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Upon finishing the week, on Friday Troy and his friend Bono talk about what they witnessed during the week. While arriving home, Bono brings up the subject of how he knew that Troy was not going to get fired from work. Upon entering Troy comes face to face with his son, Lyon, who is there to give Troy back the money he borrowed from him. After, seeing this Bono and Lyons greet each other and Bono talks about the promotion Troy got at his job.  He states, “ your daddy got a promotion on the rubbish. He gonna be the first colored driver. Ain't got to do nothing but sit up there and read the paper like them white fellows "( Wilson, 1168). In this quote it is clear that a black man getting a promotion is not an everyday thing. This can be observed in the way Bono talks about the incident. The idea of race is seen impacting Troy’s opportunity and type of work. This is seen through the fact that there are societal roles which have been placed upon each race and the type of job he or she is supposed to pursuit. In this case, the author characterizes that the job for whites is to be the drivers, who drive a truck and “read papers”. In comparison, the job for blacks like Troy are labor intensive work, which do not pay a significant amount needed for survival. The author through this quote shows how the topic of race effects Troy day to day life which includes his job. Troy’s race has a major impact on his job, due to the fact that based on his color Troy was not allowed the job of being a driver for a long time. This leads to a lack of funding from Troy to support his family, which in turn leads to conflicts between Troy and other members of the family. This impact race has on Troy’s job also, affected the way Troy feels about himself.  This is due to the fact that when not being able to provide his family's needs, he begins to question his masculinity. In

Black No More and “The Negro Art Hokum” give important insight into how George Schulyer views race and identity, the importance of essences, and his stance on racial anti-essentialism. Black No More does clearly challenge Schulyer’s ideas in his essay that race in the way it is construed in the U.S. is not a meaningful essential part of who a person is because although our main protagonist Max Disher was able to be white in appearance thus being able to fit into white society, in essence he was still a black man and found his social kinship with members of Harlem’s black community. Essence makes a person who they are in conjunction with their physical racial attributes. In some cases who a character is on the inside does not always match up with their outward appearance, as in Black No More with Disher’s white skin and his black mentality.

The colors in this piece are instrumental in moving the eye across the piece and drawing attention to specific parts of the piece. For instance, for the most part, the colors that are used are dark. However, to emphasize General Wolfe, the focal point in the middle, his outfit is painted in a brighter red and yellow and the ground beneath him is light as well. Also, in order to allow the eye to glide across the painting almost all of the soldier’s uniforms are red, creating rhythm. One solider, who is apparently rushing into see Wolfe, is painted in green, which is the complimentary color to red. The use of complimentary colors brings the eyes attention to the panicked solider, emphasizing the overall sense of urgency in the piece. The piece is also well balanced and uses appropriate scales and proportions.

5. Mr. Johnson is an artist who represents himself and forces people to see things from new perspectives. Artists also try to find the true beauty in the world and recreate it on canvas. Mrs. Parker was trying to cover up the color on her face, using black and white make up believing the color was shameful. When Mr. Johnson wipe the makeup off her face, which is can also be seen as paint, he is revealing her try beauty. This is iconic because he removed the “paint” to find the try beauty instead of paint it on.

In the book Anthem, the color white is a symbol for innocence or lack of individuality of the citizens and also symbolizes death. This is because the color white often shows up at important parts of the plot to show the state of Equality 7-2521’s belief (or lack there of) in the society that he lives in. Anthem was written by a woman named Ayn Rand, who escaped communism and strongly believed in the importance of individuality. Her views show up in both the surface meaning and the symbolic meaning of Anthem. In chapter one of Anthem, Equality 7-2521 finds an old subway tunnel, and the white glow of the iron tracks lead him to break the law even more than he already has by creating the light bulb. This leads to the death of his belief in the

The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man depicts the narrator as a liminal character. Beginning with an oblivious knowledge of race as a child, and which racial group he belonged, to his well knowing of “white” and “black” and the ability to pass as both. On the account of liminality, the narrator is presenting himself as an outsider. Because he is both a “white” and “black” male, he does not fit in with either racial group. In the autobiography of an Ex-colored man, James Weldon Johnson uses double consciousness to show the narrators stance as a person that gives up his birthright for the “privilege of whiteness”.

