This paper will identify with Collins on issues of race and how it affects black motherhood. ... Hooks also presents a flip side to the whole issue. ... They need to work together on the issues of childcare to ensure that the children a raised in what Hooks calls, "the best possible social framework." ... This is a catalyst for social and political activism. ... Longtime oppression has influenced African-American women to seek economic and social justice. ...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The short story "Desiree's Baby-, by Kate Chopin, incorporates very interesting twists and turns capturing the reader's attention, while provoking thoughts on issues deeper than the text itself. ... Chopin addresses social issues with regards to race and gender in this story. ... Although the narrator does not take sides towards issues that arise during the course of the text, her general view does shape the overall characterization of the white Southern society. ... There were some whites in Louisiana who was not racist but they would still have to follow a strict code of segregat...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8

This movement's success inspired many other social movements, including the Women's Liberation Movement. ... The Civil Rights Movement also changed the culture of advocacy – it made social justice a legitimate cause. ... Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the PCSW issued a report titled American Women in 1963, which exposed and denounced sex discrimination and outlined a clear agenda for reform. ... According to MacLean, "The human rights 'revolution' transcends the issue of discrimination on basis of race or color. ... The civil rights movement pushed the private sp...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Yet today there is an outspoken minority who want to stop affirmative action not only as a legal remedy, but also as a social commitment. Now that affirmative action has led to some social changes there are those who are saying our society has gone too far in correcting racial injustice. ... Many meaningful subjects have been introduced to the world in the form of court cases that challenges the issues at hand. ... On opposition to the issue, a writer from the Washington post said this. ... Conservatives, however, see ending affirmative action as a powerful political issue. ...

• Word Count: 1755
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... She suggests that women be judged by different standards than those applied to other women, and in doing so develops a moral code that addresses the specific social and historic position of captive, black women. ... Due to slavery and other prejudices that existed during Douglass" era, there was no resolution to his complex socia...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The main aim was to make women the social equals of men. ... Only expressing the social concern of being equal to men, these women were not taking into account race and class privilege. ... Despite the brutal reality of racial apartheid, of domination, one's homeplace was the site where one could freely confront the issue of humanization, where one could resist." ... Minorities' thoughts were not heard because they weren't in a social position that would enable it. ... These past feminist tended to look at class, racism, and sexism as separate issues. ...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The issue of equality has taken our entire nation and turned it upside down in mid 1950s. ... Relations between black and white people in Dade County were cordial, as long as black people understood that they were not the social equals of whites. ... What was more shocking to myself throughout research on the topic, is that The Miami Herald had barely mentioned these issues in their highly circulated newspaper. ... This clear avoidance of issue at hand is a recurring theme in politics and Collins was playing this card famously. ... A social and economic struggle inevitably accompanied African...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Porter's tom was the first in a long line of socially acceptable Good Negro characters. ... A common theme of social climbing, the ultimate goal of the Negro being suburban living, dominating Black theatres. ... Despite the presence of Black independent filmmakers such as George Randall, African American issues were essentially ignored. The 50's and 60's brought social unrest and the Civil Rights Movement brought a need for films with a stronger message. ... Directors such as Spike Lee and Jon Singleton were able to create race films' which confronted the serious ur...

• Word Count: 1420
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The biggest issue is that one can seem to understand why this is happening. ... According to Waldo Johnson in the book Social Work With African American Males, "African American males' failure to adapt in ways that support and achieve orderly growth and development also results in their characterization as both pathological and dangerous" (pg. 8, 2010). ... These programs and groups brought social awareness and togetherness into the black community. ... A lot of the social programs aimed at helping fathers don't work for black males. "The undeserving status that is ro...

• Word Count: 1355
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Socially, it was incredibly difficult for African Americans to fight for their rights and become equal citizens of the United States. ... Although the right to vote looked promising for blacks, the "Redeemers" fought back with racial issues and argued that the black vote should be completely eliminated. ... In the social setting Washington's views vary quiet differently from his economic notions. ... Washington makes clear that although blacks and whites may come together to work, socially nothing will have changed. ... In the late 1800's a journalist wrote a newspaper pamphlet i...

• Word Count: 1894
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The idea of race differences had become an instrumental part of American social structure. ... "Race" had become a social phenomenon. ... This so-called science (phrenology) issued in a new era that granted "races" a biological reality. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This group has suffered such injustices as racial prejudice, social and sexual discrimination. ... The historical and social experiences of African women since slavery resulted in numerous images that defined African American women as deviant. ... There is a hierarchy when credibility issues arise in the courts. ... It was not until African Americans received their freedom and began mimicking the institutions of the white majority that sexual equality became an issue. ...

