Race Article Reviews Samples For Students

The title of the article is “Skin Color, Perception of Racism and Depression among Adolescents in Urban Brazil. It was written by Naomar Almeida-Filho, Vilma Santana, Sharon P. Cooper and Robert Roberts. The reference list comprises “Perceptions of and Preferences for Skin Color, Black Racial Identity, and Self-Esteem Among African Americans” by Coard, Breland & Raskin, “Skin colour, perception of racism and depression among adolescents in urban Brazil” by Santana, Almeida-Filho, Roberts & Cooper and “Exploring how Skin Color and Racial Identity Modify the Relationship between Perceptions of Racism and Psychological Distress among Latinas/os” by ...

Introduction

Thesis of the article by George M. Fredrick is to explain the models of ethnic relations by Buchanan concerning the ethnic relations models among them, assimilation, separatism, hierarchy, and pluralism. This has defined and explained on how different groups relate and relate. Based on’ Frederickson essay on ethnic relation.’

Buchanan in the article appears to endorse the ethnical hierarchy cultural pluralism because it is fully inclusive and it takes its basis on the free choices of people to build their ethnic identities of their own. Cultural pluralism celebrates various perspectives about the different and diverse culture in the society. ...

This article provides a comprehensive review of the article by Lin (2002). This article addresses how media portrays racism and its influence to lifestyle and health. A sociological approach to the problem of racism is applied, arguing that the society needs to understand the different forms of racism, biological origin of racism, and its meaning in the society. Therefore, sociological concepts such as ethnocentrism, race, and ethnicity can vastly influence media’s perception on racism. The three concepts have different meanings, but are all related and can influence health practitioner’s ability to evaluate media’s coverage of racism issues. ...

“The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch” by Richard Wright depicts the writers life lessons learned by while growing up as black boy in the United States in the early 20th century. This was period when there was a lot racial segregation in the nation especially in the South. The story illustrates several of the lessons especially about race that the author had to learn. It illustrates how he had to learn to live in a society laded with racial prejudice as well as discrimination. His main argument or theme regards to how blacks living in the south were ...

Part 2: A Different Mirror [Chapter 1]

Rather than an unfolding, sanitized look at America’s historical past leading to its present in terms of ethnic diversity, Takaki takes the reader on a mini lecture-tour across time. In the chapter discussion he re-routes the audience to consider that the ideals and decisions of the U.S. forefathers (i.e. Thomas Jefferson) held the initial power and responsibility to establish the tone, power structure and belief of what evolved to become ‘American’ culture. Takaki agrees that the “narrow” focus “widely shared” is a generally accepted sense that an ‘American’ is a so-called designated ‘white’ person having descended from an Anglo Europe. The ...

Question 1

In the article What Is Internalized Racial Oppression And Why Don’t We Study It? Acknowledging Racism’s Hidden Injuries written by Karen D. Pyke, it becomes clear that internalized racism is neglected by society and it remains misunderstood. It is a factor that has led to racial inequality and if that taboo is defied then zoology will succeed in exposing the effects of racism. Internalized white racism affects all the other races that are deemed inferior and this affects every facet of life majorly on the social lives of many people. The author bases her argument on the responses ...

Article Analysis: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Substance Abuse Treatment

Article Analysis: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Substance Abuse Treatment
Racial and ethnic discrepancies exist in the health care system of United States of America for a long time. African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans are able to access American health care system but they are not able to avail all services and benefits in the same ways as white Americans avail. Racial and ethnic minority groups face various problems in accessing crucial health care services in the United States of America. This disparity negatively affects the health of racial and ethnic minority groups.
Lo & Cheng (2011) in their ...

Introduction

The US racial hierarchal system used to only demarcate the white/black color line. However, as more and more racially diverse populations migrate to the United States, the racial hierarchal system in the US adapts new ways to emphasize racial differences between whites and “others”. Guenther, Pendaz and Makene’s research about the intersections of identity of Eastern African immigrants and its impact on their racial status in the US present how racism in the United States continue to persist and grow to accommodate more and more ways to assert whites and degrade non-whites. Furthermore, the paper explores personal encounters ...

