There are many issues that continually affect African Americans on a daily basis. Some of these issues are political while others are simply a social matter. One of the most controversial and well known issues affecting all minorities, including African Americans is the debate over affirmative action. ... Another controversial issue for African Americans is racial profiling. ... African Americans are gathering together with many other minority groups and bring this issue before congress in an attempt to end racial profiling once and for all. ...

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These workers that were living off of a very small income started to organize around these issues facing them. ... We even see instances of issues with alcohol leak into the political realm with the Whiskey Ring Scandal in 1875. ... Ferguson case of 1896 touched on the issues of interstate commerce. ... Therefore, It would only make sense to see substantial social changes taking place. ... If we look closer into the social structure of these different cultures in such large cities we see h...

• Word Count: 2011
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Many great public issues faced African Americans in today's society now we can take this as an individual perspective or the sociological imagination. ... In 1866 the civil rights act was passed and this allowed blacks to have the same equal right as the white people, in 1863 president Lincoln issued the Emancipations Proclamation law. ... A social problem that I will discuss is unemployment in urban cities. ... I think it is social structures because the way it is set up like public schooling. ... This is example of social structures. ...

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Here we will consider hip-hops role in racial authenticity and its history of social empowerment for African-Americans, its role as a fundamental source of positive racial socialization for black youths and in what ways its elements can be utilized in classroom and therapeutic settings involving urban youth. ... African American youth stand at ground zero for issues of race, nation, gender, age and sexuality (Collins, 2006). ... This cohort embraces the beliefs of American society concerning individualism personal expression and material well being, yet also sees how social issues such as in...

• Word Count: 1971
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Identity is one of the most predominant social commentaries or issues that is conveyed by Leon Gast in his feature documentary When We Were Kings. ... Leon Gast conveys the social commentary or issue of freedom in his feature documentary When We Were Kings. ... The shot construction also conveys the issue of freedom as well. ... Gast has utilised the techniques of structure and shot construction to accomplish his goal of conveying the social commentary or issue of growth. ... The example of the montage is very important in conveying the social commentary or issue of growth. ...

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According to Professor Finnigan, there are three criteria that must be met in order to classify an issue as a social problem. ... The social issue of racial disparity in incarceration has given rise to other social problems. ... By the classification standards of Professor Finnigan, it is safe to conclude that racial disparity in incarceration is, in fact, a social problem facing our society. Most minority communities experience the consequences of this issue. ... The organization of society, specifically in minority communities, is surely damaged socially and financially by the effects of the...

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The issue of race and ethnicity has always plagued the political agenda in the United States. ... Powell immediately and always defended civil rights issues and reflected the will of his constituency. ... At the time, both Powell and Dawson were viewed as champions of civil rights issues. ... He represents the American ideals of courage and aggressive determination in order to accomplish social change. ... He was a key figure in the Civil Rights movement because he constantly fought for minority rights, an end to poverty, and an overall increase in social equality in the United States. ...

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Through his poems and short story composing, Langston Hughes had the capacity to fuse interesting thoughts, as well as social issues essential to him, individual family matters, African American way of life, and even types of music. Therefore, his written work is close to home, and perusers feel captivated to peruse it as they find themselves able to identify with him and the issues exhibited to them through his work. ... One of those such men was James Smethurst with his writings titled, "The Adventures of a Social Poet: Langston Hughes from the Popular Front to Black Power.... The po...

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For many years, sociologists have studied that certain Governments use criminal punishment as a way for social control for certain ethnic groups in particularly lower-class communities. ... 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. ... From page 47, the author mentions a conservative revolution that took place in the 1960's, and how disadvantaged blacks became afflicted from the social changes within the higher classes of so...

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In an effort to attain social reform, the Populist Party swayed the outcome of elections and platforms in the latter 19th century. ... Like any third party, the Populist Party brought about issues too often ignored, while posing as a deciding factor in the outcome of elections. ... Searching for the vote of progression, they brought social, instead of just the political aspects to the surface. ... The Populist Party promoted more humanitarian views, which served as a constant for both political and social consequences. ...

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So many people are left to believe that Asian racism is not as severe an issue. ... The issue of Asian racism is not properly addressed in the American media, so it allows for a kind of subtle yet harmful racism towards Asians to evolve, affecting children and teenagers in the early stages of their lives. ... The idea of American patriotism due to war and other social issues towards Asians have impacted the American media's interpretation of Asians. ... These false assumptions of Asians will only lead to isolation and more social problems, such as violence, in the future. ...

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This is reflected in the text through the representation of individual, social and political relationships, which can be highlighted through further analysis of the morals and values associated with social class, racial inequality and familial bonds within these relationships. ... The social relationships represented in Mockingbird serve to explore the values and attitudes in America in the 1930's. ... Aunt Alexandra's use of metaphor by comparing Walter to ˜trash' represents this social divide clearly. ... Morals and attitudes that surrounded the issue of racial inequali...

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Filled with stifling detail, intense political drama, and great social/economic analysis, The Reckless Decade by H.W. ... The Reckless Decade concentrates on the many social, economical, political, and technological developments and struggles that defined the essence of America in the 1890s. ... Brands also states that protests and court battles against racial segregation of blacks from whites and racism made the public more aware of such issues the end result was the decision that segregation was not a legal matter but a social one. ...