• Word Count: 1267
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Modern American racism is a cause of many detrimental social issues. The decline of urban America fueled by white flight, the rise and poisonous grip of the drug trade, the reaction to it, and the abuse of minorities have been major issues that America has struggled with on the racial front for years, and have yet to find any viable solutions to. ... The drug trade was a good idea on paper, and had good intentions to bring out about social harmony, but eventually became a program that accidentally targeted and incarcerated minorities at a staggering rate. ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5

On a day-to-day basis blacks once struggled with social, economical, and political problems. ... In Anne Moody's novel she reveals the social trauma of black life in Mississippi. ... These harsh social conditions that are explained in the novel cannot be fathomed or thought of. ... But as they struggled both socially and economically, they struggled politically too. The political issues that blacks faced not only went from lacking the right to vote but also being segregated from using the same bathrooms and drinking fountains. ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Apartheid called for the separation of whites, blacks, people of mixed race, and Asians in all political and social institutions. ... Since they began to emigrate as slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, African- Americans have had to struggle for equal rights, both politically and socially, in their own country. ... Although blacks and whites are equal under American law, they are far from being equal socially. ... The treatment is so poor that in 1996 the United Nations claimed that Canada's treatment of its aboriginals is in violation of international law a...

• Word Count: 1377
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

" Identify the issues in South Africa during the period 1886-1910 and analyse how they helped shape the future of South Africa."" ... The key issues were, the discovery of gold and the tensions between the Uitlanders and Boers that it produced, the events of the Boer war and the peace agreement, and the aftermath of the Boer war and the development of Boer authority. ... During this time the blacks were almost totally disregarded, however, a social structure began to form which gave ominous signs for their future. ... On the other hand, the whites had political power, economic stabili...

• Word Count: 1512
• Approx Pages: 6

During the same time there was an issue in the south with young white women, usually the daughters of plantation owners, having sex with black men. ... When white women gave birth to black children, the issue turned into a huge problem for many white families. It became a political issue because white people used segregation as a way to retain what they thought was their racial supremacy. ... There are geographic differences and social differences. ... This was also true of the Native American women but to compare the two would be difficult because the social, political and religious struc...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This has allowed an expansion of black men to achieve "middle class social status." ... Government was unable to ignore the issues any longer without a great penalty. ... Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925, which established the Presidents Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (Stephen Cahn). ... The cases filed at the University of Michigan have demonstrated the intensity that affirmative action has on today's social _____. ... A very important statement was made a couple of years ago that says, "We must stop looking for cheap, cosmetic fixes to our deeply rooted social problem...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Yet, racial residential segregation remains an issue today despite efforts to remove this expression of racial inequality. ... To calm their fear, whites demand more police presence to ensure social control in black communities. ... "Socioeconomic status and acculturation" determine social mobility (Charles, 2003, p. 170). ...

• Word Count: 1640
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Reflecting her early political interests as a civil rights worker during the 1960s, many of her social views are expressed in the novel. ... Walker's thinking regarding racial issues at home, it also shaped her interest in Africa. ... Black female reviewers were not so critical of the film on gender issues. ... " These are two major issues found in the movie and they are both issues that had a huge impact on the black community. ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6

Written in the first person of a man named Robert Jones, the novel reflects on these years of intense social change that arose during and after the war. ... In June 1941, in exchange for Randolph calling off the march, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 and created the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). ... But for a person in Bob's position it is difficult to understand how someone could just deny her true identity for a gain in social status. ... The changes in labor demands and roles were forcing social changes in other races as well, because by disrupting traditional pa...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Troy uses baseball metaphors predominately in his conversations with other people to convey his feelings toward issues in passionate tones because he holds such a passion for the game itself. Jim Fowler states, "Troy deals with many issues in his personal life by using baseball terms and experiences to reflect how he feels (246). ... Some circumstances are not under their control such as race or social status, which sometimes arguably may be a derivative of race. ...

• Word Count: 1440
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He felt that he was mislead by Muhammad and decided to start his own social institution called the "Muslim Mosque, Inc." ... Malcolm had many personal and public issues in his life. ... They only did this because according to society being black was the lowest social status available, so many black people tried to be as white as possible. ... Malcolm was so pressured by his social institution that he turned his back to his brother. ...

• Word Count: 1737
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Wells chose to make it about the south because judging the ugliness of the southern social system put her and the reader on the same team in a sense. ... They were "nigger teachers", unpardonable offenders in the social ethics of the south". ... "The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than artificial forcing.... Letting those men know that he had same stance as them o...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Tar Baby," by Toni Morrison, manages numerous issues and subjects. ... Truth be told the distinction in their philosophies turns into the principle issue that isolates them and make their affection essentially unimaginable and bound to fail. ... Incidentally, it is one of the principle issues that make Jadine profoundly distanced from Son. ... Son truly knows himself and his background whereas Jadine does not due to her being raised by a completely different family than the social norms of her race. ...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6