“Getting a Job in the Inner City” by Katherine Newman

The article “Getting a Job in the Inner City” by Katherine Newman is about how people from the inner cities motivate themselves in participating low wage jobs. The suburban places like the Long Island usually have low supply of labors so some of the job seekers benefit from a relatively high wage. However, the labor supplies in the inner urban places are very high that most of the jobs ended up with low wage. The main objective of the author is the article is to evaluate and analyze the main factors that make the people in the inner city stay in ...

John and Fred carter are under pressure of making a decision whether or not to race in Pocono. The dilemma is as a result of seven engine failures out the 24 races the carter team had faced. Paul, the engine mechanic has a gut feeling temperature is the main cause of damage to the gaskets. Tom disagrees with this as he considers there is no conclusive evidence for this. If the engine blows up during the Pocono race, Carters’ will lose out on their $500k oil contract, it will result in negative reputation for their team lowering the team morale, and they ...

Discrimination can no longer be eliminated in all the systems in the world because some needs it and some wants it to be done. Since the ancient years, it is possible that there is already billions of both resolved and unresolved cases of discrimination that have been filed in different courts, not counting yet the discriminations that has happened but not spoken of.
It is the form of isolation and treatment to any group of people most especially to those who are deviant to the society. Some of these groups fall under the categories of sex, religion, physical ...

The Professor's name

In the article Katrina Shows Racial Divide in America, the author Jamal Watson, reintroduces the issues of racial inequality that exists in the USA. Watson uses the historical ladder to describe the position of African-Americans in the modern society. It seems that racial divide is under spotlight only when some natural disaster affects the population of African-Americans. In this article, the hurricane Katrina serves as an evidence of the racial disparity. Watson argues that the issues of African-Americans are not presented to the rest of the world fairly. According to Watson (2007), "In my experience, many people outside America ...

Judicial independence has been argued to be an abstract that can never be achieved. Legal jurists claim that the judiciary can never be independent of control of the executive, or the legislature provided that the justices are appointed by the politicians. The view is held across the judicial and political spectrum. As a consequence, twenty-one states in the United States of America have opted to elected justices of the Supreme Court. The election of the justices of the Supreme Court is can be contracted to the appointive system where the judges were appointed by the governor in the individual states. ...

ID Number

This paper presents a brief summary and response of the reading Being an Other. In this essay by Melissa Algranati, the author shared her difficulties she experienced after being racially discriminated in the present American community. Algranati believes that people must perceive one another on the basis of characteristic traits or values instead of racial identification. Further, the author claims that gathering demographic information establishes labels which tend to influence the view of others through stereotyping. In most part of the essay, Algranati discussed her parents’ lives and the struggles that they encountered. In addition, Algranati talked about ...

Section A: Article Review

The article explains the impact of multiculturalism on the meeting industry. Different people of the world exhibit different cultures. The article depicts that the research study was conducted in order to achieve certain objectives. These include exploring and prioritizing critical issues which can improve the effectiveness of multicultural meetings, and gaining direction with respect to the role of the initiative in addressing market needs surrounding multicultural meeting. In addition, the article reveals that the research study was conducted to gather and disseminate demographic information which improves understanding of multicultural characteristics within the industry.
An online survey was conducted ...

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Introduction

Obesity in children forms a major health problem as it could lead to complications in future. Rising numbers of obese children below the age of three, especially among the Hispanic population requires greater attention from the US healthcare authorities and appropriate healthcare policies need to be sufficed for dealing with the problem. Research article by Taveras et al (2010) that deals with the risk factors associated with obesity in Hispanic children, which was found to be relevant in this context, is reviewed and discussed in detail.

Health policy issue that addresses Hispanic population

The policy issue in the article that concerns the Hispanic population is ...

Article Critique: Digital Government and the Digital Divide by Richard Groper

Introduction
The article subject of this critique is entitled “Digital Government and the Digital Divide”, written by Professor Richard Groper of California State University (CSU) in Fullerton, California, United States (US), and published as a chapter of a book entitled “Digital Government: Principles and Best Practices” edited by Alexei Pavlichev and G. David Garson. The book serves as a compilation of articles on e-governance, with most being in the form of research endeavors on certain questions on the subject matter and case studies that sought to resolve relevant controversies. Groper, for his article, has posited his thesis on questioning race as a ...

Women and Gender Studies

Article Review: Equity Study In Canada: Race, class and gender paradigms in Canada
Complex societies like Canada had a variety of challenges in terms of race, gender, and class imbalance. Razack, 1990 explains the various paradigms that determine each factor in the course of action. This review draws from a variety of major theoretical orientations that define the art of true activism. Race being vital in this outlook determines a complete set of nuances rather than other values like societies, gender, and class. These elements provide major inequities of all times. There is a critical interlocking between the major activities and the ...

In Dalton’s article on Horatio Alger’s myth, the main point is that myths are not only false but also socially destructive. He puts forward this critical point through his objection of the fact that each individual has equal opportunities of prosperity in life. The main message of Horatio Alger in his myth is that with the existing social landscape, individual success solely lie in their hands, that what comes out as a persons achievement, fortune or misfortune is by choice and only depends on the effort they put. Cohn Powell, according to Dalton tries to conceal important social ...

Article Review

"The Great Divergence" and "Class in America,” the authors discuss that the class system and social stratification have caused outstanding differences in life of people living in America. Regardless of the fact that people do not like to talk about economic inequality in America, social classes play a considerable role in their lifestyle. There exists a huge difference in the incomes of the top 1% of Americans and rest of other 99%. Contrary to the myth that America is a classless society, Mantsios explains through statistical data that the wealthiest 20% of Americans hold the 83% of total wealth and on the ...

Q1. Bell hooks dilemma in Eating the other is expression of desire. She argues that imperial nostalgia and difference of the white male is shown through cultural appropriation and accommodation. This entails that the white male has desires for the exotic female (black minority) to get pleasure. She digs deep into consequences of different representations of ethnicity and race in a culture of white supremacy. Those that dominate the strata of culture are excited by the exotic nature of the other. By the other hook means any other race or ethnic group apart from the white supremacy who believes that ...

In his work, Models of American Ethnic Relations: A Historical Perspective, George M. Fredrickson mentions the ‘burden of otherness.’ It seems that he is refereeing to racial difference and how people who were not than White Americans were considered ‘others’ and are were stigmatised and discriminated against as a result. Decades ago in America, racial contact severely involved the Indians and Blacks, because the most clear difference between individuals, and groups, was whether or not they were white. Earlier than World War II, such a pecking order was similarly centred around immigrants, mainly Irish, and Protestant over Catholics, but following the ...

In his piece, Models of American Ethnic Relations: A Historical Perspective, George M. Fredrickson talks about the ‘burden of otherness.’ In this context, he refers to racial inequality and how anyone other than White Americans are ‘others’ and are therefore treated as such. Furthermore, they are made to feel like ‘others’ and this can have a massive impact on a person’s self-confidence and sense of identity. Historically in America, racial interaction intensely hindered the Indians and Blacks as the most obvious distinction between people was whether they were white or not white. Previous to World War II, this hierarchy was ...

What was the general purpose of the study (hypotheses)?

The general purpose of the study on Mark of a Criminal Record is to analyze the manners in which the criminal records affect the information of employers while hiring employees, and the extent to which it affects it. This research believes that this is imperative because many people have been assuming that criminal records have no impact on decisions made by employers. This is because they believe that employers focus on the interactional skills and other characteristics that they can observe. Therefore, the aim of the research is to identify the degree to which employers apply criminal history without collaborating ...

Thesis statement

I chose these two similar articles because their topic revolves around the oppression of the African-Americans due to their skin color. The authors have written about how this vice has been the most difficult and challenging to eliminate in the United States. The article will be about racism and how it has hindered development in the west. Racism has been one of the most challenging evils faced by human kind. The racial difference among human beings is the reason for dominance among religions or certain ethnic groups. It denotes oppression, atrocities, and prejudice against the dominated group which were ...

Colorectal cancer has become the second leading cause of deaths related to cancer in U.S. among cancers affecting women and men. People past fifty years of age should be screened for cancer regularly using the stipulated methods. The article estimates the rate of use of different tests of colorectal cancer and also evaluates changes in use of test by comparing data from 2002, 2003, and 2006 surveys on Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance system (BRFSS). It was found that the respondents’ proportion aged fifty and above who reported the use of fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) and sigmoidoscopy had generally ...

Reaction To Stranger In The Village

Racism has been an issue in the past and is still prevailant in many parts of the world. It is sad to think that even with access to all this information, even with human rights and even with knowledge of other cultures through technology, people still choose to be ignorant and racist. Baldwin is an African American who visits Switzerland during the 50s. This was the time when men and women of color had rights in America. He visits a small village which he describes as somewhat backwater. “people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them”. This ...

Introduction

Jungle fever is a movie that focuses at on the setbacks to interracial relationship and dating. However jungle fever reviews the luminal space that join black Americans with whites rather than the issues hindering the progress of these relationships. Several reviewers have shown the inefficiency of the jungle fever and thus coming up with several limitations which include the wrong idea of black and white relationships that was shown by the playwright, the obvious scorn for incorporation, and thirdly the playwright was found to have used the wrong art.
In the effort to explore on the problem, Lee made a ...

The article ‘At the crossroads of two empires’ analyzes the discrimination that the minority races in the United States face. The minority communities in the United States include the Indians and black Americans. The article describes the racism demonstrated in the movie that was directed by Mira, a young Indian woman. Mira has made a great success in history having directed a movie that has won a national award despite being a woman from a minority group. The article evaluates how racism has caused different minority groups to fight with one another. The movie by Mira explains how the Indians in the united tastes found ...

Batson's grand jury DNA

Batson's grand jury DNA is an article that is intended to show that the defendants have no right to petition the court just because all the judges in a certain case come from a different race from the race any party in the case comes from. The aim of the author was to show that there was unfairness in the case of Batson V Kentucky. However, the constitution does not allow defendants to petition the jury because it did not constitute any member from a race one of the parties to the case belongs. The court is to decide on the judges ...

Over the past few decades, interracial relationships and racist has been an issue in cinematic representation. In America, race relations have continued to influence discrimination varying from social experiments to legal legislation. Courtney is in a position to disclose how the film industries have contributed to interracial relations and racist.
In order to deal with the issue of construction and obfuscation of interracial pairing in films, there should be established restrictions on the film’s spectacular narratives of sex gender and race. The retraction of interracial pairing indicates how identity and difference is spread in the United States. For ...

Review of Article

Crandall, et al. (2011). Lower extremity vascular injuries: Increased mortality for
minorities and the uninsured? Surgery .Volume 150, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages
656–664.

Based on this research article, there is no doubt about the need to reform the American health care system which at the moment is in tartars. Much of the debate on this health issue relates to concepts of quality, equality, concession to health care, and the amount of funds spent by the federal government in providing quality and effective health care (Crandall, et al, 2011). This study was conducted to confirm and ...

Multiculturalism is a subject that we're still trying to understand. The term multiculturalism refers to "a body of thought in political philosophy about the proper way to respond to cultural and religious diversity. Mere toleration of group difference is said to fall short of treating members of minority groups as equal citizens; recognition and positive accommodation of group differences are required through 'group-differentiated rights'" (Song, 2010). What seems clear through an analysis of these studies is that concepts of race, ethnicity, and culture support Gardner's concepts of multiple intelligences and refuse Spearman's ideas of general intelligence.

In "Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, ...

This is a review and analysis of a source of information about the Milwaukee Civil Rights Marches in 1967. The source selected and used is a document: Restrictive Real Estate Covenants, Fox Point Gardens, dated June 18, 1940 and recorded July 26, 1940.

The subject document is two pages containing a total of 18 covenants, governing and restricting the occupation and use of residential lots and dwellings on a Wisconsin village called Fox Point Gardens, located about 12 miles north of Milwaukee.

The document was retrieved from an archive called the Barbee Papers, created in 2010 by Lloyd Barbee. However the Restrictive Covenants document ...