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The issue of equality has taken our entire nation and turned it upside down in mid 1950s. ... Relations between black and white people in Dade County were cordial, as long as black people understood that they were not the social equals of whites. ... What was more shocking to myself throughout research on the topic, is that The Miami Herald had barely mentioned these issues in their highly circulated newspaper. ... This clear avoidance of issue at hand is a recurring theme in politics and Collins was playing this card famously. ... A social and economic struggle inevitably accompanied African...

• Word Count: 1986
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Racial and social justice was the root factor to start the American Civil Rights Movement, due to years of racial segregation such as the Jim Crow Segregation. ... In 1963 in Washington at Lincoln Memorial, thousands gathered in what was known to be the largest social demonstration to fight for jobs and freedom. ... It opened up new social, economic and political opportunities for African Americans. ... However, by the end of the 60s, the movement turned to encompass wide range of concerns, specifically social and economic issues. ... Far from being solely a one-dimension movement in which onl...

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Previously, Cain announced a more lenient viewpoint on the sticky issue that social conservatives and evangelical voters closely consider when choosing a candidate to vote for, but this time he claimed that he opposes abortion in all instances, including rape, incest, or when the birth jeopardizes the life of the mother (McCaffrey). ... Not only did Cain seek to clear up his position on this controversial issue, but he also went as far as claiming that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger strategically placed her clinics in neighborhoods with minorities in order to eradicate the world...

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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. ... The Great War was an event in which male identity and morality, along with physical well being, became issues of public and official concern. ... Their hope was that the war would act as an engine for social change. ... This was attributed to the public's reaction to the CTCA; those people who were tired of the social control and intervention of these social reformers. ... Even if the cause of the order was to do good, the...

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This always irritates me because I believe that if people continue to section themselves off from others that are not of their ethnicity then they are only contributing to racist ideologies as a social symptom. My problem isn't within the fact that each of the groups mentioned consist of people primarily of one race, my issue lies within the statements made by my peers that are in those groups. ... With that said, I believe that in order to cure this hostility and racism social engineering, a reform posed by anthropologist Ruth Benedict, needs to occur alongside empathy. Social engineerin...

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Martin Luther King seemed to take a naturalist view, hungry to incorporate morality into the aims of law in America, while George Wallace stood strong under the positivist view that had drawn direction for the aims of law from social phenomenon rather than a moral compass. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"" speech in comparison with George Wallace's inaugural address highlights the issue of segregation and seems to imply the philosophical views of the two men with regard to positive verses natural law, a subject's duty to obey the law, how law should or should not be used to...

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It was not until thorough research in the official documents of the Union and Confederate Armies that Dew concluded that if slavery was in fact, the major cause for the secession of the South and the civil war; these primary sources are the key into finding the truth in finding evidence about the civil war that had it not been an issue about slavery, there would not have been a civil war at all. ... The authors of Mississippi's "Declaration of Immediate Causes," for instance, claimed that the North "advocates Negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incend...

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Jon Rice's The World of the Illinois Panthers and Johanna Fernandez's Between Social Service Reform and Revolutionary Politics: The Young Lords, Late Sixties Radicalism, and Community Organizing in New York City discuss the mobilization of grassroots to find solutions to the ills that plagued the black community. The Illinois Black Panther Party worked toward dealing with issues that negatively affected Chicago's West Side ghetto, "The Illinois Black Panther Party was an expression of the spirit of grassroots empowerment that had rid the South of de facto segregation." ... The...

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The Northerners had not freed the slaves for moral issues; the white majority did not have anything but its own economic prosperity on its mind. ... After the passage of these amendments, two of the three branches of government disconnected themselves with the issue of black civil rights. Following Grant's unenthusiastic approach to protecting blacks in the South, the executive branch gradually made its position on the issue clear in 1876. ... The Supreme Court supported the Southerners" push for black social subordination, when in 1883 the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was nullified. ... Th...

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" Moreover, the Celluloid Alamo explains that films are often leveraged by "[p]roducers, directors, writers, and censors" to advance their political and social interests (Hutton, 5). ... "The ability of children to assign social status based on speech patterns was demonstrated by Giles in a study on the reaction of British school children to British regional and foreign speech" (Green). ... This, along with "the idea that animation is an innocent medium, ostensibly for children, has done much to inhibit the proper discussion of issues concerning representation&quo...

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A New Negro was to evolve, who, as a new social character, would be able to successfully deal with external and internal factors influencing not only his social status but also his self-identity and individuality. ... Following the same dream did Locke try to promote his new social type through elevating African American artists and their work, while Douglass was one of those who were able to reach a wide audience through their artistic abilites. ... Blacks were to engage in African and African-American art in order to develop a common identity and bring along social and political change. ... ...

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Originally released in 2004, the film Crash did not qualify for the following year's Academy Awards; however it was considered for the most prestigious award within the film industry, an Oscar. While Paul Haggis created the film on an attempt to minimize racial prejudice, the film revealed how the...

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