The largest ethnic group is the British one representing 15% of the American population, on the second place are the Germans with a percentage of 13% and 11% are blacks. ... The income in New York is almost double than in Mississippi regarding the same ethnic group; lifestyle differs also. ... This problem still exists nowadays; the blacks living outside the South are earning almost double than the blacks from South. ...

• Word Count: 572
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Double-Consciousness Double-consciousness is a major theme that courses through many African American literature works. Double-consciousness was a term made up by W.E.B. ... " (Double-Consciousness). ... Double-consciousness has a direct negative affect on identity of African American people. ... This idea directly contradicts the idea of double-consciousness. ...

• Word Count: 3543
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African-Americans and Hispanics make up most of the prison population in America. ... This is a reason why there are so many minorities in the prison population today. ... And for the second group of judges that were racially biased, the sentencing for the blacks was double the rate of whites (Hartman, "End Racial Discrimination"). ... African Americans make up most of the population in the jails today. ... Population (Hartman, "End Racial Discrimination"). ...

• Word Count: 935
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

" The most common surgery is that of double eye-lid surgery, in which an incision is made above the eyelids to create a thicker eyelid crease, emulating the western look. ... Elliott's White Veneer Paint advertisement particularly aims at the white population by advocating white supremacy, which vouches for the claim that racial segregation of the 20th century was both cruel and unjust. As a result of such blatant discrimination, insecurities and feelings of inadequacy still affect populations today....

• Word Count: 791
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The sentencing of death is claimed to have double standards based on these characteristics. ... The numbers are indeed higher but I don"t think that when people see these charts, they are considering the fact that the number of people and the percentages are close between the African Americans and the Caucasians, but African Americans only make up twelve percent of the population today. ... They say at www.coadp.org that there is a double standard for the rich and the poor. ...

• Word Count: 1200
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The unemployment rate among blacks is more than double that of whites, keeping millions of impoverished blacks poor. ... An inordinate 40% of the prison population is of black descent, whereas they make up only 13% of the American populace. ...

• Word Count: 595
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thomson 1317) As Sugars and Moss points out "Shadd ardently advocated the integration of the student population.... Even knowing their own African heritage and the double trouble black women had to put up with, both had helped everyone despite their own circumstances, Alfred as a doctor who is able to forget his sickness because others need his medical services and Mary Ann as a woman who look for shelters for fugitive slaves in A Plea for Emigration and in the shoemaker's shop of her family....

• Word Count: 716
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hate crime legislation is discrimination. That's right, pure discrimination. But you're probably thinking this is ironic, as you've been told hate crimes are supposed to fight this very thing. And after all, this is America, the land where we're supposed to be of any gender, race, religion, or sexua...

• Word Count: 1254
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• Grade Level: High School

According to an article by Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Globe, the average black person earning $60,000 or more per year lives in an area with double the poverty rate than an area that the average white person earning less than $30,000 resides. ... Racial isolation is often defined by a 90/10 rule representing that a block's population is made up of ninety percent like-raced residents and ten percent of another race. ...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction of America. (Alexander 20). W.E.B. Du Bois reminds us that former slaves had "a brief moment in the sun" before returning to a status akin to slavery. In many schools ac...

• Word Count: 4144
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography