...Introduction In analysis of diversity in my community, the race relations are moderate and tolerable in my neighborhood with exceptions. In recent years diversity has expanded to increase the importance and acceptability in non-controlled environments that allows personal growth in race relations within communities. The fundamentals of exposing oneself to the particulars of race challenges provide an interesting investigation to how current experiences are now different than ten years ago. The review of my neighborhood proves the notion on how promising diversity has changed the local community. Perspectives in Race in the Community Currently living in the suburbs, the neighborhood has a 2 to 1 ratio, in which, the majority is the minority race in the community. In my immediate neighborhood, the experience with my fellow neighbors are a welcoming aspect due to the flexibility of tolerance. The diversified demographics within my community are races from different ethnicity not just black and white but Latinos, Mexicans, Jamaicans, and Japanese. The perspective in my community provides an understanding how diversity enriches the awareness of other cultural lifestyles within the context of interaction with different ethnic groups. Do members of your community look like you? In what ways do they look the same or different? The members in my community are welcoming and thoughtful by projecting respectfulness in sharing the same amenities in the neighborhood without conflict...
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...Final Project: Race and Your Community Ebony Brown ETH-125 March 11, 2012 Joanna Binsfeld Final Project: Race and Your Community It is a beautiful sunny yet breezy afternoon as I sit on my patio and watch my children play on the swing and sliding board play-set in my perfectly landscaped backyard. I love watching them play in the safe comfort of our quiet neighborhood without a care in the world and I remember how blessed I am to offer this comfort to them. I can not help but be grateful that I am able to raise my children in a safe environment where their mixed background is accepted and not frowned upon. I think back to my own childhood and how I stood out and was immediately classified as different in the “hood” of South Jamaica Queens of mostly low income black families, with my brown skin, curly dark hair and hazel eyes. I openly embrace the comfort of my small community in Winslow Township; New Jersey where the racial make up consists of Whites, African American, Native American, Asians and Hispanics. Race is not focused on as much in my community as it was in the community I was raised in and that makes a big difference to the way my children will feel about themselves growing up on this community. Race has always been an issue for me growing up although I grew up in a community where at first glance you would think I fit in with everyone else, but a closer look at my siblings and I told the other kids we were different. Our skin colors were all shades of black...
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...slavery and where it has leaded us to today. In this research paper I will write in a first- person account on how human interactions in your community have been radicalized. For my community, I will consider relations within the neighborhood, local government, service groups, clubs, schools, workplace, or any environment of which I am a part of. According to Richard T. Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups (2006), The African Americans presence in the United States began almost simultaneously with permanent White settlement. Unlike most Europeans, however, the African people were brought involuntarily and in bondage. The end of slavery heralded new political rights during reconstruction, but this was short-lived era of dignity. Despite advocacy of nonviolence by leads such as the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights civil rights movement met violent resistance throughout the South. In the mid-1960s, the nation’s attention was diverted to urban violence in the North and the West. Blacks responded to their relative deprivation and rising expectations by advocating Black Power, which in turn met with White resistance. While African Americans have made significant gains, the gap between Blacks and Whites remains remarkably unchanged in the last half century. Religion was and continues to be a major force in the African American community. (Richard T. Schaefer., 2006). The A&E Television Networks (1996-2011) website states, “Slavery in America began when the first African...
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...Race and My Community By: Silvana Bafumi June 19, 2010 I was raised in a small community in Kansas where everyone got along regardless of the race or ethnic background, but groups were segregated as far as houses and neighborhoods within the community. There was not any hate crimes against any particular groups or anything like that, it was just the way of life people was use to living. So growing up as a child I learned to love people for them and not for their ethnic background. As I moved to a small community in Southwestern Pennsylvania in the year 1989, I was use to having friends of different races. As my I proceeded to make new friends in my new community and school, I had friends that was African American. Well needless to say I was in many physical confrontations with others, was called names and threatened just for being friends with others that are not like me or the other White Americans in my community. As my family as well as I believes that everyone on this earth is equal and no one should be treated any different, we moved to the community I reside into today and still remain friends with the people I choose to be friends with. The majority of the members in my community look like me, as the majorities are white hard working average citizens. There are a few members of the community that are different as there is a variety of African Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, they ways they are different are; they have darker skin complexion...
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...Race and My Community Lakeysha Talley ETH 125 February 13, 2011 Maudine Johnson Race and My Community Although economic status does not indicate the measure of a person’s heart and people tend to express themselves in a politically correct manner versus their true feelings, income levels penetrate racial and ethnic divides by allowing a variety of people to cohabitate and learn about each other this does not however equate to equality. The members of my community vary in ethnicity and races. In any given day I can go for a walk and see Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Black, and White people. I can recall always thinking that my prior hometown of New York City was a melting pot and although it was home to many ethnic groups and races. There was a definite lack of melting because most groups lived quite segregated. I can remember thinking to myself when I moved south to North Carolina that I would likely encounter racism. My time of eight years spent here has rendered those thoughts to be true. I am older and wise enough to know that the location of a person bears no weight in the content of his or her character. In my apartment building there are people who look like me as well as people who do not. The population of Raleigh as of 2010 was 394,744 and the majority of the people are White at 61.8%, Black or African American at 29.6%, American Indian and Alaskan Native at 06%, Asian at 3.9%, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander N/A, Some other race...
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...Race and My Community Ethnic and racial issues continue to exist in many communities today. Before I took this class, I thought that race and ethnicity meant the same thing. After reading chapter one of the required text book for this course, I found out that they have very different meanings. I believe that, as a minority, no matter where you move to or what town you decide to make your home, whether it is temporary or permanent, you will encounter some form of ethnic and racial issues. The meaning of ethnicity is a group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns. On the other hand, race is described as a group that is socially set apart because of obvious physical differences. As an African American, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, in an all-Black neighborhood, and lived there until around my mid 40’s. I moved to the South Suburbs of Chicago, first to Harvey, and lived there for about four years before moving to where I now currently reside in South Holland. I lived in Harvey, Illinois, for about three years. It is a town dominated mainly by African Americans. According to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau statistics, Harvey, Illinois, is home to 75.8% African Americans and 19.0% Hispanics. The White population of Harvey is only 10.0% (State and County Quick Facts, 2010). There is a lot of crime that goes on in Harvey within the African-American neighbordhoods, and I believe that it is partly due to the environment...
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...Race in My Community ETH-125 December 4, 2011 Mamie Tapp Race in My Community The city of Columbia, South Carolina seems to be diverse enough like any other metropolitan area in the Unites States. From the outside looking in you may think that the cultural diversity in this city is leveled, fair and consistent; nevertheless there are several political, financial and racial factors that display a different truth. Anyone with little knowledge of this city perhaps will think that fairness in the marketplace and job sites is impartial; clearly that is the apparent view. Some racial issues for my thesis are connection with problems among Hispanics, Whites and Black Americans. The infrastructure of the city is evidently diversified among these three races; they each display their interest in the community in a very particular way. The representation of willful racial segregation is evident among those groups, and sometimes to the extent where hate and racial crimes are committed. From the financial perspective, the city is mostly influenced and control by the white population, Black Americans are the secondary driving factors with little influence by the Hispanic community and other minorities such as Asian Americans and Middle East descent citizens. During the months that I have lived in Columbia I have noticed that the majority of the citizens do not look like me. Growing up I was part of a largely Hispanic community in Miami, FL and the influence of Hispanics...