This article focuses on some of the demographic issues that are currently facing the education system of United States of America (Linda 2010). The author of this article also focuses on how race and the color of students have a connection with the distribution of resources in the educational institutions of the country. The article also explains that there are differences in the level of quality in the educational institutions due to differences in trainings undergone by the teachers. There is inequality in the distribution of resources in these institutions. For instance, there are some institutions which receive more funds ...

The issue of hate has circulated in the social arena for quite a long time as people seek to establish a solution to this issue. It has existed since time immemorial, and was the cause for the slave trade that led to the demeaning of the African people. The same hate has found its way into the modern world where there are various reports of people who have experienced the bitter ends of hate. All over the world, there had been crimes that were propagated by hate; the killing of Jews by Hitler and the anti-Semitism movements, the massacre in Rwanda ...

The article relates to the discriminatory culture that was pervasive in the American society and the newly founded way of life that seeks to overlook racial facets. The author ably argues that the perceived more civilized culture has somehow succeeded in eradicating discriminative tendencies based on ethnicity. However the article appreciates the fact that although through the not long adapted c culture the American society has managed to progress by achieving considerable equality in most spheres of life, the same has also advantaged the white. The foregoing further denotes the author’s main thesis.
In trying to authenticate ...

Berk, ML, Schur, CL, & Cantor, JC. (1995). Ability to obtain health care: recent estimates from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Access to Care Survey. Health Affairs 14(3): 139-146.

In Berk et al. (1995), the researchers investigate Americans' ability to access health care. The findings hypothesize that a more concrete definition of health care needs, including supplementary services like dental and mental health care, among others, is needed to find ways to improve access to needed services. The data set examined in this study included findings from the 1994 National Access of Care Survey, which included 75% ...

In Harris, Hackett and Firestone's article "Double Jeopardy: Race/Ethnicity and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military" (2011), research is performed on a sample of respondents from a survey conducted by the Department of Defense, whose purpose was to figure out how often sexual harassment occurs within the military based on race and ethnicity. This was done to determine whether or not minorities have a greater likelihood of experiencing sexual harassment in the military.

According to the results, black women do not experience a higher degree of sexual harassment based on their race, but Hispanics and those of other races encounter varying degrees of ...

Analysis and response to H. Leon Prather's article "We Have Taken a City"

Leon Prather’s article “We have taken a city” is an essay about a race riot, which took place in Wilmington, North Carolina. This started when the Republicans, who were then not conservatives, merged with some white workers and farmers to ensure they had voted out the politicians who were conservatives, who are the Democrats. They intended to elect candidates who represented the entire African-American race. The Republicans mainly comprised of the African-American race. This move was a serious threat to the status quo that seemed to exist at that time and created a lot of fear among the conservatives. Therefore, the conservatives ...

Importance and Impacts of Mentoring

Abstract
In the present paper, the impact of mentoring on students and employees has been investigated. It has been hypothesized that mentoring positively impacts their overall well-being if provided considering the specific conditions of mentees. Development Mentoring is an approach to school-based mentoring in which high school students work with junior elementary school mentees. Rhodes (2002) stated that around 50 percent peer-mentoring meetings end within initial three months. However, there is a lack of research conducted on premature meetings termination and mentors' absenteeism. Karcher study, though, makes a significant contribution to the literature does not answer the reasons for ...

RACE-MAKING AND THE NATION-STATE

Anthony W. Marx article looks into the phenomenon of race-making and the nation-state using three nations that were most involved in the slave trade that occurred in the earliest part of the European colonization into new territories. These countries included the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. The focus of Marx’s article emphasizes the difference in how Brazil had less issues of racial divide than the United States and South Africa. What appears to be the problem in the way that each nation handled racial segregation and division had to do with the policies of the nation-states. Marx ...

Thesis

Years and years of racial discrimination have created the doubt that racial discrimination might not be the cause of the economic injustice. The article, Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market, focuses on the racial discrimination in the labor market. In this research paper, researchers have carried out field experiments, which give insight into the low wage market where discrimination against minorities and ex-offenders can be observed.

Methods

Herein, it should be noted that as per the analysis of the article, it came to the notice that the researchers have made use of the quantitative research method. The study has also derived ...

In our society, crime is viewed as an act for which the criminal is solely responsible. In our modern justice system, the punishment meted out for criminal acts may correspond to the crime, but there are a number of significant, overlapping societal factors that cause the criminal behavior that results in punishment. The main cause of crime is the environmental background that had a powerful influence on the transition of law-abiding children to young adult offenders. Certainly, growing up in an environment of impoverished circumstances contributes to the high rate of criminal offenses in America. Race is another highly-significant factor that ...

Introduction

Observing good ethics especially in public administration is essential in the modern society. Ethics inform individuals’ daily life decisions making providing them with standards for delineating between the right and wrong. Ethical societies promote coordination and transparency without deception. Ethics in public administration includes values such as loyalty, honesty, integrity, openness, fair-mindedness, respect and forthright communication. It involves defending, systematizing, and recommending notion of right and wrong behavior (Geuras & Garofalo, 2010). A successful public administration practitioner needs to make intelligent decisions on circumstances that present with ethical predicament. It is important to balance serving the best wellbeing for a client ...

The Effects of Deployment on Families

What are the effects of deployment on military families? Deployment is the action of moving or relocating military personnel and materials to a different location. For service individuals and military families this act can be devastating and require adjustments that frequently have detrimental effects on all family members psychological, physical, and cognitive wellbeing. For this paper two articles will be analyzed to determine key concepts that are commonly discussed in both articles; strengths and weaknesses in both article’s scholarship; the significance of both articles to clinical practice with military affiliated families; analyze if and how articles classify into ...

Considering human rights as an issue without culture, diversity, and without complicated frameworks means it is about what it implies – "human" rights. In reality, the question arises why Western ideology of feminism exhibit so many gaps when it comes to the female of the human species. The Western feminist belief about human rights as a means for establishing a commonality among global women empowerment causes limitations in bridging gaps from a global perspective and consequently demands a new way of thinking.
Theorists on universalism and women's human rights including Grewal, Bunch, and Hua provide the textual dialogue for examining this predicament. Globally, ...

FOR GERMAN SOCCER, A LYRIC DEBATE: ARTICLE REVIEW

Introduction/Summary
In this article, the Germany football team kicked up a controversy after some of its members refused to sing the country’s national anthem, The Song of Germans. The public, including football officials and former players thought that the team ought to sing to the anthem, despite the manager insisting that the players did identify with the team and their heritage was important. This occurred at a time when Germany had began re-asserting its national identity since World War II, which has however not been reflected in sports, with national teams losing players with foreign roots to other nations. ...

Study Program

Review of Keenan, J. & Evans, A. 2014. ‘‘I am a starbucks worker my life no longer belongs to me’: the performance of enstrangement as a learning tool,’ Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 101-112.
This paper examines the use of autoethnography as a means of approaching the experience of estrangement, thereby making the researcher’s personal experience a topic of investigation. Autoethnographic practices that emphasize the location of the researcher as an important response to post-structuralist epistemologies in which older forms of certainty in the validity traditional scientific inquiry have been edged out by greater knowledge that experience ...

Sue'Ann Easterling PE 551 Race in sports or athletics June 19, 2013 1 of 6

Shakib, S., Veliz, P., Dunbar, M. D., & Sabo, D. (2011). Athletics as a source for Social Status among the youth: Examining Variation by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status. Sociology of Sports Journal, 28(3), 303-328
The journal article highlights problems experienced in sports and athletics with a closer focus on the universities. The author has provided a broader sampling and research synthesis from different parts of the world thereby representing a wider and a better scope on the world of sports especially in addressing the race factor in different parts of the world. The author is an established researcher and a writer from the ...

Racial inequality in America exists since the making of America. The situation has been significantly changed in the last few decades and many African Americans have developed remarkably and achieved a lot in different fields of life, but it has not been completely abolished from the American society yet. African Americans still face the Incidents of racial inequalities however they have sacrificed many of their lives fighting from such inequalities and still fighting to get their appropriate position in the society.
Thomas Shapiro in his book “The hidden cost of being African American” has highlighted the issue and touched ...

