Unemployment peaked in some parts of the country at above 40 percent. ... The act prevented Chinese people to continue migrating into the country. ... However, America took steps to prevent other countries from taking our spot as number one. Tariffs were used to put large taxes on any foreign goods trying to be brought into the country to be sold. ... While Americans were trying to make the most of available land by developing in Wyoming and Montana, the new Yellowstone Park was helping establish the National Parks System. ...

• Word Count: 2011
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Michelle Alexander discusses how every progressive, national civil rights organization in the country have mobilized and taken affirmative action on the injustice brought to them by a corrupted and bias government. ... I would evaluate that in response to the injustice brought on some African American prisoners, activist movements began to develop in order to face the political issues brought from the American government. ... On page 42 of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration, it states that segregationists developed a racially sanitized rhetoric of "cracking down on crime" and it...

• Word Count: 565
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While in Mississippi, she worked for racial issues related to the civil rights movement, and also helped fight for funding of one of the largest Head Start programs in the country for which she was nationally recognized. ... With her leadership, the CDF has grown to be the country's leading promoter for children and families. ... Being raised to think that it is every person's responsibility to assist in perfecting the lives of others, Edelman developed a personal belief that has steered her through life: "If you don't like the way the world is, you have an obligation to chan...

• Word Count: 782
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1906, the Athletic Club of Brooklyn, NY, became the first independent black basketball team in the country. ... Washington once said, "Blacks should specialize in their traits in order to develop successful black businesses and develop economic stability.... Parents and educational officials worked toward developing young women who embodied the qualities of tenacity and self-control that would help them engage the inevitable obstacles placed in their paths by racism and sexism. ... Black newspapers across the country dubbed her "Queen Ora," describing her as "brilliant,...

• Word Count: 2290
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Expansion out of the Hastings Street Quarters to integration into developing areas where large groups of Jewish second generation immigrants would stronghold and diversify was next as the Jewish community flourished. ... Whether from abroad or migrating across the country, these groups were never truly accepted into Detroit's culture. ... Each culture grew and developed into their own nitche and is now a permanent part of Detroit culture...

• Word Count: 932
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There, African American men, women, and children developed an underground culture through which they "affirmed their humanity". ... The "Old South" as the author constantly refers to it, " developed a serious positive-good proslavery argument, although hints and patches appeared everywhere that slavery existed." Genovese backs up this statement with documents of accounts of slaveholders from other countries at around this time period in order to differentiate the view of the Southerners with those of the international slaveholding community. ...

• Word Count: 906
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An adopted child can become integrated into a new family by developing the connection and eventually producing moral obligations to the new family. ... In Africa, there are many different tribes that exist in various parts of this country. ... But it is shown that many of these African tribes will often develop problems and go into war against each other. ... This is why special connections cannot be developed through the large amounts of people in a specific racial group. ...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By moving to the north African Americans were hoping to gain loyalty from the country by working in factories that produced war-time materials. ... For the first time in the 20th century women were beginning to stand out in society and making their presence be known during a time in which the country needed them the most. ... The wartime efforts made by women developed a long term effect on society similar to the goals of the African Americans and women soon achieved women's suffrage after the war ended. ... " This exact statement from Document C showed that Wilson had changed ...

• Word Count: 1094
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Our country is no stranger to riots that cause major civil disturbances, which often result in thousands of dollars in damages and mass amounts of both injuries and casualties. Since the end of slavery after the Civil War, race riots found their place in our country's history, and though it has been decades since extreme situations of racial segregation or discrimination have plagued our society, that doesn't mean either one has completely vanished. For decades, the negative attitudes towards minorities outweighed the positive attitudes and the abundance of negative opinions has attr...

• Word Count: 1061
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main factors contributing to the development of the Harlem Renaissance were African-American urban migration, trends toward experimentation throughout the country, and the rise of radical African-American intellectuals. ... The visual art of the Harlem Renaissance was an attempt at developing a new African-American aesthetic in the fine arts. ...

• Word Count: 783
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Africans were never slaves but despite that the people of our country still treated them as if they were, simply because they were black. ... 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. ... They still feel as if they have been wronged on behalf of their people, and they understand that no apology or memorial can ever...

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

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," and "Ballad of the Landlord," then, is just the start of a long chain of poems by Hughes which stand up to develop, and change the verifiable experience of African Americans into a workmanship both limpid and automatic. ... In Hughes poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", he is unmistakably mindful of the foul play and persecution in his general public. " My spirit has developed profound like the streams. ... Fine Clothes to the Jew may remain in relationship to African American poetry in a manner similar to Walt Whitman's 1855 release of Leaves of Grass stands...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Several theories have been recently developed to explain the origins and reasoning of racial inferiority and the manner in which the Latter-day Saint Church treated African Americans during the last one- hundred and seventy-one years. ...

• Word Count: 3075
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the first half of the 19th century, the United States was experiencing drastic economic and social changes. It was a time when a person's social class was largely determined by his or her racial identity, with the whites at the top of the hierarchy, playing dominant roles of the ambitious era, wh...

• Word Count: 1187
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Other immigrants were labeled as unhealthy due to the fact that their native country were stricken with diseases and famine and thought to be rampant. ... The Drug Courier Profiles were developed by the Drug Enforcement Administration in the 1980's, the public policy has been used to profile individuals based off of their appearance through this policy. ... Multicultural Implications of Racial Profiling "There is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. ...

• Word Count: 1975
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract Hip-Hop has long been demonized for its militant language and outlawed narrative as a part of American society. But, despite its controversy it has remained a source of encouragement to many as its influence spreads across the globe. Hip-hop's origins are undoubtedly African-American, this ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This essay will critically evaluate the evidence for the view that the American criminal justice system is racist, comment on the view that the Justice system is racist, with evidence gathered from both sides of the argument, and will conclude to agree with the view that the system is racist. "We ca...

• Word Count: 2307
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African American fraternal societies allowed for a large organizational network that spanned from localities and regions of the country and produced the mobilization of resources on behalf of the struggles for equal rights. ...

• Word Count: 3545
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. Fundamental to the understanding of these differing stances is the reasoning behind the driving forces of these doctrines and how they may or may not have ...

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

By being persona non grata in both countries, Jian-Wa need have loyalty to neither, and he, as Aihwa Ong might say, becomes a "flexible citizen- [3] able to negotiate transnational culture in a way a rooted, law-abiding, character with a legal visa or green card may not. ... As Hong Kong prepared to return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, the end of martial law in Taiwan made its political future less certain in the mid-1980s, and anti-Chinese sentiments in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world continued to take their toll, the heroism of a Chinese fugitive without a country could be...

• Word Count: 9463
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... African American women writers helped with the setback of these stereotypes and African American women have been develop to be seen as "living human being[s] with [their] own desires and needs" (Christian, Black Feminist Criticism 16). ...

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