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...Race and Your Community Race and Your Community I am a first generation Japanese American living in Honolulu, Hawaii. My father moved to Honolulu in 1969, at a request of his company’s boss in order to oversee the trading operations of their American branch in Hawaii. My family liked Hawaii so much that they decided to relocate permanently. I was born two years later, in 1971. My parents initially thought that they were eventually going to return to Tokyo (office headquarters located there) that they insisted I get educated in Japanese, so that I can fit in with my peers upon their return. That never materialized, and after attending the private Japanese elementary school I moved to American high school. It is in high school that I started socializing and feeling more as an American, since at home I was only allowed to speak Japanese. In our class about 70% of students were Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders. According to the US Census “[e]thnic minorities account for 75 percent of Hawaii's population. Asians make up 55 percent, the largest percentage in the nation. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are 21 percent of the state's population” (Star-Bulletin, 2008). Based on such numbers, it is not a surprise that the majority of students were non-white. About 20% of students in my class are also third or fourth generation Japanese, who cannot speak a word of the language. Apparently their parents cannot speak it either. I was envy in the class, because...
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...When I think of the term race, the first thing that comes to mind is skin color. As young children, we are taught that race is solely related to color because it is easier to explain. We are often classified by race. Even though we may be of different nationality, we are classified by the color of our skin (e.g. black, white, red, etc.). As a child growing up, people of the same race generally lived in the same community. What defines a community? Webster defines a community as a group of people with common characteristics or interest living together within a larger society (Merriam-Webster, 2010). The common characteristic in this case was race. As a child, I did not know anything about the importance and affect that race played in the state and city I lived in. This paper will provide an overview of my experiences within my community and focus on ethnicity and the way race and ethnicity has shaped my personal life view and a few of the problems that it faced when it comes to race relations. The community that I belong to or associate with would be the African American community. I am an African American black female and I reside in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta has a population around 61% African American, 33% Caucasian American and 6% other nationalities (Census, 2009). However, the entire state of Georgia has a population around 28% African American, 65% Caucasian American and 7% other nationalities (Census, 2009). Atlanta was one of the major cities that played...
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...Race and My Community This paper is about the different races in my community. How the races treat one another being leaders, business owners and people of the community. Most communities are made up of different races and this paper will tell you about my community. I have lived in my community for twenty- four years and it is a small community, where everyone that lives in the community knows one another personally or socially. Some people look like me which I am White American. Also, some people are different and they are African American, Hispanic American, Native American and Asian American. In my community there is White American, African American, Native American and Asian American owned businesses, also the leaders of my community are made up of different races. The leaders of my community treat people who are like me the same as the other people who are different. I have not experienced or read of any of the leaders discriminating against anyone in the community. The people of my community are friendly to everyone in the community; it is a very close community. When people see each other in town they are always polite. But in the past there seemed have been crimes against African Americans. According to an article in the newspaper while researching for any racial incidents in my community, I found out apparently in nineteen hundred and forty-six there was four African American sharecropper’s that were lynched at the Moore’s Ford bridge which is still unsolved (Milligan...
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...Race and My Community James Dutcher ETH 125 1/30/11 Andrea Solomon Minorities face trials and tribulations associated with being a minority in a country with a dominant white race. Being able to overcome these trials and tribulations makes them a stronger person, in my eyes. People do not understand what it is like growing up being an outsider to the dominant race. Everyone comes to the United States with an idea of having a better life; they do not know the adversity they are going to face until they get to the United States. Many people feel like the minorities are coming to the United States taking all the jobs from the citizens. If people would worry about how they are taking their job for granted instead of focusing on the people that are taking their jobs, they might be able to keep their jobs. The minorities are taking the jobs because they are willing to work harder. Can you blame the boss who is going to take the harder worker out of the two employees? Community leaders have a huge voice in my community. I can see where the difference in race and how they treat people. I hope they do not do it on purpose, but they do treat different races differently. The rich areas of town have nicer schools and have better education. Programs have been developed for kids who live in poverty stricken areas and problem neighborhoods. The Boys and Girls club has been introduced in my community in 1990 (Boys and Girls Club South Central Kansas, 2011). This year they just built a...
