In the novel, "They Called Them Greasers," Arnoldo De Leon forcefully illustrates the segregation and ferocious treatment of Mexican Americans by Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. ... De Leon establishes, primarily through the use of historical newspapers and magazines, the perspectives held by the whites in respect to Tejanos, during the nineteenth century. ... With the whites refusing to assimilate to the Mexican American's culture, their need for white supremacy and civilization eventually led to the degradation of Tejanos during the nineteenth century. ... Although publ...

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African Americans were looked down upon in the south during the nineteenth century and were viewed as impure based on skin color. ... The subject of sexism throughout "Desiree's Baby" displays the struggles of women in the nineteenth century as they attempt to live up to their fullest potential. ... In the nineteenth century women could not reach their full potential because of social restrictions. ... In the nineteenth century, to question your husband in that era meant that you were being a rampant, out of control wife. ... This showed me that a woman in the nineteenth centu...

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The Need to Believe In the late 18th century, a significant belief in the history of the world had arisen. ... Racial superiority reified and assimilated into folk culture because of American racial ideologies in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... From the mid-nineteenth century and on, science began to prove biological evidence further anchoring the belief of white superiority. ... The need to believe in a racial superiority existed due to late eighteenth and nineteenth century racial ideologies, the association of racial superiority with power, progress, etc., and as a jus...

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It was like he adapted to the Indians beliefs instantly, which is very hard to believe of a person from the nineteenth century. I do believe that Dunbar is more of a 2000's persona in a nineteenth century setting. 4.) ...

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Eugenics had dire effects in cultures of the twentieth century in many countries. ... Eugenics was created in the late nineteenth century designed as a way to protect the upper class from inferior people and cultures. America was a quarrelsome place in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. ... In the early 20th century American eugenicists attempted to score traits, which was an exceptionally hard problem because eugenicists had to measure extremely complex traits such as musical ability, intelligence, or complex mental illness such as schizophrenia or manic depression. ...

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During the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, many leaders and activists emerged with a common goal of gaining equality and civil rights for African Americans in the United States. ... They both had a huge impact on the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which sparked many future movements toward civil rights, and their work is reflected in present-day society. ...

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For the entire first century of black newspapers, they fought for an end to violence against Black Americans and provided leadership for obtaining equal civil rights (Simmons 1). ... While the goals of these newspapers have changed over the centuries, one thing has remained constant: the role of the black editor. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, survival was a serious problem for most black editors (Simmons 5). ... The Chicago Defender gained national recognition and existed until the late twenty-first century. ...

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These phrases have their philosophical foundation in the Abolition Movement of the early nineteenth - century America. ... This narrative is a real life demonstration that the social structures placed on nineteenth-century women to maintain piety, purity, and submissiveness were only applicable in certain ideal settings for white women and an impossible code for slave women to follow. ... DuBois introduced the theory of double-consciousness in the early twentieth century. ...

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" Multiculturalism recognises that we live in a society made up of people from many different cultures and religions. It aims to promote tolerance and understanding of others and their right to retain their own culture. But, at the same time, it imposes on all of us on obligation to put Australia's ...

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During the eighteenth and nineteenth century there were two main different types of racist people. ... In the words of Martin Luther King "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the twentieth century, I will be happy" (King 1968: 280) during his last sermon. ...

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For centuries, African American women have been contrasted with white women. ... Nineteenth and early 20th century sheet music, postcards, and advertisements document the narrow stereotyping of African-American women as mammies, earth mothers, and seducers. ... Throughout the 20th century, the cross section of both creators and audiences of popular images have changed and the business of commercial imagery itself has become a more sophisticated craft to the extent that contemporary stereotypes of African-American women can be broader and more complex (although no more real) than their 19th cen...

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During the late 1800s and early twentieth century, prejudice against blacks was very strong, and nobody wanted to see them in society's high paying jobs. ... There is some opinion that neither method helped blacks with life in the early twentieth century. ... Education of blacks was much more appropriate for the late nineteenth century, than pushing them towards a long-term goal. ...

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The Concerns of Three At the end of the nineteenth century African Americans were being subjected to cruelty and punishment that one would not wish on his worst enemy. Lynching occurred randomly everywhere, not only in the south where most whites believed these acts of brutality occ...

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Little is known of the Ovimbundu prior to the seventeenth century, due to the fact that the Portuguese made little effort at recording the background of any of the indigenous ethnic groups of Angola, but were more interested in recording their own history. ... By the eighteenth century the Ovimbundu had established twenty-two kingdoms. ... The Portuguese conquered the Ovimbundu in the late nineteenth century (Collelo). ... By the middle of the sixteenth century, the Portuguese traders were giving favorable attention to the ngola, which angered the Bakongo, who sent an army to defeat the ng...

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Numerous events of political racism have taken place in the past, including enslavement of Africans by the Romans, black slavery in America, the mistreatment of aboriginals in various countries, European colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and countless others. ... In the past century, organized, political racism has given way to a more subtle, individual form of racism. ... One of the most intriguing, and publicized events of racism in the past century has been the South African policy of apartheid, (the Afrikaans term for separateness). This polit...

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Roediger's, "The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class," Roediger reveals a complex connection between nineteenth century white race identity and the development of the American working class. ... " Early 20th century scholars on wealth accumulation and psychoanalysis are cited, but they are not put into a dialogue with the concerns about race construction. ...

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It was used in this sense until the mid-19th century when it gradually began to refer to eracial characteristics. ... Ethnicity is intimately related to the evolution of nineteenth and twentieth century state system through the force of nationalism. ...

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Chapter 9: Victorian Sexuality During the Nineteenth-Century, there were many prostitutes in New York. ... European women of the 17th century held a different status in society than a Native American woman. ...

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I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. All lies and jest. Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest. - Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer, 1970 Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Extraordinary Sins Interpreting Mark Twain's work within our distinctly American cultural heritage has absorbed the careers of countless literary scholars. ...

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"Thus we find Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C.E. in Greece seeking to explain the (supposed) superiority of his own people to the peoples of western Asia by arguing that the barren soils of Greece had forced the Greeks to become tougher and more independent- (Appiah 275). ... Slavery alone could have even triggered several battles among the tribes; this occurrence was seen in the Civil War many centuries following the Anglo-Saxon reign. ... Although these responsibilities may not seem atypical in today's culture, these roles are extraordinary when compared to the subservient role ...

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In "Just Walk on By" by Brent Staples, the author describes the reactions of people walking on streets in response to seeing an approaching black man of the author's appearance. Staples begins by describing the first time he had noticed a negative reaction to his presence when a young woman ran awa...

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The Bluest Eye is a bitter novel that vividly reflects the way in which blacks were treated unfairly, and more important, how most blacks were unable to resist oppression from whites during the late nineteenth century. ...

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For a while now African Americans have been searching for acceptance among society. Through modernism, many of today's innovative ideas have developed. Modernism is a movement toward modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas. However, if any of those new ideas were to perhaps com...

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The Bluest Eye is a bitter novel that vividly reflects the way in which blacks were treated unfairly, and more important, how most blacks were unable to resist oppression from whites during the late nineteenth century. ...

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In film, as with any art form, old archetypes and stereotypes integrate themselves into society's conscious through reinforcement. The common threads, positive or negative, were perpetuated by creators who were content to stick with something the audience knew well enough to not be threatened by, an...

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