In the play Trying to Find Chinatown, David Henry Hwang addresses racial identity and discrimination, almost to the point of overkill. ... For example, when Benjamin asks Ronnie for directions to a place in Chinatown, the response is a barrage of aggression stemming from his lack of comfort with how he fits into his own nationality. ... You don't know that's Chinatown? BENJAMIN: Sure I know that's Chinatown That doesn't mean I know where Chinatown-- RONNIE: So why is it that you picked me, of all the street musicians in the City "to point you in the direction of ...

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The Japanese living area is Chinatown shows the reader that perhaps whites have put the Japanese into their own little area. Chinatown contains houses that are far smaller and in general with little fortunes unlike the white Australians. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Characters in "The Divine Wind", written by Garry Disher, live in a society where prejudice is present in everyone. Although the characters try to overcome this prejudice, it is impossible due to surrounding and distant pressures. The lifestyle in Broome in the late 1930's, early 1940's was a stru...

• Word Count: 581
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• Grade Level: High School

Author Laurence Yep argues in his piece, "The Hong Wah Kues Discover America," that the Chinese basketball team was used unfairly for the purpose of entertainment because they were treated as minorities and barely earned any money. Owner James W. Porter formed the Hong Wah Kues basketball team who c...

• Word Count: 889
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the past few hundred centuries, the terms racism, and it's discourse, have reared it's ugly head upon society after society all over the earth in one way, shape or form. Racism is a concept which refers to the assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours of individuals as well...

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• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes Poet, novelist, journalist, playwright, essayist, and songwriter: all of these words describe a man who is said to be one of the twentieth century's most respected and often controversial writers. This man's main mission was to help enlighten people on the racial issues that we...

• Word Count: 1218
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues If students are to appreciate the work of Edith Eaton fully, they must be given its historical and social context. Namely, the reception of Chinese by dominate Americans before and during her period. Students should know that though the Chinese were never enslaved in this country, as were Africans, they were brought here in large numbers as indentured laborers or coolies. The Chinese Exclusion Act was only repealed in 1943 and naturalized citizenship for Asians was permitted in 1954, long after African-Americans and American Indians ...

• Word Count: 2633
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate