There's a dark history behind America's achievement, but many American left it out of their history. ... In contrast, there's a book named A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki that tells America's history in a unique voice, from a minority side. ... I'm quite surprised that the idea has been with us since the early time. I thought the idea started with the early settlers. ... In his book, A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America, we seem to think that America is full of white people and they're the majorities. ...

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Racism Throughout history, prejudice and racism have played an important part. They have been the cause of most of the negative events in American history. ... The early Americans also acted on their hatred. Anglo- Saxons were the dominant group in early America, and they often looked down upon "other- people "that is, anyone who was different from them in any way. "Throughout out history many Americans looked upon outsiders as strange, inferior, or potentially disloyal."" ...

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America has a unique history and heritage. Our unique history and heritage came about through the ideas and culture of the many immigrants who came to this country. ... This is probably the main reason why people came to America. ... The seeds of capitalism sprang from those early settlers and continues today. ... America has a very distinct and unique heritage. ...

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One of are biggest freedom fighters in our history, Abraham Lincoln, had thoughts that freedom should be granted to people of color. ... People of color weren"t the only people in past history to live through slavery or persecution. In fact the people who lived in America first were treated like slaves and savages. ... Starting in the early 1500's immigrants and travelers from Spain sailed to America to claim the land. ... (Poole 1542: 8) These words are very strong and can only make people imagine what the native Indians had to go through as America was raped. ...

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(1-21, w&w) CHAPTER 2 The first line in the poem ("you may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies") refers to the way that attitudes towards African-Americans have been embedded within our nation's history. ... Neither History nor the law was kind to African-American slaves (the 1640 John Punch ruling exemplified the inconsistencies of the time [2-36, W&W]). ... "Out of the huts of history's shame I rise" The "huts of history's shame" in stanza eight also makes an allusion to the oppression that African-American women faced. ... Maya Angelou is ...

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(Selected Poems 291 lines 21-26) The poem goes on to describe the early stages of our country's development from the Pilgrims to Jefferson and Lincoln, though African Americans were slaves during that point in time, they new that freedom would come to them as long as they were patient. As the poems continues to acts almost like a miniature history book written from the slaves point of view. ... The second half of "Freedom's Plow" focuses on thoughts and ideals rather than actual events in American history. ... "Who is America? ... We are America! ...

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We hear people call themselves African American, German American, Asian American, and any number of other country slash American. ... Many colored people call themselves African American. ... We have the term in America called the Great Melting Pot, it's meaning that race and ethnicity in America all runs together. I think that because of this philosophy and its dominance in the early Twentieth century it caused many ethnic people to separate from there heritage. Now that people are looking back into their family history they are finding out things that do not seem right, at least by ...

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Before his tragic death, he spoke one of the most important speeches in history, the I Have a Dream speech. ... African Americans were also brutally treated with inequality. ... Martin Luther King starts off his speech he says, "I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.... "My first victim was a woman – white, well dressed, probably in her early twentiesshe picked up her pace and was soon running in earnest. ... African Americans, men and women, struggled t...

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A very important element in American culture today is sports, especially amongst blacks. The struggle for blacks to participate in sports was a difficult encounter in the earlier 1900's. However, due to various black leaders, such as Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson, they have open many doors for African Americans. ... Throughout my paper I will focus on two major sports that African Americans made a impact on. ... I hope to give a better understanding about the important role that black athletes played on breaking down racial barriers and changing American history....

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Julia (by well Julia) When we learn about history (American, world or otherwise), we consume it as life changing events that shape the world we live in today. The history of television is no different. When studying the history of African- American television, I look with a prideful eye on the hit sitcom, Julia. ... King was assassinated, the U.S. was in the latter part of the Vietnam War, and African Americans were fighting a war of their own for civil rights all history stuff, all stuff that has affected the world today. ... Julia lasted until 1971, which is good for any sitcom, let...

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Did Racial Segregation Improve the Status of African Americans? ... Rabinowitz, who is a professor of history, believes that segregation did help blacks. In his opinion, the segregation gave blacks access to public services and accommodations, which they would have otherwise been excluded from in the early South. ... Litwack, who is a professor of American History, believes that a very cruel environment was created for blacks, because whites had denied them privileges, protection, and rights. ... Rabinowitz really did believe that the racial segregation helped...

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Sal does not discriminate blatantly against the African Americans that eat in his pizzeria, but Spike Lee makes it clear that Sal feels it in his heart. Early in American history, many whites were outright rude and condescending towards blacks. Nowadays, if Americans are racist, they keep their feelings more concealed. I believe Sal represents what we call the modern American "bigot". ...

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History Comparison Essay The future of the freedman W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. ... Washington had been exposed to slavery and the troubles of the black man during and prior to the dilemma of the freedman at an early age. Dubois was not exposed to the daily problems that slaves endured until his early teenage years. ... Although a large amount of people believed that African Americans did not deserve to be slaves, they did not believe that African Americans were the average white man's equal. Dubois and Washington being two very prominent African American leaders both ha...

