"During colonial times, colonials gave rewards to the Native Americans for the capture of black runaway slaves. ... (Lipsitz 51). " "U.S. wars in Asia over the past five decades have also contributed significantly to this view of Asian Americans and Asians as foreign enemies incapable of being assimilated into a U.S. national identity."(Lipsitz 71) In America, Asians have also faced the implications of the possessive investment in whiteness. Japanese and Japanese Americans, during World War II, were forced into internment camps."... (Lipsitz 25) " Being Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese...

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One aspect of this is the disparate treatment of persons of color which occurs across the entire American criminal justice system. ... Whites comprise the majority of the American population, blacks about 12.7%, and Latinos represent about 11.7%. ... African Americans are arrested for drug offences at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites. ... In 2000 only 4.2% of attorneys were African American, 3.4% were Hispanic, and 2.2% were Asian. ... (Gustaffsen, StarTribune (2009)) American society is becoming more racially and economically divided. ...

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Following this shocking statistic, recent findings of the Associated Press poll of racial attitudes in America concluded that 43% of blacks are anti-black (Ross). ... This hacked into the audience's pathos, as purchasers felt sheer animosity towards the African Americans, now that the whites could no longer conveniently use the blacks as slaves. ... Almost all races, especially Asians, and particularly South Koreans cosmetically alter their features for the western appeal. ... The early 1900s was a time in which advertisements and public mockeries of African Americans, such as Elliott...

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For example, extrinsic racists will argue that many African Americans are less intelligent from other groups of races because they are simply African Americans. ... For example, many white Americans believe that they are morally superior to other racial groups because they are simply white. ... For example, if my father, who is Korean-American, ran for president against Obama, I would be in favor of my father because he is simply my father. This would be the same as if the Koreans in the Asian community was in favor of picking my father over Obama simply because my father is Asian. ... For exa...

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Racist" and "racism" are provocative words in American society. ... African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans (people-of-color) live daily with the effects of both institutional and individual racism. Race issues are so fundamental in American society that they seem almost an integral component. Some Americans believe that race is the primary determinant of human abilities and capacities. Some Americans behave as if racial differences produce inherent superiority in European Americans (whites). ...

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And that's why I have chosen this topic of diversity, because it is one that still continues to be a sore spot in America. ... An increasingly assertive opposition movement argues that the battle to guarantee equal rights for all citizens has been fought and won and that favoring members of one group over another simply goes against the American grain. ... Whatever the merits of affirmative action for black Americans, it makes little sense to extend its benefits to those whose claims on the nation's conscience are far less cogent -- and who come here expecting no special help. Ne...

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Du Bois says that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in American and the islands of the sea,"" (Du Bois 45) . ... This uncertainty that Du Bois describes existed because black Americans identified themselves through the judgment of white Americans. ... But through this uncertainty, black Americans could see what was being denied from them, and through this they can identify the truths of U.S society that white Americans are unable to identify. ... Black Americans possess the grea...

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The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. Millions of African Americans fought for achieving racial equality before the law. ... African-American women took up leadership roles, as previously demonstrated by Baker and Robinson, while white college-aged women started getting involved with the SNCC, especially after Freedom Summer in 1964. ... Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the PCSW issued a report titled American Women in 1963, which exposed and denounced sex discrimination and outli...

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Appearance has held such precedence for Americans. ... In one case, which happened on March 3, 1991, four Los Angeles police officers brutally beat African American Rodney King. ... By casting a negative light towards Arabs, Africans, Mexicans, Asians or any other races, the justice system clearly demonstrates a great deal of ignorance and disrespect for that individual; just because someone is a member of a certain race does not mean that he or she represents the negative insinuations associated with that race. ... Department of Justice report stated that in 1999, African Americans were 20% m...

• Word Count: 3114
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