Our lack of feudal past helped to erode our pre-capitalist status, while the legacy of slavery kept inequalities between blacks and whites. ... In the third stage, increased social mobility and a greater sense of opportunity significantly erode pre-capitalist status differences and reduce (although by no means eliminating) the advantages deriving from inherited wealth" (Siedentop, 155). ... Yes, the lack of a feudal past helped to erode pre-capitalist status. ... But slavery left a distinct scar: the inequalities between black and white men both socially and economically. ... Therefore th...

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However, these two scholars disagreed on strategies for African American social and economical progress. ... During the time between 1895 and 1920, black Americans experienced many social, economic and political difficulties. ... He encouraged blacks to become educated and to work in agriculture and industry, to accept their second-class status in American society. ... He believed that only though education could blacks gain status and that Washington's idea promoted black submission to whites. ... In his mind, this step was as good as the Black community telling the white community that ...

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Therefore hip-hop should be considered beyond its original status of a genre but as an essential learning tool to understand a consistently misunderstood and isolated faction of people. ... 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. ... This cohort embraces the beliefs of American society concerning individualism personal express...

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This movement's success inspired many other social movements, including the Women's Liberation Movement. ... Participation in the Civil Rights Movement empowered SNCC female members to challenge their inferior status to men by affording these women the opportunity to articulate their opinions. ... Once they realized that they had the skills necessary for initiating reform, they began "to resent performing the mundane tasks reflective of their second-class status" (Polletta, 2002, p. 155). ... The Civil Rights Movement also changed the culture of advocacy – it made soc...

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Wright finds throughout his own passage into manhood that both white and black America will fight to promote the status quo and keep the black man from achieving. ... Richard was punished for not conforming to a social ideal promoted by the black community at large: the politics of responsibility. ... Thus, Haskins was persecuted rather than respected for having achieved the goal status of the politics of respectability. ... Additionally, black insistence on acquiescing to the social norms prescribed by these politics caused them to limit the potential for Richard's growth and success....

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This movement, known as The Great Migration, offered opportunity in the economic, social, environmental, and political forces among black southerners. ... African Americans were beginning to rise in social class and prove themselves equally capable of achieving all what white Americans had achieved for centuries; the blacks built churches, mutual aid societies, social clubs, established new businesses and services, launched diverse labor, civil rights, and political organizations (33). ... In fact, Trotter points out African Americans beginning as the most rural of Americans and confirms the...

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African Americans have constantly been inflicted with the social status of their low income level in contrast with that of White Americans. ... However, there is a huge wealth gap in social status among blacks and whites; because of oppression, discrimination and racism toward the modern day contemporary black. Whether, anybody wants to admit it, there is still a glass ceiling (status barrier) against African Americans. ...

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He secretly longs for the comfort and privacy of his grandfather's mansion on the old family plantation, despite his avowed repudiation of his family's status as former slaveholders. ... She lives modestly and looks back longingly on their family history, reminiscing about the family plantation as well as the political and social influence held by previous generations of the family. ... He is far more concerned with class status in relation to black people and makes this apparent in the type of men and women he befriends. ... Although Julian's mother may be overtly racist, Ju...

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Education was a major social factor responsible for emergence of the Black bourgeoisie. ... "Industrial" education was made to instill in the students a spirit of humility and an acceptance of their inferior status. ... Factors that affected the denomination of the churches in which the Black middle class takes membership are because of their social status, and because of the financial advantages. Many Black professionals have continued their membership in the Methodist and Baptist churches because of their clients, and as they move up the social ladder they tend to seek affiliatio...

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To calm their fear, whites demand more police presence to ensure social control in black communities. ... Credit ratings may also vary even for blacks and whites with comparable economic status. ... "Socioeconomic status and acculturation" determine social mobility (Charles, 2003, p. 170). ... Overall, consideration of the three theories results to fear based on racial stereotyping, individual and institutional prejudice and discrimination, and little improvement in the socioeconomic status of blacks as causes of the persisting racial residential segregation. ...

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He argues that "the massive social engineering under apartheid in South Africa" is an example of "high modernist utopianism of the right." ... The final method of segregation was social segregation of public places, methods of transportation, and schools. ... Arguably one of the most devastating aspects of the social engineering of Apartheid was its creation of the Bantu Education Act of 1953. ...

