Ethnic Issues

“The History, Development and Future of Ethnic Studies” by Evelyn Hu-DeHart mentions several issues young scholars faced during the time of need for multicultural curriculum in higher education. Young scholars were demanding to uncover the missing facts and accredited sources that American history, culture, and society have left out for centuries. The solution the students concluded in solving this dilemma was to bring attention to the need of ethnic studies programs. With enough support from the student body and willingness of universities, institutions were able to recruit professors and thus create ethnic studies programs. According to Hu-DeHart, by providing ethnic studies programs and departments, the academic field would provide, “…a

Throughout history, racial conflict and segregation have impacted African Americans in many ways. The end of the civil war led to African Americans gaining their freedom. Unfortunately, racial conflict and discrimination continued long after the Civil War. What was the difference in treatment between the South and West in regards to racial conflict and segregation? People in the South were firm believers in African Americans having little to no freedom. Many efforts were made to fight racial conflict and discrimination. Looking at racial conflict, let’s compare and contrast the South versus the North’s treatment of African Americans.

There are five themes that persist throughout American history. The five themes are mission, manifest destiny, industrialization, imperialism, and race. Racism has been an issue throughout American history. Only in recent years has the problem been resolved, but even now there is still some issues. Some private groups are still against some races.

Upon entering the class I was anxious, curious, and also oblivious to the ideas I would be encountering. Like other students who had not previously spent time discussing topics of race and ethnicity, I myself had nervous tendencies in assuming that such a class may not strengthen my understanding of ethnic and race relations. I realized I knew little about race or ethnicity, and even the possible similarities or differences. However, I welcomed the opportunity to further discover the possibilities of the class. My understanding of race was concentrated in a definition that could be understood as different skin colors. My limited conception of ethnicity applied to people’s origin or where they lived. It seemed as though my lack of

Ethnic and racism discrimination in the United States of America has been a major problem since the thirteen colonies created and the slave era. The leaders of the colonies wanted to build a country that represent all the people who are living in it without giving control to big powers that can decrease the representation of the people. They placed laws in making the American constitution that protect all the people of America. However, these amendments were mostly protecting the White Americans which not approved to Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latin Americans, and African Americans. Laws and amendments kept being added to the constitution so that the rights of every person who lives in the United States remains protected, and one of the most important amendments of the constitution is the fourteenth amendment, which freed the slaves and gave human equality and rights for all races in the US. Thus, African American still suffer the most today when a young white male shoot and killed nine African Americans in church in Charleston South Carolina (Schaller). My research paper will consist of subjects whom they are related to race discrimination and what happened lately in Charleston church and who was behind this massacre and what was his motive to do such thing. For my research paper I will argue about the South Carolina’s racist history and how the history influences some young males and turn them into racisms (Schaller). Also, I will discuss how flags play a huge rule

The issue, Racism and segregation in sports. The answer, Jackie Robinison. “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives,” a quote by Jackie Robinson. Jack Roosevelt Robinson, born on January 31st, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. His mother Mallie and his father Jerry were sharecroppers at the time and lived on a plantation. Jerry Robinson made just about $12 dollars a month which was not enough to support a total of five children. Jerry went to his boss and was allowed the opportunity to become a half-cropper which means that he gains profit off of the produce. This allowed him to gain a higher income and therefore provide for his family. Six months after Jackie’s birth, his father went to go visit his brother in Texas and never returned. They soon found out that Jerry had actually ran away with the neighbors wife. To this day Jackie has no idea what became of his father but could only look at him with disdain because he asked himself what type of man would leave his wife and 5 kids to fend for themselves in such an oppressive time period? Jackie and his family then moved to Pasadena, Ca. When his family moved, Jackie’s mother, with help from her niece, moved into a white neighborhood. Manfred Weidhorn noted in his biography, Jackie Robinson, "Jackie was proud of his mother, who would not allow the white neighbors to drive her away or frighten her or mistreat her kids. From her he learned to stand up for his rights. He learned to respect himself, demand

Race has no biological meaning. There is only one human race; there are no subspecies, no single defining characteristic, traits, or even gene, separates one “race” from another. Instead of being a biological concept, race is a social construct, and a relatively modern one at that. It was created to give light-skinned Europeans an advantage by making the white race superior and all others inferior. Throughout its history, the concept of race has served this purpose well.

