I don't know but a long essay or dissertation is involving personal research, written by a candidate for a college degree.
Apartheid, Race, and Human Connection
In My Children! My Africa!, Athol Fugard shows how the apartheid regime reserved wealth and power for white people by dividing South African society along a racial line and ruthlessly exploiting the Black majority. But the racial divide also serves another purpose: it geographically, socially, and politically separates groups of people from one another, in order to try and prevent white people from recognizing non-white people’s humanity and fighting for social equality.
Personification because the sentence is giving nonliving things human features
