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School System Cultural Wealth Increases

that spans generations. This observation also implies that there is no easy fix. In some way, Martins views on cultural wealth ar...

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...

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...

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...

Jack London’s Call of the Wild

was apparently controversial at the time, but clearly desired. One critic, in looking back at the time wrote, in 1928, "that a hea...

The Plight of African Americans in the United States

people..." (p.88). It is an idea that makes sense. There are differences of opinion between people and a hatred festers. Similar t...

TV Bias

In this paper the question of whether bias still exists in television is asked with researchers and writers all contending there i...

Female Trendsetters During the Heyday of Jazz and Big Band

This paper addresses issues of racism and sexism faced by female musicians during the nineteen-thirties and nineteen-forties. Thi...

Hurricane Katrina: What Really Went Wrong?

could have packed a bigger wallop and even if the levees did not break, the people would have been devastated, but that did not ha...

Alice McIntyre/White Talk

rationalize their own behavior. It is talk that serves to "insulate white people from examining their/our individual and collectiv...

Social Issues in Education

and in the end, they will be accepted to prestigious universities that are much less accessible to the poor or middle class. This ...

Racism as Viewed by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois

Racism as presented in the Atlantic Compromise address of Booker T. Washington and The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois is co...

The Unpopular Affirmative Action

In this paper consisting of four pages it is argued that cultural racism deeply embedded in American society required the necessit...

Human Spirit, the Holocaust, and Racism

In ten pages the Holocaust is examined in a discussion of racism and the human spirit's perseverance as depicted in Elie Wiesel's ...

Social Inequalities and Ethnic Differences in the United Kingdom

In five pages this paper examines racism in the UK in a consideration of why there are inequalities and how they have historically...

Overview of Hate Crime

In eight pages the hate crime of racism is presented in an overview that includes various theories, legislation, study methodology...

Sexism and Racism in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

In five pages this paper examines the novel by Toni Morrison in terms of how it thematically portrays sexism and racism. There ar...

Two Topics Under Examination, Racism and Homosexuality

The writer develops two differing topics in this paper. The first is a response to a 1994 article entitled The Biological Evidence...

Racism and Culture Defined in 'The Souls of Black Folk' by W.E.B. Du Bois

to keep at least a semblance of their culture together. In fact, there has been somewhat of a movement to restore black culture in...

Problems of South Africa and Solutions

In seven pages this paper examines the poverty and racism that have historically plagued South Africa in a discussion of possible ...

Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

Discrimination in Canadian Employment: An Outline of the Problem and Possible Solutions

in combating this lingering, problematic situation. It is not as if there were never any fights in Canada. There were. However, t...

Racism in The Bluest Eye

read. Morrison presents these excerpts, and the distorted excerpts, to illustrate a nation that has long held racism out for all t...

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

Racism Within American Culture

to secure benefits for themselves "at the expense of African slaves and their American-born descendants" (Clark, 2003). Whites hav...

Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray

doctorate there in 1965 (Pauli Murray). Among other positions, Murray was a civil rights lawyer, "a professor, a college vice pres...

Justice and Epiphanies

ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Racism

with which Twain was quite familiar. There appears to be no individual he likely knew as Huck Finn, but perhaps, as a writer, Tw...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...