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Douglass held many prestigious titles in government and business, his social status helped break the barrier for other blacks to enter into the government and gain similar positions. ... Frederick Douglass broke the barriers placed around the black man's social status and weakened their inferior stereotype. ...

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Specifically, white people involved in Hip-hop sparks debates and controversy about their appropriation and interpretation of Hip-hop music, which is typically assumed to be part of the black culture and black social identity (Kitwana, 2005). ... African-American music also had its own history of white appropriation that continuously re-occurs as a form of racial discrimination and a promoter of social inequality. ... This is an example of negative white participation that promotes social inequality because when these types of shows are seen by the public eye, the perception on blacks that aud...

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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. ... He wanted to show that how Blacks were regarded in society and how they viewed themselves, was the product of suppossed white social and intellec...

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To illustrate, the women in the town are of unequal status compared to the men in the society. ... During the speech, the narrator uses the phrase "social equality" and this startles some of the listeners. The men laugh and make the narrator correct this phrase with more acceptable words of "social responsibility." ... Ellison dramatizes the situation by having the white men force the narrator to repeat "social responsibility" several times. ... The objection of replacing the black box and the correction of the phrase "social equality" to "social respons...

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I think that unlike white women who are so divided by class, African- American women can come together regardless of economic status because they have all had the similar struggles of race and gender no matter what amount they make. ... Therefore, more women of color could come together on social levels and talk about problems they face because it is most likely other women of color would be able to agree that they too are oppressed....

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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, which was making an eager call for the Westward Expansion. ... Besides people who were going westward, white manufacturers and hand-craftsmen in the North also benefited from these social developments. ... In addition, although they were legally considered whites but they are not classified as ...

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Thus, the status of African American life has changed insignificantly since the Civil Rights Movement. ... The Movement failed to eliminate social, physiological, and economic discrimination against African Americans. ... But as evidenced through America's past, legislature does not necessarily set the precedent for social change. ... These are just a few examples that display the social inequalities in regard to African Americans. ... To this day, only political gain has been achieved, leaving American Americans socially and economically unequal. ...

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The idea of race differences had become an instrumental part of American social structure. ... "Race" had become a social phenomenon. ... Once white superiority had anchored itself to the social construct, associations with it came into existence. ... White superiority provided a security blanket to those whites of lower social standing. ... Only abuse and prosecution laid in wait for those who disagreed with the status quo. ...

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An analysis based on social cues, such as stereotypes, can expose implicit, or unconscious, racial prejudices that we are not able to explicitly express. ... On the other hand, her old roommate is fully aware of racial and social status, and we can see this in her rudeness and shunning demeanor directed at the narrator. ... The racial identities of these women are irrelevant, as the story's purpose is to evoke the use of social cues for attempted reason. ... The influence of society has allowed the empathy towards individuals to intertwine social stereotypes and racial prejudices....

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From spring 1775 until the fall of 1776 the rights and status of the black slave in America were closely questioned. ... Lord Dunmore was aware in 1775 that the offer of freedom to the black slaves could challenge and successfully disrupt the economic and social infrastructure of the colonies. ... The status of the black slave - and their means of employment - was not improved even after their enlistment in the British army. ...

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He found work as a correspondent for New York newspapers, and slowly began to realize the inhibitions of social boundaries he was expected to observe every step of the way. ... n to a status of little difference from slavery, and saw them terrorized at the polls. ...

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But, it should be noted that Black American women were undervalued for a doubly-disadvantage; apart from their race, there also exists the fact of their sex, female being in a patriarch society, women have been always considered in a lower status than men. ... Nevertheless, she was not alone, there was in her offspring, other members of her family who had struggle to gain social equality for Canadian blacks; as his father, Abraham Doras Shadd, who strike against racism in Canada establishing masonic lodges there. ...

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He was born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a place where social and economic activities were reinforced by "primary democracy"- all of its citizens had a right to be heard. ... The new social science of his time was based on seeking truth of human history through an examination of historical documents; therefore DuBois adopted this new method and as a researcher, conducted many studies including one on the urbanization of blacks in the North (The Philadelphia Negro) and the organization of blacks in the South (The Atlanta University Publications). ... DuBois believed that so...

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In response to these changes, the states organized efforts to limit the political, social, and economic status of the freed slaves. ... Happening in the beginning of the story well before the riot, the meeting symbolizes the strictness of past social policies regarding race. ...

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