Furthermore, the similarities between America and South Africa prior to American radical change in social policy seemed to prove that significant intra-white conflict threatened political stability and hence nation-state consolidation, legal racial domination was used to unify whites by excluding blacks. ... Recent scholarship on "race " has rejected the view that race is a natural or biological division among human beings, but more on the emphasis instead as a social construction, and hence its historical variable, meanings. ... In America, despite the ending of slavery, northern and souther...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The reason for this was that social and religious custom did not approve or look kindly upon women or girls being in public with an uncovered head. ... Human waste was a big issue because no one would clean up the outhouses or chamber pots. ... Instead of a meetinghouse being the center of the community, the waterways and roads became a place of social life a brief moment for colonists to sit back and relax was very rare and very savored. ...

• Word Count: 3125
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• Grade Level: High School

PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER The book offers a variety of social commentary, especially on race-related issues. ... RACIAL ISSUES DISCUSSED IN THE BOOK While Grisham critizises numerous aspects of the American legal system and the society in general, the most prominent issues are race-related. ... Recent studies have proved this ongoing trend towards self-inflicted segregation of races in the US a social reality. ... " (Grisham: 200) Keeping this in mind is important when considering the current, real upsurge of the Ku Klux Klan, which is also largely driven by the exploitation of critical issu...

• Word Count: 4938
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The continuing significance of the issue of sexual abuse is evident in the works of some recent historians of slavery. ... Having put a limit, would have placed slaves two different social status, and would have threatened the master's absolute power over his female slaves. ... Generalizing the law of protection and implementing it over slaves, meant a risk of making both owner and slave at an almost equal social level and would make their idea of ownership pointless, knowing there is no true ownership when there is no total control. ... Other issues that came forth made the situati...

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Controversy arises when the issue of possible causes of, and also solutions to, these variations are discussed. ... It is, however, negligent to simply focus on these issues when examining the proposal of Professor Butler. ... Second, "the crime and delinquency rates of incarceration, and rates of arrest and of victimization of those who move away from these slums are indistinguishable from whites of the same social class."13 This fact suggests that socioeconomic factors are very important in the existence of crime. ... He asserts that discrimination and segregation deprive Blacks of adequate ...

• Word Count: 3584
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Black prisons were at the forefront of social criticism in issues of race and class. ... Prisoners such as Eldridge, Cleaver and George Jackson fostered the liberation ideology and the development of a black consciousness and revealed radical critiques of the American social order. ... Black political and social activists within prisons were important because they provided an in depth criticism of the American criminal Justice system. ... Imprisonment has become the response of first resort too far too many of the social problems that burden people who are ensconced in poverty. ... When pr...

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All of us, who might have probed space, cured cancer, or built industries, were, instead, black victims of the White's social system (Malcolm 1). ... The author believes that the Islamic religion is likely to change the social problems of the American society. ... In his career as an influential activist, the author attempts to employ the Islamic religion in changing the divine, political, economic and social wellbeing amongst the African-Americans. ...

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From being sexually molested by the white colonizer to serving as a maid in a white man's family, nurturing their kids while her own kids were starving and were being neglected, a black woman would be constantly socially manipulated and physically ravished. ... The movement demanded reforms on issues such as women suffrage, voting rights, equal wages, and domestic violence. During the Feminist Movement, a need for the term "Womanism" arose, as the movement, which was mainly led by the upper and the middle-class white women promoting social change in the form of women's suff...

• Word Count: 3403
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• Grade Level: High School

It was the nonfiction books - Notes of a Nation Son (1955), Nobody Knows My Name (1961), and The Fire Next Time (1963) - "that secured his reputation as an important American writer and social critic" (http://www.africana.com, pg. 1). ... Baldwin's knife-edged criticism of the failed promises of American democracy, and the consequent social injustices, is unrelenting and demonstrates a piercing understanding of the function of blacks in the white racial imagination" (http://www.africana.com, pg. 2). ...

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However, it is astonishing that people do not believe that the political and social dynamics that purport to color blindness would create a new caste system- the one all Americans live in today. ... Civil rights activist argued that socioeconomic inequality coupled with racism produced crippling poverty and social issues. ... He of ten repeated the story of a Chicago "welfare queen" with "80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards," whose "tax free income alone is over $150,000.... However, at the time less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as th...

• Word Count: 4144
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Life in the ghettos of the big industrialised cities was characterised by social discrimination and de facto se-gregation. ... The masses in the northern ghettos were frustrated and hopeless because of the social discrimination and de facto segregation they experienced daily. ... Like his father he became a "social activist pastor" joining the NAACP and the Alabama Council on Human Relations, and also became very popular in the black community because of his skills. go to top The Civil Rights Movement After decades of being treated as inferior human beings who were confronted daily with ...

• Word Count: 3965
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• Grade Level: High School

The ever-present theme of hate in the book adds to its power and impact, but because Richard Wright in a sense gets carried away with this theme, it distracts the reader from the social issues that the author was most determined to draw into the light. ... By completely violating his social restrictions, he is able for the first time to feel like he is somewhat in control of his destiny. ... The white people and Communists in the book are also flat stereotypes, and have no capacity to understand blacks as human beings with a complex social structure. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Divided We Fall John Davis, a 28 year old African-American software engineer who has an annual income of $110,000, waits for a real estate agent in front of a beautiful two-story house in Kirkwood. He owns a small software company called Hi-Tex that is located only a couple of blocks from his present North County home. His ten month old business has grown very rapidly and he is ready to buy a more substantial home. As he waits, he looks at the house and visualizes his wife pruning prize-winning roses in the garden that is in front of the house, and his two boys playing in the sprinkle...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... The steady loss of orientation of the social and political position of African Americans in America and the growing exodus of blacks from their homes in the south to the northern cities are issues that the Harlem writers tried to work through in their stories and poems. ...

• Word Count: 4309
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School