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...Race and Your Community Keisha Bullock ETH/125 July 3, 2011 Margie Molnar Race and Your Community African Americans in my community cannot go into Arab or White owned stores without being followed around. The owners are always under the assumption that they are going to steal from them. Most of the people that live in my community are African Americans. There are a few White Americans who recently moved into the community and they appear to have no problems with living around so many African Americans. The members of my community for the most part do look like me. We all have kinky hair with dark skin, and our children of African American Parents. Our facial features resemble each other with having a round or oval shape face. There are some people in my community whom we would consider to be mixed because one parent may be African American while the other is White American. The leaders in my community treat people like me with love and respect. The leaders in my community look like me and are trying to make things better in the community for the younger generation of kids so that they have parks and community centers to be able to go to and play without having to worry about being gun down by senseless gun fire of the street gangs. I have never heard of or seem the leaders in my community treat people differently because they are not African American. They try and give just as much to them as they would anyone else. My work manuals contains information about people...
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...Race and Your Community Robert Dillman ETH/125 March 8th, 2012 Sharon D. White, Ph.D. Race and Your Community There is very little racial diversity in my community. In my paper I will look at the demographics of not just the city itself, but the county in which I reside, as well as the businesses that are part of the community and the different races represented. I will explore my own personal experiences and that of a hate crime that has happened to this community. I will also include an interview with a community member involved in the community itself. I see our community as being one of a close nature. With little conflict between any certain ethnic groups, there seems to be great social cohesion within the residents of the community. The minorities that do reside here seem to blend into the community and feels little effects from racism or discrimination. My community is very small compared to many cities that surround us within a 250 mile radius. How secluded are we from the big city life? Our city only has a population of 31,894 (2010 US Census Bureau, Jan. 2012) and in the county has 39,265 (2010 US Census Bureau, Jan. 2012). I am including the Nez Perce County because it plays a big part of our community. Our community sees very little race ethnicity. Most of my community is made up of the same ethnicity as me, comprised of mostly Whites (90.1% of the population). Among the other races that inhabit the Nez Perce County are Native Americans (5.6%), Hispanic...
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...Race and My Community I am from the general area of Pittsburgh, more specifically Peters Township. The township however does not have that many historical events to make you want to deviate from any future road trips to come and visit. The only real “claim to fame” that our little town is that the Wright brothers were one of the first few people to settle the land (Peters Township History). Peters Township however is predominantly a “White Community”. With White being 96.2%, African American 0.5%, Asian 2.0%, etc. (Peters Census). Since Peters is nothing really to “write home about”, my paper will be more focused upon the Greater Pittsburgh Area. When I refer to Pittsburgh, I am usually talking about The Greater Pittsburgh area. Now in talking about Pittsburgh itself you will have to know some of Pittsburgh’s history. Pittsburgh has always had its “Issues”, mostly with pollution back in the days that the steel mills ran. Now days however, violent crimes are a much known issue if you are a citizen of the Pittsburgh Area. With the average year having around 3,370 violent crimes. The comparison being, there are an average of 10 violent crimes per 1,000 people in Pittsburgh, while Pennsylvania as a whole only has an average of 4 violent crimes per 1,000 people (Pittsburgh Crime Rates). This is 2.61x the national average. Why do I bring this up? It’s because Pittsburgh back in the prohibition era was known for being ran by the “Italian Underworld”. There were two major...
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...Race and Your Community Racism is an issue that people have to deal with on a daily basis. It is a topic that a lot of people do not like to address but something that we know exists. I have lived in Millbrook, Alabama, a city outside of Montgomery, Alabama for all of my life and since I can remember the racial relations have been fine. I am sure that everything is not 100 percent but we live in the same community with no problems. In this Cultural Diversity class, I learned that discrimination is not limited to just race. I learned that a person may experience discrimination because of their gender, their religion or even their choice of clothing, just to name a few. There are people in my community who look like me. I am an African American and there is a good representation of African Americans in Millbrook, Alabama. The majority race in my community is the Caucasian race and there are Hispanics represented in my community too. The Caucasian race looks different from me because of the color of their skin and the texture of their hair. The Hispanics in my community look different from me by the color of their skin, hair texture and the language that some of them speak. There is no one neighborhood that only has one race in it. There is some representation of all of the races in the majority of the neighborhoods. Although we are not the majority, we are not the minority. If you come to visit, you may be surprised at how well all the races do get along...
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