The color white is used throughout The Book Thief to symbolize death, innocence, and sadness. Early in the novel Death uses white to describe death, “White is without question a color, and personally, I don’t think you want to argue with me” (Zusak 6), Death says that “you” do not want to argue with him because he determines how long that “you” will live. White is also associated with death because the color white symbolizes peacefulness when people die, they are peaceful and innocent (Morton). Later in the book Death associates white with innocence, “The sky was white but deteriorating fast” (Zusak 470), Zusak said this because the sky looked harmless when it was white then later in the novel when the sky turns back to brown and red (Morton). Hans was sad when the war was starting in Germany because he knew that there were going to be a significant amount of casualties. When the

Colors have a large impact on society. They have the ability to affect people’s moods, appetites, and behaviors. Colors also have the ability to act as symbols. For example, the color white often acts as a symbol of innocence, and the color yellow often represents happiness. Throughout the book The Great Gatsby, multiple colors symbolize different aspects of Jay Gatsby’s life.

However, because of what white signifies, we can assume she is also using it to protect herself metaphorically from all the fear and hatred out in the world that is driving her crazy. Especially when she tells her son to “tell [her] when it’s over” (93). By ‘it’ she means the war, because that is the true source of all the violence and worry that causes the mother to want to be alone. The mother demonstrates how fear causes isolation because she expresses fear when she is startled by the dinner bell and it leads to her isolating herself with the white curtain.

Neda Maghbouleh’s The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race is a book that demonstrates the harsh and often complex reality of being an Iranian in America. By law, Iranians are classified as white and at home, this classification is supported by the “Aryan Myth” that Iranians are white. To support her idea that there are limitations of whiteness, Maghbouleh cites past court cases as well as case studies of several Iranian Americans who experience racism in their everyday lives. Based on the information provided by the book, I will argue that the laws that classify whiteness and its effect on Iranian Americans is a main factor in why Iranians are treated like outsiders. I will also argue that the way whiteness is perceived by American society also contributes to how limiting it is to be classified as white.

When you live in the suburbs of Atlanta, it was easy to forget about whites. Whites were like those pigeons: real and existing, but rarely seen or thought about…everyone had seen white girls and their mother coo-coing over dresses; everyone had gone to downtown library and seen white businessmen swish by importantly, wrists flexed in front of them to check the time as though they would change from Clark Kent into Superman…those images were a fleeing as cards shuffled in a deck, where as the ten white girls behind us were real and memorable (179).

“Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination” written by American author, feminist and social activist, bell hooks, dissects the dichotomy of black and white culture in a westernized society. Hooks utilizes the term ‘whiteness’ throughout her piece as an acknowledgment of the domination, imperialism, colonialism, and racism that white people have asserted among black people. This discipline progressively has evolved from history; through slavery and forth, leaving an imprint in

The color white is associated with purity and innocence. Gatsby and Nick, the main male characters in the story, can be affiliated with this

to the white men, which is where the title of the book is derived. The

Later along in the story, we can even see the full extent of the effects from these experiences as it had stuck with him for a majority of his life. This fear of the white community had also given him a sense of respect towards them, but still did not fully learn the “proper way to act”. An example is shown in one job that he had, when he asked his employers if he could “learn something” about the job he was in due to how “The boss instructed these two to help me (the narrator), teach me, give me jobs to do, and let me learn what I could in my spare time”. Once he tries and reminds them about teaching him, this is seen as an attempt to “exceed his boundaries” and eventually has to leave this job. Like the last event, he explains the situation to his family and they also think the same thing as they had called him a “fool”, and