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Martin Luther King and the Right to Resistance as Expressed by Thoreau

injustice. Thoreau argues that the only obligation he has "is to do at any time what I think right." He expands on this thought, w...

Racism and Sports

story interesting is that the United States all but used him to prove to Adolf Hitler that African Americans could beat Germans, a...

Social Construct of Racism

that differences of intelligence exist are often proliferated by white supremacists and other bigots in an attempt to justify thei...

Obama Charges Racism

this administrations mind. As the National Review article points out, however, the Obama camp has a rather lengthy history of pla...

A Sample Study on Institutional Racism

will lead to indictments, trials and prison sentences. Police officers notoriously have big egos and if their initial inquiry does...

Racism, Prejudice, Discrimination And Human Rights

select few should be granted the privilege of human rights. Philosophers have spent endless hours determining exactly what the co...

The New Racism/Colorblindness

interprets the Anglo-influenced mainstream cultural experience as simply the societal norm, that is, that their own experience is ...

Obama's Dreams from my father

were tears running done the cheeks of many Americans, and even those who voted against him. They were touched by the fact that an ...

Racism and Discrimination in Asia

has been made of black slavery, but the same sort of attention is not given to the Asians who suffer in silence. The Chinese who l...

Diversity Issue/Harassment

principles" (Tepper, 2009). Rather than these factors, Chew and Kelley feel that the differences in their results originate with d...

Analysis Of Two Cultures

has her husband, children, sisters and other extended family, as well, who provide the missing link to her cultural roots back in ...

Race and Ethnicity

right direction, but change is slow and the collective influence of thousands of years does not disappear easily. One theory tha...

Community and Sri Lankan, Hindu Heritage

from Muslims and Arabs and in the United Kingdom, Hindus and Sikhs have insisted that they should not be collectively referred to ...

Problems in the Administration of Justice

profiling is used to "compensate for a lack of evidence and represents poor police work" (Hajjar, 2006). Police simply round up "s...

The Government and Racial Equality

states are doing away with Affirmative Action as they assume that it has done its job and people are now equal, regardless of race...

AMERICO PAREDES: A SECRET RACISM

the end, most likely killed by her stepfather, a Hispanic, through sheer ignorance and neglect. The fact that no one seems to no C...

The Meaning Behind the Jena 6 Incident

the 2008 ticket, but still, racism has not yet been eradicated. The facts of the case suggest that racism against black people is ...

Racism and Class: 1890 to 1929

dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

Fahrenheit 911 and Portrayal of Minority Issues by Filmmaker Michael Moore

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

Incarceration Rates and What They Say About Racism in Maryland

18 white youths were arrested for dealing drugs in 1980 while as many as 86 black youths were arrested for the same crime ("Civil,...

Racial Profiling and Media Coverage

that authorities should consider what occurred during the summer of 2001 when "Phoenix FBI agent Kenneth Williams urged his superi...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Character Development

adventurous spirit that is within man, and certainly within Huck, that allows him to pursue adventure with such fervor. Of course,...

Nineteenth Century Chinese Exclusion Act

interest yet that Act was just one more reflection of the prejudice that shaped our immigration policy as a whole. Our...

Research Proposal on Ethnic Animosity

hate crimes as do whites (Lacey, 2003). When America was attacked by fanatic Muslims on September 11, 2001, one fear was an incre...

Workplace Equality?

constitutional parity and so forth - the author ends up spending a great deal of time working through the equality in the workplac...

Pacific Northwest, African Americans, and Racial Ideology

and, in fact, to some degree is still in place even today. Although the Civil War freed slaves in the U.S., it did...

American Family, Absentee Parents, and Cultural Differences

home. In this concept it is the mother who stays at home and cares for the children and the father who works outside the home in ...

California Drug Statistics

groups during the ten-year period: 16.5% juveniles and 42.1% adults (Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis, 2000). Gender p...

Considering Affirmative Action

ever wanted to be considered part of mainstream America, "they needed to gain access to all aspects of society through pressuring ...