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Second World War and Japanese Internment in the US

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

Values in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages this research paper examines the changing of American values as represented in Fitzgerald's novel with Tom Buchanan ...

Racism in Contemporary America

lives of two young people, an Asian American, Seung-Hui Cho, and Kekoa, a Native Hawaiian. Both of these young men faced pervasive...

Martin Luther King Jr.: Helping the White as Well as Black

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray

doctorate there in 1965 (Pauli Murray). Among other positions, Murray was a civil rights lawyer, "a professor, a college vice pres...

Racism and African Americans

inequity was often used by White Southerners as support for pro-slavery arguments (Jackson 2). Affirmative action was created in...

Doomed Native America

In five pages this paper examines how the relationship between Native Americans and Europeans was doomed from the beginning in a c...

Books on America's Racism Problems

In five pages this paper examines racism in America as it pertains to the Native Americans and the Japanese during the Second Worl...

American Social Violence, Racism, Sexism, the Vietnam War, and Stanley Kubrick's Film Full Metal Jacket

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

The Unpopular Affirmative Action

In this paper consisting of four pages it is argued that cultural racism deeply embedded in American society required the necessit...

U.S. Society and Race Relations

In five pages this paper examines 2 racism models and considers how race relations are featured in James W. Loewen's Lies My Teach...

The 1965 Immigration Act and Asian Americans

In five pages the effects of this law's passage in terms of the skyrocketing number of Asian immigrants that moved to the United S...

North American Asian Indian Temples or Churches

in the existence of Brahma or "the supreme world soul or spirit" (Ramisetty-Mikler, 1993, p. 36). The older generation incorporat...

An Article Analysis of 'Asian-Americans Note Issues Central to Them for Elections'

In three pages an article that appeared in the February 13, 2004 edition of the New York Times is analyzed....

Mental Health Services and Limited Use by Asian Americans

that the theory which best describes the underlying expected relationships among variables is related to the stratification hypot...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

A Neutral Look at the Battle at Little Big Horn

This six page report analyzes this historical masacre from an objective perspective. The author carefully interweaves the perspec...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

The Boston Tea Party

legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn on the Revolutionary War

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

Children and Racism's Effects

In eight pages this research paper assesses the impact of racism on children and discusses such topics as conventional teaching ap...

A Plea for a Native American Alliance

us have done so and we have witnessed the strength of the alliance. Consider, for example, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and Potiacs ...

Community Business, City Government, and Racism's Effects

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how racism affects city governments and community businesses in terms of the media and makin...

American Federalism According to Paul E. Peterson and Thomas R. Dye

This paper contrasts and compares American federalism perspectives featured in Paul E. Peterson's The Price of Federalism and Thom...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

American Society and Racism

in his introduction, "One of the paradoxes of a culture of fear is that serious problems remain widely ignored even though they gi...