Brent Staples " Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space"

In this essay, Brent Staples talks about the difficulties of being an African- American in urban Chicago. He talks about being discriminated by being his race during the 1960s. The person who was looking at the author was a young white woman who was around twenty years old or more of age. As soon as she looked at him, the young woman was in the lookout that he could have been someone bad like a rapist, a mugger or a assasin. As the author got older, he moved to New York and was still careful of the violence that can happen in the streets of New York as well as Chicago. He explains in this essay a mixture of narration and descreptive to explain the image of the violence that happens in the urban ghetto with the difficulties of seeing death in front of his face.