...Racism “The dynamic and integrating power constitutes the principal frame of reference for all individual and collective experiences-has been preserved in recognizable form among the North American Diasporas.”[1] Racism still plagues the veins of America today. Whether it is positive or negative racism is to be decided. There are examples of positive racism such as: Affirmative action and following a role model of the same race. Traces of negative racism still exist within groups such as the KKK for example. Our group has mostly examined racism against African and African Americans. We believe the term “African”, in it self, is racist. Do you see anyone calling a white American, a European American? The answer is no. Why can’t we call the group labeled African Americans, Americans? When our group goes to a TCU football game, we cheer for the team as a whole. At TCU a black football player is called a football player. A white football player is also called a football player. If a sport as simple as football can get past discrimination of white and black, how come America cannot? People like Johnny Lee Clary, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela are great examples of attempts to over come black racism. Peter J. Paris makes many great points in his book Virtues and Values: the African and African American Experience. Paris uses leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. to empahsis that troughout the hard times, African virtues and values stood strong...
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...Topic: Racism Racism - Boundless Open Textbook. (2015, July 21). Retrieved February 07, 2016, from https://www.boundless.com/sociology/textbooks/boundless-sociology-textbook/race-and-ethnicity-10/race-79/racism-473-3288/ This website provides straightforward information on racism and how it applies to sociology. It discusses racism as a social fact and covers individual, structural, cultural, and historical racism. Racism is when discrimination occurs based solely on inherent traits in a racial group. This site is useful because it provides a foundation for information on racism and key term while giving you a general overview and helps you understand other resources better. I could see the control theory working with some of the content of this source, while it’s purely informational source it contains the fact the racism can be deliberate and that given the opportunity that people will have racist thoughts or actions eventually. One thing that is missing in this source is that it lacks clear examples on the outcomes of racism. It clearly defines it and shows the responses to racism like affirmative action but it fails to show any type of real world actions. This is related to sociology because of lists key points and facts about racism. Racism has a larger effect on the population and society. Eckholm, E. (2008, May 05). Racial Disparities Found to Persist as Drug Arrests Rise. Retrieved February 07, 2016, from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/us/05cnd-disparities...
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...writes about the struggles people face, racism and freedom. At age eight, Angelou went mute for five years when she believed that her words killed a man. These years of silence helped develop her extraordinary memory, love for books and literature, and her ability to listen and observe the world around her. At age fourteen, Angelou dropped out of high school to be San Francisco’s first African-American cable car conductor. Maya returned to school, but became pregnant and graduated a few weeks before giving birth to her son Guy. She left her home to raise her son as a single mother. During this time Angelou worked as a waitress, and a cook, to make a living for her and her son. When Martin Luther king Jr. was assassinated on her fortieth birthday, it left her devastated, but also determined to keep the civil rights movement going so everyone could have equality in the United States. The poem, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by the poet Maya Angelou, uses the following poetic devices: symbolism and lyric that give meaning to poem. The first poetic device that this poem shows is symbolism. Symbolism is when an author or poet uses a person, place, thing or an event to represent something else. An example of 3(1565443) symbolism from the poem would be “The caged bird sings with fearful trill of the things unknown but longed for still and is tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom” (Angelou lines:15-21)....
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...Racism is not a new phenomenon for human being, and people suffering from discrimination in the past for centuries. Racism and discrimination have had a significant role in defining the health of Aboriginal in particular young cohort in urban area. The definition of racism is “a global hierarchy of human superiority and inferiority, politically culturally and economically produced and reproduced for centuries by the institutions of the capitalist, modern/colonial world-system” (Grosfoguel, 2011) There is no doubt that racism could affect the community structure negatively. Recent studies suggest that people who had experienced ill treatment as a result of discrimination between color and race are at risk for physical and psychological diseases....
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...acceptance by founding massive Catholic congregations. For instance, although many nativists in the mid-nineteenth century characterized Irish immigrants as “undesirable” workers and “white niggers,” Catholic leaders of the 18,000-strong Irish community of Buffalo, New York popularized the Irish-American celebration of St. Patrick’s Day by uniting the community through the “social utility” of church toasts (Bodnar 70; Conzen 14, 21). Irish-Americans clearly faced physical stereotypes, ethnic discrimination, and few socio-economic opportunities. However, the group developed a festival of minimal importance in Ireland into a key demonstration of solidarity with both homeland and American traditions to counterbalance nativism. Irish-American community leaders developed “social capital” by educating thousands of community members in relatable causes, such as combatting poverty and supporting America, on St. Patrick’s...
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...of racist American citizens, causing an uproar by the public, furthering the issue even more. Page grew up in the fifties, when racism was unyielding and far too many innocent people faced discrimination and persecution. After that, racism was heavily lessened by much needed programs, such as Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court ruling on the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Since then, America has come leaps and bounds past the idea that one group of people can be less than another based off of skin pigmentation. However, while speaking about his son, Page fears that he will go from “someone who is perceived as cute and innocent into someone who is perceived as a menace, the most feared creature on America’s urban streets today, a young black male” (Page 336). The fact that some still feel this way is embarrassingly disheartening and I couldn’t agree less. Many older African Americans who have dealt with severe segregation firsthand, Page for instance, have a justified hatred and fear towards whites. These feelings often get passed down from generation to generation, keeping the tension, discrimination, and racism alive. Since racism is typically thought of as white people being racist to blacks, some may argue that black people cannot be racist since they are a minority. However, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, racism can be defined as “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce...
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...and Diversity Angie Kauffman Psych 535 September 7, 2013 Sociopolitical Factors and Diversity As society continues to diversify, both psychologists and therapists need to develop awareness for each client’s perspective, beliefs, and values. An individual’s perspective may differ from the perspective of his or her therapist. Thus, psychologists and therapists alike must develop an understanding of cultural diversity. Pederson and Locke (1999) stress the need for training in the culture-centered approach to gain, “accurate assessment, meaningful understanding, and appropriate intervention” (p. 11). A variety of factors can affect the understanding of a culturally diverse individual, such as homelessness, sexual harassment, and racism. Through an understanding of those three sociopolitical factors, psychologists and therapists can see the impact of these factors on psychological development, behavior, and distress. As a result, practices may be put in place to help minimize potentially harmful consequences. Homelessness Approximately two and a half million people are homeless and 30-50% of this group consists of families with children (Pedersen & Locke, 1999). According to Pederson and Locke (1999), homeless is defined if an individual meets one of the following criteria: • Inability to secure regular and stable housing • Primary residence is a public or private shelter • Occupying a place not designated for housing (p. 90). The homeless population accounts for...
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...Research Paper Racism and Immigration Rémi Drapeau Student ID: C3623 Mailbox # SH649 Work presented to Kimberly Cook, course professor Social Problems & Their Impact on the Workplace BA Organizational Management, OM3413 Degree Completion Program Crandall University April 12th, 2016 Introduction 5 What Is Racism and who does it affect? 6 Challenges in the labour market 8 Who are the Muslims in Canada? 10 Aboriginals in Canada 11 References 13 Introduction Racism, immigration and exclusion are topics that seem to go hand in hand. From what I have learnt in the past few weeks, they are all far more present than I had realized. We see it in schools, justice system, job market etc. In the next few pages I will explain how they correlate in Canada today. More specifically relating to aboriginals and Muslims. Canada is home to more than 200 ethnic groups, with 16% of its population (over five million individuals) identifying as a visible minority. Information from the Census showed that Canada’s visible minority population grew 27% from 2001 to 2006, five times faster than the population as a whole. The diversity of Canada’s population is expected to continue to increase over the next two decades. According to projections by Statistics Canada up to 14.4 million Canadians (or about one-third of the population) will be members of a visible minority by 2031. The religious composition of the country is also changing, with some of the largest...
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...UGS Essay #1 9/21/2015 “Whoever You Want to Be” “You are Asian, so go study,” “You are black, try that sport,” “Hey White, don’t be racist just go to parties,” “Hey Mexican, can you get some drugs for me?” This is the reality of society. We say racism is gone, but this is how we view each race and define each race. In fact, this is the reality of how each race of child is influenced and raised. Racism still exists not because we haven’t talked enough about it, but because we never try to change it. Likewise, born in a foreign country, I faced this unchangeable problem as an international student with different views. Also through these diverse experiences I came to frame my identity racially and personally throughout my life. “Hey, is racism harsh in America?” “How fast are black people? Do they actually carry guns?” These are questions that I was asked when I went back to Korea this summer. Unfortunately, Internet is a huge network nowadays and it affects everyone in the world. Those questions were not randomly asked, but because that is what people see in movies and news reports. Most racial stereotypes are framed according to what is in the media, the reason they are constructed. For example, recently there was a huge issue in Texas about a 14 year old Muslim genius boy who was arrested because his invention, a homemade clock, was assumed to be a bomb by the teacher. He was arrested and handcuffed because he was a Muslim. I doubt this would have happened if it were another...
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...we were colonials or immigrants. The concept has always been, “people of African descent have not been counted as part of America's migratory tradition. The transatlantic slave trade has created an enduring image of black men and women as transported commodities, and is usually considered the most defining element in the construction of the African Diaspora…” (Diouf, n.d., In all of the history classes taken never once was there addressed the question of whether or not African Americans come as colonials or immigrants. Interestingly enough, after extensive research there was more confusion that expected. The transatlantic slave trade is all that was generally taught, especially when I was in middle and high school which was over 40 years ago. Therefore, my initial response to this question was we were neither colonials nor immigrants, we were simply ‘property.’ Now, I’m not so sure. According to my research there were not less than thirteen migrations from Africa to America. In fact, “When Africans first came to the New World, they came of their own free will, and they arrived at virtually the same moment as the first Europeans…In the early 17th century, as the Age of Colonization began in earnest, Africans had begun to come to North America to stay” (Library of Congress, 2007). It was little...
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...Introduction With practices aimed at reducing discrimination such as affirmative action, the argument has been made that racial discrimination is no longer a pressing issue in American society.[1] It has further been argued that the Constitution protects all citizens, and race has no weight in the American criminal justice system.[2] While the United States Constitution guarantees equal treatment of all citizens, regardless of race, racism still exists in the American law enforcement and criminal justice systems. In this era with the end of official institutional racism, there has been a corresponding shift from de jure racism to a de facto racism where members of minority groups, especially African Americans, are subject to unequal protection of the laws and excessive in the American criminal justice system, particularly in drug law enforcement.[3] Drug law enforcement is far more discretionary than for other offenses. It is for the police to decide when and where they will seek to make drug arrests, and what priority they will place on enforcing drug laws.[4] Since the war on drugs began in the 1980s, two general trends have been identified. First, there has been a substantial increasing in the number of drug arrests overall; and second, black males have constituted an increasing proportion of these arrests.[5] Based on this evidence, it would be natural to assume that the number of arrests is proportional to the crime rate – that blacks began using drugs in...
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...Racism Kaplan University SS270: Social Problems May 4, 2013 Racism Nigger, Cracker, Wetback, Chink, Aye-Rab, Dink, Gringo, Coon, Oreo, Jungle Bunny, Kraut, Hillbilly, Honky, Jap, Sand Nigger, Uncle Tom, White Trash, Yellow, Towel Head and Beano; these are just some of the many names that people are called on a daily basis to belittle a person from a different ethnic background. Racism is something that has been around forever and there have been many attempts to stop it without total success. Although many people don’t agree with racism today there are still too many people that roam this earth that think it is okay to call someone a slang name in an offensive manner. What is the true definition behind racism? According to The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (n.d.) “The belief that some races are inherently superior (physically, intellectually, or culturally) to other and therefore have a right to dominate them. In the United States, racism, particularly by whites against blacks, has created profound racial tension and conflict in virtually all aspects of American society. Until the break through achieved by the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, which domination over blacks was institutionalized and supported in all branches and levels of government, by denying blacks their civil rights and opportunities to participate in political, economic, and social communities” (p.1). From an outsider, one may think that...
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...town’s citizens become pinned against one another when the Ku Klux KLan moves into town. The racism, anti semitism, sexism, and overall prejudice in this book shows just how destructive prejudice can really be. The racism in Witness can be seen throughout the entire book. The Sutters are the only black family in the town, and the KKK desperately wants them to leave and never return. At one point the Klan becomes so desperate that they convince 18 year old Merlin Van Tornhout to pour rat poison into the Sutter’s well, “in private harvey pettibone handed me rat poison from his store. pour it in the sutter’s well he said. but it’ll kill them! no,he said, though it will make them pretty sick.”(page 115) Although both Merlin and Harvey were unable to complete the task the klan’s prejudice against the Sutters because of their race was so destructive that it could have cost either Leanora or Wright their lives if they didn’t receive the proper treatment....
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...(2017, October 27). Addressing Russian Influence: What Can We Learn From U.S. Cold War Counter-Propaganda Efforts? Retrieved March 21, 2018, from https://www.lawfareblog.com/addressing-russian-influence-what-can-we-learn-us- cold-war-counter-propaganda-efforts Gates, R. (n.d.). US Intelligence and the End of the Cold War. Retrieved March 21, 2018, from https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/US_Intelligence_and_the_End_of_the_Cold_War Hedley, J. (2008, June 27). US Intelligence and the End of the Cold War. Retrieved March 21, 2018, from https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi- publications/csi-studies/studies/summer00/art02.html History.com Staff. (2010). Cuban Missile Crisis. Retrieved March 21, 2018, from https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis NIE 11-5-59. (n.d.). Retrieved March 21, 2018, from http://www.astronautix.com/data/5911nie.pdf Rollins, D. (n.d.). Ex-Soviet Agent Tells of Strengths, Weaknesses of CIA, KGB. Retrieved March 21, 2018, from https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90- 00552R000605740006-5.pdf Soviets put brutal end to Hungarian revolution. (n.d.). Retrieved March 21, 2018, from https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-put-brutal-end-to-hungarian-...
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...Race-based jury nullification is a practice that has been around for many years and occurs when jurors oppose to the law and refuse to convict a defendant despite significant proof that the individual is guilty. The 14th amendment guarantees all persons no matter race or sex are allowed due process and equal protection from the law. This paper will provide detailed information about whether ethnicity influences courtroom proceedings and judicial practices, there will be arguments for and against ethnicity-based jury nullification, contemporary examples of ethnicity-based jury nullification and it will conclude by choosing a position for or against ethnicity-based jury nullification. We have seen many examples of suspected jury nullification through the “Bronx Juries”. “This term originally described a jury consisting mostly of minorities in the Bronx, New York that refuses to convict minority defendants. Today, “Bronx juries” are not limited to the Bronx but extend to other cities with large minority populations, such as Baltimore, Maryland” (Keneally, 2010, pg. 946). Race should never be a deciding factor during jury deliberation. Jurors should follow the full extent of the law, and should not put their personal beliefs before there civic duty as a juror. When trying to decide whether or not ethnicity influences court room proceedings and judicial practices, the information was unable to provide definitive proof one way or the other. Some of the research that was found was...
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