In the book Code of the Streets, Anderson moves to an urban part of Philadelphia where the African American neighborhoods are filled with people selling drugs, crime rates are high, and people are living in poverty. ... In the book, it's discussed how the whole community must have an equal understanding of the code of the street since it is not just street families who live in these aggressive environments, its people of all backgrounds. ... I thought the book was very insightful as to what is really going on in these urban communities as far as drugs, violence, and jobs go. ... Anderson ...

• Word Count: 684
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This book will earnestly explain that this nation's history has been an exercise in dishonesty, upon all of its citizens. ... Orlando Patterson does an incredible job of explaining to the reader the connection of present racism to the ongoing legacy of slavery. ... There are so many more knowledgeable insights included in this book that I would love to get into. I still have not really understood all of the claims made by Patterson in this book. ... This is yet another book in this class that has embraced a section of life that I never have. ...

• Word Count: 736
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The effects of the "glass ceiling" prevent woman from getting higher ranking jobs. Therefore when men receive higher ranking jobs, they are retaining the advantages from the glass ceiling without necessarily realizing it. This trend has affected me personally as I had received a job at an attorney's office over the summer. ... While the book "Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination" has brought this to my attention as well as many other people, the outlook of change in the future isn't too great. ... For example, without the presence of sexism I wouldn't have had a job...

• Word Count: 1146
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Making Men Moral: Social Engineering during the Great War is a well organized and thoroughly researched book that deals with gender during the First World War. ... Nancy Bristow's book focuses on the Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA), the Progressive program that stressed social justice, and morality, efficiency and above all, government control. ... The book shows how that image reverted back from the Civil War... Bristow's book was by far the book that I have enjoyed the most this semester. While the rest of the class may disagree with me, I believe that she ...

• Word Count: 1179
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Of these African American leaders, Booker T. ... Booker T. ... He believes that, as African Americans, their job is to reject the work and ideas of Washington as a leader (Dubois 44). In 1903, Dubois published a collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, in which he strongly criticized Booker T. ... Booker T. ...

• Word Count: 1189
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her book is a startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American. ... Individually, racism during Anne Moody's book was undertaken in a violent manner such as the verbal ridicule, beating, and killing of African Americans. Today, individual racism would occur if Anne were to apply for a job at a White-owned, only to be told that there were no openings. ... So far, America is doing a marvelous job. ...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After someone is labeled a felon, they lose rights to public housing, and it gets really hard for them to find jobs, which is why according to Michelle Alexander, seventy percent of the people who go to jail are right back inside within three months. (78) The prison industrial complex is a new term for slavery, because many companies make millions of dollars daily off having jails so populated and the more populated jails get, the bigger their pockets become. ... When African Americans are labeled felons for life, once they are out of jail it becomes almost impossible to find a job. ... If the...

• Word Count: 1422
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gabriel Kolko restates Progressivism by saying that it is conservatism in his book "The Triumph of Conservatism.... The African American women would try to obtain jobs for their husbands, brothers, and sons. While, the white women wanted to obtain jobs from their husbands, brothers, and sons. ...

• Word Count: 1026
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Could it possibly be due to the fact that when he was much younger his father always pointed out to them how well the whites were doing whenever he came back from his job of serving them? ... This is just one of the hurdles black artists that remained as black as they were faced with respect to their jobs and art. ... The author of Scarlet Sister Mary said her neighbor didn't take well to the book because she portrayed her characters falsely as "everyone knows niggas don't think....

• Word Count: 1560
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These were boom times for the United States, and jobs were abundant in cities, especially in the North. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book buying public. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Howard Jones in the book Race on Trial, "Black people had brought suit on behalf of their rights as human beings and, whether on the basis of law or morality, went freeIf they [blacks] found equality before the courts, the momentum would develop for their achieving the same status outside the courts. ...

• Word Count: 2862
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. Despite these facts, the development of the legal system with regard to race ...

• Word Count: 3584
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. African American literature, has its origins in the 18th century, has helped African Americans to find their voice in a country where laws were set against them. The position of African Americans in the leading society of the United States of America has not been an easy one. African Americans needed to find a new identity in the New World and were considered an underclass for a long time. In literature, African American writers have been telling the story of their...

• Word Count: 5084
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Owners of big businesses, such as Carnegie, thought that the increasing size and power was benefiting the entire society and economy because owners saw it as opportunities for unskilled workers to get jobs and make money for their families. ...

• Word Count: 2825
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Along with the social construction of race as an tool to gain and maintain power, race was also constructed as an economic apparatus to create a labour force that was virtually limitless and easily replenished as many black were eager to take a job wherever available as a means to support their families. ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate