African-Americans and Hispanics make up most of the prison population in America. ... This could be the cause of why the American prison population is so populated with minority prisoners. ... In figure 1, it shows the statistics of race that is imprisoned per 100,000 people in the United States in 2010. ... African Americans make up most of the population in the jails today. ... Population (Hartman, "End Racial Discrimination"). ...

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The startling statistics behind the death penalty and death row inmates is a large factor in their argument. ... It will not only focus on the statistics amongst the races but also will discuss the average age, social status, and educational achievement of the people sentenced to die, the difference in the crimes that got them sentenced, and the small amount of women who have been faced with this court decision. ... According to www.coadp.org, an African American is four times more likely to be sentenced to die than a white man. ... The race of the defendants executed since 1973, the race of...

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The researcher also visited several websites in order to obtain up to date facts and statistics foretelling the current status of not only black males, but the entire African American ethnic group. ... Black males represented approximately 1.64% of the entire population of biological and life scientists in these select cities. ... These accurate facts in no way reflect the number of black males that live in the Unites States of America, which in the 1990's, has ranged from 6 to 9 percent of the total population. ... Also, based on the Census Bureau statistics, the absence of the black fa...

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The white population was vastly outnumbered by the blacks, but the whites were able to keep control of the countries' economy and politics. In 1978, South African blacks made up about eighty percent of the nation's population but only owned thirteen percent of the land and contained a share of under twenty percent of the national income. ... Board of Education supreme court ruling in 1957 which forced desegregation of American schools, there was much controversy over the extent that blacks should be allowed into white-American culture. ... The white Americans had alway...

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The total population of African American females was 6,581,000 and out of the total they focus on about 300,000 females, this was the approximation of how many females had 9 years or less education. ... This rate is 13.75% of the sum of all suicide rates for African-American females aged 25-54 (Fernquist 1996). ... Race specific suicide data was provided to the authors by the National Center for Health Statistics. ... The largest being the size of the black male population (Burr et al 1999). ... It only focused on race and suicide rates, finding that Hispanics complete suicide more frequentl...

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I used to hear some of my black friends talk about "how hard it is to be a black man in America." ... Kinloch, coined Missouri's first black city, was eventually comprised and controlled entirely by African-Americans (Wright). ... Racial isolation is often defined by a 90/10 rule representing that a block's population is made up of ninety percent like-raced residents and ten percent of another race. Thirty percent of black Americans live in all-black neighborhoods (Gillmor). ... Whether we like it or not we are a divided people, and yet we have the nerve to call ourselves the "Un...

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