Ignatiev Book Review I found Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish became white, confusing in the way information was presented, it seemed as if it was not interwoven tightly enough with each sub-thesis presented for the individual chapters. ... Many characters which were presented in the book had some sort of confusion as to where their true loyalty lay. ... The Democratic Party also seemed more sympathetic to the Irish's concern that free blacks would take their jobs. Chapter Four talked about the emergence of Labor Unions and the growing nervousness with job security....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book "Writing from south Africa" ventures many different pieces of writing during the brutal period of Apartheid in South Africa. ... In the first story William writes about how life was difficult for the black community during apartheid, for even a beggars job was better than a normal job. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many black American activists became increasingly popular during this time period, Booker T. ... Booker T. ... (Out of Many, 557) Progressives helped bring about state modification that required safety precautions in factories and allowed workers to collect money for injuries suffered on the job. ...

• Word Count: 1668
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• 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...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the Great Depression, colored people found it much harder to find work because of their skin color, and many reverted to being field hands and doing many jobs that used to be considered slave labor in the 1770s to the 1830s. Colored families faced an unemployment rate that was much higher than whites, which caused many to be forced into poverty stricken homes and to settle in small towns where there were less whites and hopefully more jobs. The colored families were met with passive aggressive racism in these towns, but were often given jobs, and the towns like Maycomb from To Kill a Mo...

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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. ...

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Since the majority of the community worked menial jobs and could not read, they issued poll taxes and literacy tests to increase their prevention of freed slaves voting. ... The Wilmington (Wellington) Race Riot, the core of Charles Chesnutt's book, was surrounded by the controversial elements of the Jim Crow South and the growing hatred of the Black community. ... This is evident in the book immediately following the robbery and murder of Mrs. ... During this particular scene of the book, he was asked to end his conversation with Dr. ... All in all this book lead me to believe that no ma...

• Word Count: 1273
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INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. ... PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER The book offers a variety of social commentary, especially on race-related issues. ... (Baldassarro) It is certainly not likely that a book that has no current-day relevance anymore would receive such a treatment. 4. ... Most white protagonists, however, are working in white-collar jobs. ... The most extreme form of continued racism in the novel is the return of the Ku Klux Klan to Clanton halfway through the book. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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....

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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. ...

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In anguish and uncertainty over the unfamiliar setting around him and his own lost identity, Shadrack begins to cry on a curbside and is picked up by the police and promptly booked for "vagrancy and intoxication," showing white society's destructive stereotyping and lack of concern for those outside of the norm (13). ... He stands in line for nearly a week hoping for the chance to work a masculine road building job, "real work" as he calls it, instead of the waiter position he currently holds (81). ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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. A major factor in the success of the movement was the strateg...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate