt to be concerned with the distribution of income between the wealthy and the
poor,
white and non-
white, and male and female. ....
(1063
4
)
Frederick Douglass' Use of Literacy
.... Ironically, Douglass was better fed than some of the
poor white children, with whom he traded bread in return for "that more valuable bread of knowledge" (83). ....
(1620
6
)
Themes in the Novel, The Bluest Eye
.... novel is that the world is run by and for
white people, especially
white people with power and property, and that black people, particularly
poor black people ....
(1312
5
)
Territorial Expansion
.... This is because Helper believed free,
poor white men were subjected to as bad if not worse conditions than their black slave counterparts. ....
(1244
5
)
Women in Film
.... to make the American Dream all the more complete if unrealistic, it featured a loyal and devoted black mammy who could not leave her
poor white employer in the ....
(2824
11
)
Gone With The Wind
.... She is selfless in her charity to others to the point where Mammy criticizes her for helping "
poor white trash" when she should be taking care of herself. ....
(2100
8
)
Sojourner Truth
.... State laws that had the effect of giving
poor white men the vote but disenfranchising rich black men were accompanied by de facto segregation in Northern ....
(1828
7
)
Women and the Civl War
.... Time and again, in different counties in North Carolina, have we seen the
poor white wife of the
poor white husband, following him in the harvest-field from ....
(9049
36
)
Policy & Treatment of Homeless Children
.... of income distribution, while social activists are more apt to be concerned with the distribution of income between the wealthy and the
poor,
white and non ....
(3786
15
)