"Chapman didn’t think taking a knee during the national anthem meant a black football player was a “son of a bitch,” that he didn’t want any part of the hideous racial divisiveness that Trump was instigating.

(1) bring in as many topical inquires as possible, (2) discuss the interlinkages between those topical inquires with your interpretations and critical analyses, and (3) base your answer on illustrative ethnographic studies and empirical examples.

Many believe that the United States doesn’t have a racial divide, but there are facts and statistics that prove otherwise. For instance, there is the divide within education that states that African Americans are twice as likely as whites not to finish high school. Not only in academics are they divided but also in disciplinary within the school in where it shows that black students are suspended or expelled roughly three times more than their white companions. Statistics show that 21% of white students end up completing a college degree, while only 13% of blacks complete the same goal, leading to the next issue being wealth. Whereas even if they both obtain the same college degree the payoff is nowhere near the same. For example a white family

Most people do not realize their true ethnicity. Many assumptions and biases about culture are made by people who do not realize that it’s impossible for one to purely fall under one nationality. Most do not realize that as much as there may be reasons to hate one another, there are also reasons not to hate.

I was originally born and raised in Leningrad, Russia. Russia was and still is one of the most racially divided countries I know of, mainly because there are not that many African American people that reside there. When I moved to United States, I had to make a tremendous adjustment of how I looked at the world and other people; primarily people of other races and cultures. I never considered myself racist nor the type of person who would protest against such event. I understand that there are right and freedom of speech, but there other ways you could express yourself. I like

Ethnic segregation is “The extent to which members of different of racial and ethnic groups are isolated within their own communities and have limited social interactions across these internal borders can be inferred from a segregation or dissimilarity index.” (The University of Arizona). Ethnic segregation is more common on college and university campuses than most other places in the world. Segregation is not a new topic to be talking about because when we look back into the early 1900’s we can easily see that segregation was inhibited among most everything you do once you step outside your house, the whites and colored weren’t allowed to do anything together. An article by Alana Semuel talks about how segregation had to be invented and a man in the article said, “People who are white want as little to do with black people as they can get away with”, these kinds of actions and types of separation caused extreme barriers or invisible lines/walls that are rarely crossed by people in our society today. These barriers produce the loss of uniqueness and talent among both groups of people, as well as individuals. I strongly believe differences and diversity should be celebrated as a chance or opportunity to be able to stand out as well as the chance to educate each other about the creation of man and woman. A document by the History Channel gives information on the reason America had almost split apart during the Civil War by telling us how the victory of the Union may have possibly given freedom to people of color, but with the “restrictive “black codes” to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans.”, but since then reformation and hard work have been the reason this country has stayed as one.

Hello Ilia great report. There is a common ground, and challenging issues as well; because it is the same topic of discussion, a consensus can be attained. In comparison to the issue the common ground is that we both believe that ethnic issues must be made clearer; it would be simpler for officials and citizens to discuss relevant issues within society. With the current situation, the ethnic issues becomes more challenging for citizens to pose useful questions to officials to discuss a lot of the ethic concerns. In my point of view if officials blended federal and state laws concerning ethnic issues such that ethnic citizens felt considered in the construction of ammendments. The general idea is that we both believed that if the ethnic issues

Many circumstances oblige people to move from their native country to a foreign one. From this movement of migration have emerged many ethnic groups. An ethnic group is a restraint number of persons living in a larger society and sharing the same distinct cultural heritage. Some people tend to bury their habits and accommodate to the new way of life. However others hold on to their identity and try to identify their race and maintain it. This enriches societies and makes them multi-racial. Therefore, every ethnic group is essential to complete the mosaic. Although they are sometimes threatened, minorities must fight to preserve their principles. Why must they fight? Because racial identification has many positive impacts on the members.