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Our Kind of People Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham

and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with privilege and power. Previously known for his provocative New Y...

1941 through 1951 America's Changing Decade A Decade of Change

and done, there were good feelings in the United States. The fifties would soon erupt with its newfound innocence and vigor. Kore...

America's Marine Archaeology

In ten pages this report examines marine archaeology within the context of America in a consideration of its development. Eight s...

America's Dominican Community in New York

New York's Dominican immigrant community is examined in five pages....

Elian Gonzalez and America's Immigration Policy

This paper examines the immigration policy of the United States in a discussion of the incident involving one of the Cuban boat pe...

Crash, A Central Theme

Graham is having an affair with his partner, Ria, who is of Latin American descent; however, Graham cannot seem to remember that ...

B.T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

Sexism and Racism in Trading Places

brash prostitute that flaunts her body and acts like a tough hooker. She is representative of women who sell their body and are al...

Alice McIntyre/White Talk

rationalize their own behavior. It is talk that serves to "insulate white people from examining their/our individual and collectiv...

Social Issues in Education

and in the end, they will be accepted to prestigious universities that are much less accessible to the poor or middle class. This ...

Hurricane Katrina: What Really Went Wrong?

could have packed a bigger wallop and even if the levees did not break, the people would have been devastated, but that did not ha...

Analysis of "Are Prisons Obsolete?"

10). The fact is that we do indeed lock away two million American citizens and in so doing have come to be the...

The Plight of African Americans in the United States

people..." (p.88). It is an idea that makes sense. There are differences of opinion between people and a hatred festers. Similar t...

Jack London’s Call of the Wild

was apparently controversial at the time, but clearly desired. One critic, in looking back at the time wrote, in 1928, "that a hea...

UNINTENTIONAL RACISM

Stuart Taylor Jr. (2006) points out in a commentary that law firms are trying to embrace diversity by using "large" hiring prefere...

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...

Diversity of Racism in the Workplace

and dynamics" should be openly discussed (Constantine and Sue, 2007, p. 142). The "general purpose of this study was to explore ...

Racism in the United States

using it to divide and to confuse the people about the reasons for the economic and social crisis of the system. Because the syste...

bell hooks “Bone Black”

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

Microsoft and Racism

ability of races that are not white. It indicates that the nation is geared towards white people and the way they may think, thus ...

Discrimination in Canadian Employment: An Outline of the Problem and Possible Solutions

in combating this lingering, problematic situation. It is not as if there were never any fights in Canada. There were. However, t...

Racism in The Bluest Eye

read. Morrison presents these excerpts, and the distorted excerpts, to illustrate a nation that has long held racism out for all t...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Intentional vs. Unintentional Racism

The participant group consists of well-educated middle-aged women ranging economically from working poor to upper middle class. A...

America and Justice

justice has been entrenched in three areas which are offender accountability, victim restoration, and the reintegration of the of...

Heath Care Discrimination

people with disabilities would get the best of care. However, the reality is that many elderly people who have disabilities find t...

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...

Racism Within American Culture

to secure benefits for themselves "at the expense of African slaves and their American-born descendants" (Clark, 2003). Whites hav...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Racism

with which Twain was quite familiar. There appears to be no individual he likely knew as Huck Finn, but perhaps, as a writer, Tw...

Racism in Othello

seem that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, the man that Othello favored for promotion over Iago. Convinced that Desdemon...