African American And Asian American Women

The intersection of dominant ideologies of race, class, and gender are important in shaping my social location and experiences. By exercising my sociological imagination (Mills, 1959), I will argue how my social location as an Asian American woman with a working class background has worked separately and together to influence how I behave, how others treat and view me, and how I understand the world. The sociological imagination has allowed me to understand my own “biography”, or life experiences by understanding the “history”, or larger social structures in which I grew up in (Mills, 1959). First, I will describe my family’s demographic characteristics in relation to California and the United States to put my analysis into context. I

The journal article begins by introducing an African American couple who resided in Russellville, Kentucky. James Wright held an occupation as a corn cutter while his wife Gladys worked as a cook in a white home. The time span of their journey occurred at the beginning of the great depression all the way through World War II. Seeking better employment opportunities, James traveled to Louisville. Although, his first couple trips were in vain. His resilience and determination eventually lead to a job working for International Harvester. During an era of many trials and tribulations, James found a way to support himself and his family by migrating from a rural to an urban area. By sharing this anecdote the author establishes a mood of hardship

The United States is the "land of the free, and the home of the brave" according to the song, but there is a dichotomy that exists between those who have called the United States their home for a long period of time, and those who are immigrating to the US. Asian Americans are a group that very few think of as having difficulties because the stereotype is of a group that is intelligent and is actually doing better than the average American. While this may seem to be true, better grades in a school setting does not mean that people who come from other countries are not experiencing racism (both overt and subtle), stereotyping and alienation in this country. Although there has been some difficulty, many groups are experiencing newfound hope because of the actions that they are taking. The plight, and the hope of the Asian cultures are being documented by artists of different stripes who are eager to depict what has happened to Asians as they try to build their own America, and assimilate into the one that was built before they came. In this paper, the Asian American cultures will be examined through the art that has been produced over the many years that Asian people have striven to make their way as new Americans.

The former slaves considered landowning a large part of freedom, plus they needed territory to plant and crop. White landowners replaced slavery with sharecropping, where the sharecropper borrowed a share of the landowner’s crop and cared for and harvested the crop. The landowner will provide housing for their sharecropper; in return the sharecropper would pay back the amount borrowed plus payment for borrowing, which would leave the sharecropper in more debt. This gave landowners an advantage over their sharecroppers because it made a steady workforce because they were still in poverty and had to repeat the cycle until the sharecropper had enough money to work on his own. This caused a long cycle of poverty for former slaves and poor white

To begin, the Sharecropping System was just a legal form of slavery. (Schultz,284) Freed blacks were once again tied to land owned by white employers. Land owners shortened blacks freedom by keeping them from owning land.(Schultz,284) Knowing they did not have money, their employers provided farming equipment, housing, and food. (Schultz,284) This meant that the land owners would gain a larger share for providing them the necessities.(Schultz,284) Sharecroppers

Although the Civil War was the ladder to ending slavery once and for all.. Southern states like Texas, Mississippi and many more. When in doubt these southern states found a ways to encounter cheap labor for their profit. A new process called sharecropping was now on the rise. Sharecropping met within the regulations and didn’t come at the expense of slaves. Sharecropping was becoming the new best thing in the south. Although African Americans were still being targeted as the best workers since sharecropping allowed for payments of lower wages to benefit at the farmers

Though a new culture was reborn, many African Americans hoped for a new life up in the north even though the promise of owning their own lands had not materialized. There was deep hatred and violence in the south because African American’s rights and

Asian Americans (AAS) are diverse ethnic group’s origins from the Far East Southeast Asia and Indian continents. More than 800 languages are spoken among AAS. They are one of the fastest growing populations in the US. 43 percent increase between 2000 & 2010. There are 15.5 million Asian Americans living in the United States (2012 Census Bureau population). Even if all Asian Americans have the same traits, such as strong family values, importance in educations, following tradition and valuing personal relationship, still there are many differences in language and culture among Asian American groups as well. In 2012, the total private insurance coverage for Asian Americans was 68.8 percent, as compared to 74.4 percent for the non-Hispanic White population. 15 percent of Asian Americans were uninsured, as compared to 10.4 percent non-Hispanic White Americans.

