SEO Scholars at Vassar

As high school students in the SEO Scholars Program spend a week at Vassar College intensely engaging the American civil rights movement, they post short critical reading and writing exercises to this site—it is a repository for their ideas, a chance for them to comment on each other’s work, and a way to share and continue that work with teachers and peers at home. Enjoy.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

2nd Assignment

In "The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader" suggests that negro children has this idea of their position in society when they are compared to whites. It states, "The fact that young Negro children would prefer to be white reflects their knowledge that society prefers white people." Thus, children have this idea that is embedded in their mind at a young age that white people would be more successful and that it is better to be white.

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