Despite its size and relatively low crime rates, Carbondale has many African American males who face consistently ominous encounters with the justice system. High incarceration rates and race have a strong correlation in Carbondale, Illinois. ... When I conduct a mental landscape of my community, I recall the neighbor in back me serving federal time, and the neighbor across the street from me serving state time. Furthermore, there were two brothers down the street from me who served multiple times in prison. ...

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African Americans reported higher levels of depressive state with symptoms at a rate of . ... Therefore, the effect was significant to show that African Americans had a higher rate of depressive symptoms than Caucasians had. With this information available, I find that the research was an important tool and resulted to be very informative in the rate finding of depressive symptoms prior to the status of relationship quality. The research allowed me to understand the difference of relationship quality that each ethnic group contributes to. ...

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"Afro-Americans have the lowest rate of marriage in the nation, and those who do get married have the highest rate of divorce of any major ethnic group . . .." ... At the same time there have been countless bits of information that have amazed me. ...

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The racist illness of the past has trickled down into our generation which is evident in poverty rates as well as conviction rates amongst African Americans in comparison with Caucasians for similar crimes. ... I was unaware of the racial tensions that occur in front of me on a day to day basis. ... The cycle of socialization affected me since birth, as it does everyone else, because I was born into a world with people that taught me to respect those around me, respect the differences that separate us, and to appreciate different cultures. ... My idealistic thinking was reinforced by parents w...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Unfortunately, at the same time, the FBI was reporting dramatic increases in the national crime rate. In the 1960s, crime rates rose for about 10 years; reported street crime quadrupled, and homicide rates doubled. ... " The surge of young men was occurring precisely at the same time that the unemployment rates for black men was. ... Rising crime rates were used as an excuse for a crackdown on impoverished black communities. ... In ten years, rates of drug abuse, addiction and drug-related crime had plummeted. ...

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Paul Bou-Habib stated, "If the rate at which members of a specific racial group commits a crime is higher than that of other criminals will be caught if the police concentrate their efforts on investigating members of the racial group in question?... It makes me wonder how the mass incarceration of black males in society is so extreme, because of the poor communities many lived in. ... Research states that incarceration rates between 1880 and 1970 extended about "100 to 200 prisoners per 100,000 people" (Khalek, 2011).  ... In the past 30 years crime rates do not explain the u...

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In "I Get Around" Tupac says "All respect to those who break their neck to keep their hoes in check/ cause, oh, the sweat a brother majorly/ and I don't know why your girl keeps paging me.... Tupac used slang phrases such as "why you sweatin' me" and "don't stop for hoes.... The STD and HIV/AIDs rate in the African American community is higher than any other race in the United States. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unemployment rates are extremely high for the young males, according to a study conduct by Fox News "92 percent of black male teenagers between the ages of 16-19 years old are not employed" (Flannery, 2014). ... Ron Wilkins explains "the gangs made me feel like I had an identity, sense of family and a sense of acceptance". ... Bird tells the story "I was in the wrong neighborhood just walking and the policed stopped me, asked what I was doing in this neighborhood and said I looked like a robbery" (Crips and Bloods, 2008). ...

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A community filled with individuals with such a low education, is the foundation for very high crime rate. ... Also surprising to me was the extent of discrimination in the Henslin reading "Invisible Man". It is concerning to me that in the 1990's someone would be blatantly turned away solely based on race, despite qualified credentials. ...

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The WPC weren't objecting to the increase in bus fare because they were unwilling to pay, but because of the way that black passengers would be treated in spite of the increased rate. ... Black cab drivers offered former riders of the Montgomery buses fares at reduced rates until local officials forced them to collect the regular rate. ... For instance, Miss Juliette Morgan, a librarian at Montgomery Public Library, writes in her letter to the Advertiser's editor, "Their cause and their conduct have filled me with great sympathy, pride, humility, and envy. ...

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Gill states that "I am more accurate at assessing race from skeletal remains than from looking at living people standing before me" (Gill). ... Sickle cell anemia is often thought of as an African disease, and while it does have alarmingly high rates in some parts of Africa, scientists have discovered that it did not originate there. ... Wherever malaria is a larger risk, sickle-cell anemia is apt to occur at higher rates. ...

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In his book, Dark Water: Voices From Within the Veil, Du Bois said, "I felt myself standing, not against the world, but simply against American narrowness and color prejudice, with the greater, finer world at my back urging me on. ... The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. (17)" Any other race that was not white was suddenly second rate to the superior and majority white man. ... That is not for me to say, but be brave! ...

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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. ... I can't even imagine what it would be like to be around people just like me all of the time. ... It has given me a more open mind to many different cultures and I have learned different things from each one. ... "We like it this way," said my friend Alfredo Lewis commenting on the community empowerment theory, "I don't care if a fe...

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For example I can go back to the history of African American which will lead me back to Africa. ... Urban cities have the highest crimes rates and violence gangs robbing killings, and the most people that in live that type of environments is African American and Latinos. ...

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"NO nation can enslave a group of people for hundreds of years, set them free "bedraggled and penniless "pit them, without assistance, in a hostile environment against privileged victimizers, and then reasonably expect the gap between the heirs of the two groups to narrow. Lines begun parall...

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Introduction The Middle Passage is the crossing of the Ocean from Africa to America of African people, who passed from the state of liberty to the state of slavery, and took place between the XVI and XIX centuries. They were captured from the tribes situated on Africa's West Coast: Nigeria, Iv...

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"You go, we go" is a famous phrase often used by firefighters that shows their brotherhood and loyalty to one another. Being a firefighter to the public eye is about being there during a disaster or at anytime anyone is in need since they have the ability to save a life. Although firefighters save p...

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I can remember my grandfather telling me about his trips up seventh avenue on the bus and looking at the beautiful churches, social and civic centers, shops, theatres and other places of amusement. ... Wintz sates that, "This in turn, resulted in serious health problems, which gave Harlem the highest infant mortality and general mortality rates in New York City." ...

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1. Introduction This term paper will be about the magazine FIRE !! which was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. For the first time important figures ( writers ) of the Harlem Renaissance worked together, they found out that it was a great chance to show the blacks that, if they stick together, things could work out fine. I start to take a short look at the political and social situation of the blacks in the twenties and of course I look at the most influential writers at this time. ...

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When you think of African-Americans today what's the first thing that comes to mind? Reverse Racism? Angry? Thugs? Mean? Armed and Dangerous? Threatening? While I tend to think Blacks are resilient kings and queens, I thoroughly understand that the media constantly force feeds us negative represent...

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Huck's father shows this attitude when he says "they said he could vote when he was at homeThinks I, what is the country a-coming towhen they told me there was a State in this country where they'd let that nigger vote, I drawed out. ... "African-American"-designated areas were filled with poverty, overcrowding, high unemployment, and elevated crime rate (Miles, 66). ...

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Realities After Reconstruction African Americans living in the southern United States after Reconstruction encountered extreme hardships in everyday life. Race relations between black and white Americans during this time period were highly strained. Segregation started to take place, violent a...

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In the wake of charging neighborhood school powers with the obligation regarding tackling these issues, the Court trained government trial courts to direct the procedure and figure out if nearby powers were integrating schools in compliance with common decency, commanding that integration occur "with all purposeful rate." ...

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"How could I love a race of people who hated me and who had been responsible for breaking me up with one of my best childhood friends?" ... King and his wife were desperately hoping for about a sixty percent success rate. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on the Black community. The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. ...

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• Grade Level: High School