White attitude privilege and religion

‘White privilege: A history of the concept’ by Jacob Bennett is a paper that discusses in detail the emergence and spread of the term ‘white privilege.’ Originally the term was coined in the 20th century by Peggy McIntosh. The paper basically explores how the term white privilege evolved in American history and how the meaning has changed from its original context. Also, the research in the paper is aimed at understanding the use and popular conception of the term in all academic fields as well as popular culture. The meaning of the phrase has changed drastically from what the ...

An Analysis of Richard Wright’s Blueprint for Negro Writing (1937)

An African-American literary icon, Richard Wright was born in 1908 and died in 1960 (Wallach; Wright, “Uncle Tom’s” 882). Growing up in America during the early 20th century, Wright witnessed the great oppression experienced by the African-American community in that time, instilling in him the strong desire to write for his race and struggles associated with racism in America (Wallach; Wright, “Uncle Tom’s” 882). Writing various literary pieces that talked about African-American oppression and strife for freedom and equality, Wright became a literary icon and a pride of ...

Introduction

I chose this article because it examines the fundamental issues in contemporary society. This is so because it examines the cultural ideologies that degrade the old age in society. These cultural norms are motivated by the media, which attribute the female body with consumer culture. Therefore, society should realize that aging is a sense of maturity and should embrace it as a Self-identities associated to the appearance and performance of the bodies. Similarly, aging should be based on feminist and gender ideologies because it cut across gender, race and class in various societies.

Summary

The article uses a feminist approach to explore aging ...

For History Class

- What do thinkers see as enlightenment? What makes it possible? What hinders it?
Enlightenment is the emancipation of the human minds from the baleful clutches of blind faith and dependence. It brings human race on the verge of embarking upon a new path which would be guided by knowledge and reasoning. Thus, the mind would be freed from the prejudices and rituals to bring in the new era of advancement. The societal institutions, which have for long influenced the lives of innumerable people, stand in opposition to the emancipation of human mind and independence.
- What do ...

Introduction

The book Old South, New South, or Down South?: Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement is a collection of 9 essays edited by Irvin D. S. Winsboro to reconceptualize the impression that Florida was more temperate than other southern states in regard to its relationships with civil rights leaders and the Blacks’ demands for equal rights. The author accomplishes this by exploring multiple racially motivated events, including black agency, racist assaults and political stonewalling to put his point across.
The time frame of this volume ranges from 1940s to the late twentieth century. The other contributors whose essays ...

Introduction

Martin Luther King gave great speeches in the 1960’s in America at a time of anti-discrimination on racial lines towards blacks, Asians and Hispanics. The famous speech I have a dream was given in 1963 at a time when there was great turbulence due to racial discrimination. He gave the speech to an audience of all races with majority of black and white people.

His speech I have a dream begins with a note of high positivism. It causes the crowd of people to be motivated about the changes that can happen in the future and not focus on the current happenings. He ...

Synthesis

It is evident that there are often different approaches when childbearing is considered by different racial or technical groups. Even though race seems to be controlled by in the analysis, the way that racial and cultural differ subjects interprets the childbearing question may have been a limitation in the study. It is, however, important to note that three different races comprised four observational coders according to the authors. Global ratings of parenting are obviously very subjective.
However, associations that involve authoritative parenting use of behavioral control, and healthy psychological development have been found in different cultures and subcultures. Yet ...

In gender theory the concept of women as a unified, homogeneous group is challenged through the theory of intersectionality. This theory states that the status of being female is not the only defining characteristic in oppression. As opposed to there being a unified experience of “female oppression” which defines all oppression experienced by women, oppression is defined by the interaction of gender with factors such as class, sexuality and culture (Carbado, 2013).

The movie Pariah displays a number of intersectional facets that interact to create identity. Gender and sexuality are the most obvious intersectional factors explored in the movie. However, Alike’ ...

1. Introduction
African Americans represent the second largest ethnic minority in the United States and this community is increasingly vulnerable to a range of potential health concerns. Poor sanitary conditions and limited awareness of healthy lifestyle practices increase this population’s vulnerability to health problems. Statistical evidences suggest that the prevalence rate of HIV infection is unproportionately high in this population group, and hence federal organizations like CDC are actively working on this issue. This paper will explore the relationship between HIV infection and the African American population considering the social, cultural, and behavioral factors contributing to this association.
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