The beginning of ‘near slavery’ began soon after the convention meeting held on May of 1879 by black delegates, establishing the idea of sharecropping, tenant leasing, later leading to peonage. Sharecropping existed since the Reconstruction era. In the early 1870’s white landowners made their land available to black farmers in exchange for half or even more of the crops, offering black farmers less than what it is usually worth. Aware of this black farmers refuse to disobey in any way because of the consequences that they would face. Being equipped with all of the necessities for cropping it was their duty and task to determine when they wanted to work. Regardless they still had to pay the landowner the loan for the land and provide a share of the crop. Eventually, black farmers will face disastrous weather affecting crop production, resulting in debts. When one is inclined to debts it leads to peonage, which is when landowners hold debts against black farmers, preventing them from leaving until the debt is paid off. If anyone attempted to leave they will be arrested. Due to this, convict leasing was established and black people, both men and women who were imprisoned were forced to work to death. They were were no longer cared for and were forced to work with chains cuffed to their legs, literally returning to the forms of slavery (Section 14).

C. S. Lewis wrote, "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." After the Emancipation of the slaves in the American south, many ex-slaves had nowhere to go. Consequently, most had skills that were limited to, farm work or working in the plantation house. By the same token, many years afterward, African Americans, were still born into the southern caste system of sharecropping. Ironically, it was called sharecropping but at the end of the harvest, the profits would be split, with half to the plantation owner and half to the working family. According to my great-great grandmother, who lives only ten minutes from me, part of this arrangement was that the sharecropper family was allowed to live on the plantation land, in quarters constructed for use by a sharecropper family. Once the crops were harvested, the cost of the seed and fertilizer, used to grow the crops, was deducted from the working family’s half of the profits. Also, subtracted from their half of the profits, were food staples to survive until the

Sharecropping is the agreement between white plantation owners and former slaves or poor whites to hold a portion of land to pay rent and farm on, while they pay the owners a portion of earnings from the crops they produce. This way, if the former slaves or poor whites were not eligible to begin farming on their own due to their lack of money and/or tools, they can at least earn a small portion of their own to begin. The two sources in this essay are both contract agreements between land owner and sharecroppers. Both present similar ideas and specifications within their own contract, including responsibilities for the croppers aside from planting such as cleaning the stables, ditching, and fencing, while also proposing differences, such as

Sharecropping was the act of working for a landowner in return for a share of crops, seed, fertilizer, and supplies. This act was less important to maintaining the “Jim Crow” system. African-Americans did not have a “master” anymore. African-American were now no longer considered “slaves.” They worked for their survival, and often brought their own mule, plow, and line of credit from the country store to work on the fields.

The immigrants from abroad and the African-Americans both left their homelands of restricted opportunities and sought to find better ones. The African-Americans came without proper clothing and skills, unaware of the future obstacles ahead. Their environment and surroundings were significantly different in the South than the lively cities in the North. Before migrating, the African-Americans lives consisted of mainly working in the fields in the blistering, hot sun, or working as servants or tenants for white property owners; they had never laid eyes upon a building or factory. For the immigrants, coming to urban America was an enormous change as well. They were oblivious to the American culture, American politics and economics, and were unable to read or speak English, in most cases. While settling in the northern cities, there were certain harsh conditions that the African Americans along with the immigrants experienced. They both were forced to live with their families in small, unsanitary living spaces due to the intense persecution and racialization from American outsiders. Families in neighborhoods grouped together, and each family member contributed economically to the family income. To relieve these challenges and harsh conditions, both African-American and immigrant groups were obliged to do certain tasks in the new, metropolitan surrounding.

Low wages motivated many blacks to move North. After the Civil War, sharecropping became the new name for exploitative slave labor. The Thirteenth Amendment freed slaves, but there were few programs or resources for new freedmen to start businesses or find different types of jobs. Former masters and freedmen agreed on sharecropping. The landowner would loan tools and seed to the worker, and the worker would use those tools to grow crop and use the harvest to pay back his loans. However, when the time came for the freedman to make his loan payment (in the form of harvest) at the end of the year, the landowner subjectively decided what the value of the loan payment was. The harvest, the landowner usually felt, didn’t cover the cost of the loan, or the freedman did pay back his debt fully, but he had no choice but to stay and take out a new loan for the next

African American women from the history has been discriminated and separated from white women. Talking about the racism in the United State, Collins says, “ life for African American women and men can be compared to being in prison” (pg. 115). Since the end of the Civil War era, African American communities have been geographically segregated from