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Born into an abolitionist family, he was the great nephew of John Mercer Langston, the first Black American to be elected to public office in 1855. ... Woodson was the editor of the Journal of Negro Life and founder of Black History Week. ... He also writes about the Black Renaissance, a dynamic yield among Negro artists that coincided with America's golden age of prosperity.(Hughes 23) The purpose of this book is to talk about his life, he writes about how it is unfair back in the early 1900's to be black and how the Black Renaissance changed a lot. ...

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Also, there have been many groups persecuted throughout the history of this country. ... Irish, Mexicans, Italians, and Native Americans have all been exploited throughout our history. ... This, however, cannot be brought up now in the early 21st century. ... African-Americans were not the only group persecuted in this country. Just as mentioned earlier, there are many groups that were persecuted; therefore, if we give reparations to blacks then where must we draw the line with Italians, Irish, Mexicans, and Native Americans? ...

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That's my NIGGA", is what the average African American person would substitute for the connotation of their buddy, acquaintance, friend and associate. ... The connotation behind the word nigga symbolizes unity within the African American culture and society. ... White people think the meaning is derogatory and always will be because of their perspective on how it was used throughout history. ... Throughout history the word nigger was never used in a manner that demonstrates pleasant things, it was always used to belittle a black person for not being similar to what the average person w...

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In one way it is symbolic of the African Americans' struggle for equality throughout this nation's history. ... This is symbolic of the African Americans' fight for equality. ... This represents what happened in this nation's history as well. ... He dreamed about what his grandfather had said earlier. ... It is representative of the many struggles and hardships that this nation's African American population endured throughout their history since the end of slavery when they started advocating for their equality, and "Batlle Royal" is one of those many stories written...

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As the civil rights movement intensified during the early 1960's, Baldwin became an active participant. ... ther he was the Medgar Evers or James Meredith in Mississippi, at a session with Robert Kennedy in New York, on a speaking tour for the Congress of Racial Equality, or helping in the voter registration in Alabama, Baldwin was committed "to end the racial nightmare of our country and change the history of the world" (http://www.galenet.com, pg. 15). ... The personal ritual states a series of ideas relevant to contemporary America. ... As an openly gay African American, Baldwin ha...

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However, only one third of African Americans would take medication if the doctor prescribed it for them (NMHA 2). ... (Wesley 2) There have been several well-known black women in past history that have suffered from depression, actress Dorothy Dandridge, singer Phyllis Hyman are two who committed suicide due to silent suffering of depression (Starling 3). ... This illness became apparent in the early eighties when Jennifer was at the top of her career; the singer was in a Broadway play Dream Girls, every night after her performance she would hide out in her hotel room covering up her feelin...

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Those supporting the Native American's case use the NAGPRA law against the Science case. ... He does not carry the usual characteristics a Native American does. ... When somebody dies, does the environment they pass away in become their history? ... Well, Kennewick mans stereotype made him come across as being of Native American decent. ... In fact, evidence lies against the Native American approach and shows that he was most likely of early Japanese decent. ...

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McBride's race came to his attention at an early age. ... Growing up without such information became an issue that eventually became an obsession for him to figure out his family history, especially his mother's mysterious life that was never discussed. 3) The most important information Page#2 Ruchel Dwajra Zylska was an immigrant. ... Her parents got rid of that name when they moved to America. ...

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Racism People see racism everyday across America. ... Throughout history blacks haven't always been the smartest people. ... That's one of the main reasons racism is very bad across America. ... Hate in America is getting worse and worse everyday. ... And in their earlier years were known to ride on horses and kill blacks for no reason, just hate. ...

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Langston Hughes did not want to omit his experiences of a black man in America. ... He displays conflict to being African American and his racial identity in the twentieth century. ... His work challenged the white authority in America. ... Claude McKay's visions and artistic accomplishments in the early parts of the twentieth century set the foundation for the Harlem Renaissance. ... History starts unfolding right before our very eyes....

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In North America, and more specifically Canada, racism has become an issue of great debate over the years culiminating in many movements to end ineqaulity and racism and on the flipside, many movements to promote and spread racism and racial discourse througout society. ... It is also important however, to analyze the history of racism in Canada and observe how that has contributed to some of the racial "seeds" which can be found in the racism apparent today in Canadian society. Racism in Canada, especially dating back around a century and a half ago, has a long and dis...

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American racism and exploitation have generated black protest. ... Its significant uses of the black religious community to accomplish political goals also linked the modern movement to the earlier mass movements, which also relied heavily on the church. ... The NAACP had been founded in New York eight years earlier and had previously focused most of its organizing in the North. ... Two, this was the first time in American History that blacks adopted nonviolent tactics as a way of bring social change. ... August 28, 1963 Martin Luther led the biggest protest to date in...

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