It seemed as though the programs purposely chose their guests to fit our cultures' clichéd image of what Native Americans look like. ... Though maybe at that time Native Americans were afraid of or did not understand the settlers, I do not think they all hated white men. ... More recent portrayals of Native American cultures however, still depict them as having strong religious values. ... My perceptions of Native American cultures are riddled with stereotypes taught to me through television, movies and textbooks. ... It is my hope that America can lose its stereotypes, and un...

• Word Count: 768
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America had also taken a bite from the forbidden fruit. ... The idea of race differences had become an instrumental part of American social structure. ... This event dealt with the genocide of the Native Americans. ... Native American burial mounds and earthworks, discovered in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, became a particular topic of discussion. ... Racial superiority also provided justification for the treatment of slaves, and for the exploitation and genocide of Native Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. The Native Americans did not consider "white way of living righteous" for them, they were spiritual and had a different outlook on life, and did not want interference from outside world. ... Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely...

• Word Count: 1265
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. The Native Americans did not consider "white way of living righteous" for them, they were spiritual and had a different outlook on life, and did not want interference from outside world. ... Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely...

• Word Count: 1273
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The damages African Americans have sustained from White America because of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. ... African Americans have no native language or any African customs to connect them to Africa. ... Americans should realize the magnitude of slavery consequences on African Americans as a whole. ... Well, America promised African Americans 40 acres and a mule. ... America pays false imprisoned citizens in America. ...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Lipsitz xix) Lipsitz offers compelling, emotional, and historical facts and stories to support his claim that America has an investment in whiteness. ... "During colonial times, colonials gave rewards to the Native Americans for the capture of black runaway slaves. The reverse was also a consequence of the investment in whiteness, black slaves were recruited into militias in order to fight the Native Americans (Lipsitz 3). ... (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 ...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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). ...

• Word Count: 896
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They story began by the immigrants demonstrating their allegiance to America by way of denouncing their homeland. ... The Irish immigrants resented any foreign involvement in their quest to become American. ... Ignatiev then used Thomas Branagan as an example of what living in America could do to one's thoughts. ... " The Union makes no distinction between natives and foreigners. ... The Protestants in America considered the Irish to be a lower class just like they were back in Ireland. ...

• Word Count: 1854
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This broadened the law to include any American agency or business that received federal assistance to abide by the same laws. ... We are now seeing more women, white and black primarily, black men and even the American native Indian in the American workplace. ... Naturally, the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Campaign and NAACP are among the advocacy groups. The American Conservative Union, the Federation for American Immigration Rights and the Color-Blind America Group support the students bringing the lawsuit. ... Forcing the hand of the white men in America to ...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These writings really get into specifics regarding the treatment of African-Americans in terms of gender and color during this time period. ... These phrases have their philosophical foundation in the Abolition Movement of the early nineteenth - century America. ... Double-consciousness refers to the idea that the Negro in America must look at himself through the lens of a white person, or in other words take on the consciousness of the white American, as well as his native identity. ... Education was very specific to white culture and widely denied to Blacks in America. ... He would always...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate