Minority Populations

Through Sociology we learned that a minority group is a group whose member share a distinct physical and cultural characteristics. Minority groups are often the targets of prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice is defined as an irrational attitude towards certain people based solely on their membership in a particular group.Discrimination is the behavior, epically unequal treatment of people because they are members of a particular group. Everyone in this group belong to a minority in the united states. Each one of our minority groups has experienced prejudice and discrimination. All minorities have different struggles, but we all have the same

Charlie Pride did it in 1971. Darius Rucker did it in 2009. That’s it. Two black men, spanning thirty-eight years, are the only black artists to win a Country Music Association Award. With country music rooted in bluegrass and rhythm and blues, why aren’t there more black country music stars? When considering the roots of country music, and how closely related country is to blues, bluegrass and honky tonk music, an examination of what happened to all the black musicians seems warranted, no? This paper examines the dearth of black artists in country music and the careers of one of the few black artists who has had commercial success in this genre of music.

Austin’s melting pot of cultures give a warm country feel with that city charisma. Austin is the 11th largest city in the United States and the 2nd largest capitol (“Austin Population 2015”). The 2014 population of 865,504 was a 2.7% growth from the previous year (“City of Austin Population History”). The Austin-Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is composed of five counties (Bastrop County, Caldwell County, Hays County, Travis County, and Williamson County) with an estimated population of 1.9 million people in the combined counties in 2014 (“Austin Population 2015”). The City of Austin is 47.1% white, 36.5% Hispanic, 7.0% African American, 6.8% Asian, and 2.6% other ("Age Structure by Race and Ethnicity, City of Austin, 2014 Estimates."). What is interesting, however, is that according to a 2014 University of Texas at Austin study, although Austin has been consistently ranked one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, the city is losing its black community. Austin has experienced a decline in African American Americans at -5.4% and a total population growth of 20.4% (Tang and Chunhui,

In 2002, the latest year for which statistics are available, there were 170,241 African Americans enrolled in degree-granting graduate schools. This was an all-time high. Blacks were 8.4 percent of the total enrollments in U.S. graduate schools

Vulnerable populations are defined as “groups of people who are at a greater risk of developing health problems due to factors such as limited resources, poverty, socio-economic status, limited education, mental illnesses, prison time, age, gender, and homelessness” (Garcel 2015). There are three main financers of healthcare for vulnerable populations which include, the federal government, state governments, and private sources. Federal healthcare payment programs include Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP). These programs are managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS). Each of these programs have their own set of eligibility requirements.

There is data collected from the Richmond Police Department throughout this article proving Blacks and minorities to be ticketed more often than Whites. “Overall, female officers stopped 104 minority drivers and 71 Whites drivers, yielding a minority-to-White stop ratio of 1:46:1. In contrast, the minority-to-White stop ratio among male officers was significantly higher at 2:17:1 (1,710 minority drivers stopped vs. 788 Whites)” (Petrocelli, Smith 14). There are many tables throughout the article showing the difference between White and minority stops. One thing that was interesting on Table 4 of page 16, was that the consent for a car search was much greater among minorities, at 70 people, compared to Whites, at 42 people, and that the incident

Over the past few years, cities around the United States have increasingly been touting the vigor of their music industries. These cities have been commissioning reports that show the undeniable importance of music and the music industry to the local economy and urban centre. Chicago is no exception; Chicago measured the size of the music industry in their city and applied the same economic metrics to other cities across the country in order to obtain comparative stats about other music cities.

I attended a blues concert in Hayward and it was one of the most culturing experiences of my life. I learned a lot about the culture and context surrounding the blues music. I found the lyrics thought provoking especially, B.B. King’s “Why I Sing the Blues” sung by Billy Dunn. Prior to me attending this concert I hardly knew anything about the blues music or historical roots. I never listened to the blues before, so I am unaware of this type of music, but I learned a lot about this style of music and enjoyed it. I also learned about the impact Hayward had on the blues and blues musicians when African Americans migrated from the deep south to the then unincorporated area of Hayward, known as Russell city. Ethnically, the majority of the attendees were African American, the second highest ethnic group attendees were Caucasian. This makes sense, since the blues and jazz were developed in the south of the U.S. and is associated with Africans. For African Americans, the blues and jazz goes a long way back in history, more specifically their history. It is associated with African American history in America, as well as African oppression and liberation.

Their entrance into America created challenges for them. They were disregarded and perceive as blacks. “Irish immigrants found themselves compared to blacks. They were stereotyped as “a race of savages” (Takaki 141). They consider themselves “slaves for the Americans”. As both groups experienced rejection, Irish immigrants and African Americans had to scorn each other to find their place in American society.

As with many things pertaining to mental health and minorities, there is substantial lack information on how Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) is specifically relevant to minority populations. Often signs or symptoms of this disorder are overlooked or misdiagnosed due in part to varying emphases on the role of parent/child interactions in different cultures and ethnicities. It is known that regardless of upbringing, “an infant’s motivation and behavior are thought to be primarily instinctual and unconscious, early experiences provide the framework for what will become the unconscious mind in adulthood” (Hardy, 2007, p. 29).

The wondrous city of Nashville in Tennessee might come off as quite intimidating especially if you’re not oriented with what the word ‘country’ means. Despite its reputation of being a city highly leaning on the usual cowboy-in-boots personas, Nashville is truly more about the yearly rodeo shows and Sunday barbecue gatherings. Now that it’s being more and more known in the field of travel and tourism, Nashville is showing how promising it could be by highlighting its other side screaming of culture rich canopies and energetic aura all throughout. Music also plays a humongous part of the city and expect to hear nothing but sweet tones and charming melodies in even the littlest corner.

Student: Tran Thi Thanh Tam Class: E11 Topic: Are Vietnamese Americans the model minority? In reality, Asian Americans are popularly seen as the model minority. However, the question whether Vietnamese Americans are really the model minority is still a long-standing controversy.

In the final two chapters of Blues Chicago, the author focuses on the significance of place branding and ethnic and cultural tourism as it relates to the commodification of Chicago blues and its accompanying subculture. The author explains how the “city government, local boosters and cultural authorities” are capitalizing on the global allure of the blues as a catalyst to stimulate economic growth. However, he neglects to produce a closer analysis of the cultural voyeurs seeking the Chicago blues experience and how the ways in which they travel and their geographic imaginary shape how they engage with and commodify the culture.

By the 1920s Los Angeles was booming in Latin music with recording and live performances by Latino artists from the Southwest, New York and the Caribbean. The styles of music that they had in LA we're Banda rap, Chicano Rock, Corrido, Latin jazz, Latin Rock. The vigorous R&B, rock and roll, punk and hip-hop scenes of L.A.’s Chicano Eastside have helped shape American popular music, even as the constant infusion of immigrant laborers from Mexico and Central America continue to provide new musical ideas and identities. Almost half of Los Angeles County’s 9 million residents are

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, popular music and culture became significant influences on the lives of many individuals within the city of Los Angeles. East Los Angeles (“East L.A.” or “the Eastside”), in particular, was a center of flourishing musical, cultural, and social scenes with strong connections to the changing Chicano/a identity. Under this environment in which the Chicano movement (moviemiento) continued to prevail, a large number of socially aware and politically active, Latin-fusion “Chicano” bands were developed. One of such was the Ozomatli band, who strived to express their activist viewpoints through popular music. The spatial context of the band’s emergence, their links to past musical movements, and their implementation of a wide array of musical styles and genres all define their impact on Chicano identity in Los Angeles. Through their music, the Ozomatli band has showed much about the importance of the changing Chicano culture and served as the framework for cultural and social dynamics of present-day Los Angeles.