Submitted by maiohhmy on November 7, 2007

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&Quot;Black Men And Public Space&Quot;

Outer appearances are the first characteristics that one notices before actually knowing the person. In “Black Man and Public Space”, Brent Staples claims that he is a black man, whenever in the public, is met with fear from his surrounding due to his race’s cultural stereotypes. In this excerpt, Staples describes the reactions he receives as he walks near a white, well-dressed woman. Although Staples is a highly credible character with a PhD from the University of Chicago; and is far the forged perception of the “black males who are drastically overrepresented as the perpetrators of violence“, he often gets mistaken for a criminal. People noticeably communicate “the language of fear”...

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