However, these two scholars disagreed on strategies for African American social and economical progress. ... During the time between 1895 and 1920, black Americans experienced many social, economic and political difficulties. ... He encouraged blacks to become educated and to work in agriculture and industry, to accept their second-class status in American society. ... He believed that only though education could blacks gain status and that Washington's idea promoted black submission to whites. ... In his mind, this step was as good as the Black community telling the white community that ...

• Word Count: 1390
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The social context of prejudice and discrimination because of race or ethnic background is common throughout the world. ... Racism still persists in the U.S. despite a civil rights movement of more than 50 years duration and major social change. The myth of race, however, remains a powerful force in social life. ... The key to minority status in the community is that a group is defined socially within the community; and on that basis, denied access to the goods and services of that community (e.g. residence, schools, jobs, etc ), simply because of the group's identity. ... Characteri...

• Word Count: 1328
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

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. ... She is openly concerned about appearance and status. ... 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. Even he too is concerned with image and status. Alice is his woman he can show off, and his car is a symbol of his higher status than most. ...

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

He secretly longs for the comfort and privacy of his grandfather's mansion on the old family plantation, despite his avowed repudiation of his family's status as former slaveholders. ... She lives modestly and looks back longingly on their family history, reminiscing about the family plantation as well as the political and social influence held by previous generations of the family. ... He is far more concerned with class status in relation to black people and makes this apparent in the type of men and women he befriends. ... Although Julian's mother may be overtly racist, Ju...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To calm their fear, whites demand more police presence to ensure social control in black communities. ... Credit ratings may also vary even for blacks and whites with comparable economic status. ... "Socioeconomic status and acculturation" determine social mobility (Charles, 2003, p. 170). ... Overall, consideration of the three theories results to fear based on racial stereotyping, individual and institutional prejudice and discrimination, and little improvement in the socioeconomic status of blacks as causes of the persisting racial residential segregation. ...

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

"For 200 years slavery was a mighty social, economic and political institution in Louisiana. ... Armand is recognized to be of high society in Louisiana, and this social status secluded him from the reality of where he came from. ... Armand did not care about Desiree's past or his because of their social status, but the birth of Desiree's baby leads Armand to face his true self, without labels, just as the real world views race. ... In the nineteenth century women could not reach their full potential because of social restrictions. ...

• Word Count: 1578
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Thus, the status of African American life has changed insignificantly since the Civil Rights Movement. ... The Movement failed to eliminate social, physiological, and economic discrimination against African Americans. ... But as evidenced through America's past, legislature does not necessarily set the precedent for social change. ... These are just a few examples that display the social inequalities in regard to African Americans. ... To this day, only political gain has been achieved, leaving American Americans socially and economically unequal. ...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The idea of race differences had become an instrumental part of American social structure. ... "Race" had become a social phenomenon. ... 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. ... Only abuse and prosecution laid in wait for those who disagreed with the status quo. ...

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

Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ... They are still slaves to a white-bred social system that silences them. ... The narrator criticizes that Jody achieves his god-like status just because no one else has the nerve to take matters into their own hands. ... Turner strive for the status of the white people, but also for the "unattainable" ph...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The feminist analysis allows us, as current readers, to judge, contrast and to compare the different social values and status of women in the Elizabethan times. ... In many examples, Othello was written in its original context where it portrayed gender inequality and reflected the status and non-existent rights of women in society. ...

• Word Count: 1777
• Approx Pages: 7

This way, white plantation owners could assert their superiority over blacks and maintain the same social positions that had been in place before the civil war. ... White did not want to see blacks entering their realm of business and politics and Washington's approach pleased them because to the white upper class, it kept blacks in the service industry and well within their expected social class. ... Dubois thought that the "Talented Tenth," that is, the most educated Ten percent of the black population, would raise the status of all black peoples. ... The movements within the black comm...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5

He was born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a place where social and economic activities were reinforced by "primary democracy"- all of its citizens had a right to be heard. ... The new social science of his time was based on seeking truth of human history through an examination of historical documents; therefore DuBois adopted this new method and as a researcher, conducted many studies including one on the urbanization of blacks in the North (The Philadelphia Negro) and the organization of blacks in the South (The Atlanta University Publications). ... DuBois believed that so...

• Word Count: 1561
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In response to these changes, the states organized efforts to limit the political, social, and economic status of the freed slaves. ... Happening in the beginning of the story well before the riot, the meeting symbolizes the strictness of past social policies regarding race. ...

• Word Count: 1273
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He verbally contested the government and, in response to his resistance and the social and political climate at that time, the United States passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, forbidding racial discrimination in "public accommodations" and race and sex discrimination in employment (www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html). ... Affirmative action may inadvertently give an impression that minority individuals receive a job or admission to a college due to their minority status, rather than their own merit. This, in turn, may make the individual feel excluded and possibly not worthy of what he or she...

• Word Count: 1695
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He verbally contested the government and, in response to his resistance and the social and political climate at that time, the United States passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, forbidding racial discrimination in "public accommodations" and race and sex discrimination in employment (www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html). ... Affirmative action may inadvertently give an impression that minority individuals receive a job or admission to a college due to their minority status, rather than their own merit. This, in turn, may make the individual feel excluded and possibly not worthy of what he or she...

• Word Count: 1695
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the south, Reconstruction meant rebuilding the economy, establishing new state and local governments and a new social structure between whites and newly freed African Americans. ... African Americans desperately wanted to move up in social standing and become educated. ... The black man was viewed as being part of a system where they were thrown into the bottom of the social classes with no legal status." ...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... A social and economic struggle inevitably accompanied African Americans during and after the Civil Rights Movement in Miami. The socioeconomic status indicators, such as family income, employment, education, and housing are one way of demonstrating continued Black subordination in Miami. ...

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

"Race is a cultural construct, but one with deadly social causes and consequences."... These things include but are not limited to a good education, fair housing, power, good jobs, and social status. ...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Anne writes about the unspeakable treatment that was socially imposed on African Americans, otherwise known as the Jim Crowe laws. ... The financial status of Anne's family always revolved around a triangle. ... This is extremely crucial moment in her life as to why she has this gift to question values and other social anomalies within her neighborhood. ...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Discrimination is defined as different treatment of others based solely on their membership in a socially distinct group or category, such as race, ethnicity, sex, religion, age, or disability. ... The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and other constitutional amendments that followed changed the legal status of African-Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1254
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On the other hand, Appiah describes intrinsic racists "as people who differentiate morally between members of different races because they believe that each race has a different moral status, quite independent of the moral characters entailed by its racial essence" (Appiah 2012, 630). ... Appiah believes that people who have cognitive incapacity are "people who are unable to give up beliefs that play a part in justifying the special advantages we gain from our positions in social order- in particular, beliefs about the positive character of the class of people who share that pos...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People were divided based on class, status, religion and language. ... Depending on what race you are, your social, political, and economic ways of life can be effected. ... Language is socially inherited it does not exist apart from culture however it could spread far from where it started. ...

• Word Count: 2288
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The two people will never be able to get to know one another as anything more than a color or a status echelon. ... These boundaries that have been created on every social and economic level are not only boundaries created between people, but they are also boundaries created within people. One can never truly know themselves when they have exceedingly constricted boundaries such as prejudice, and when they have not given themselves the opportunity to venture beyond the accepted and comfortable social idea. ...

• Word Count: 1878
• Approx Pages: 8

In order to go beyond the objective extent of textbooks and documentaries, Twain continues to delve into the expansion of emotions felt by characters of all social statuses. ... In the beginning of Huck and Jim's journey, Huck promises not to turn Jim in, momentarily forgetting his social obligations to turn Jim in. ...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

International studies have shown that "a group's low ethnic status or position in a social structure" directly correlates to a group's significantly lower performance on standardized tests. ... These studies suggest that standardized test scores are unintentionally biased against Americans who suffer a lower position in the U.S. social structure, namely African-Americans and Hispanics. ...

• Word Count: 1760
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate