Some people have suggested that the employment system should work on a color-blind test (Plous). The color blind test is a method where race is not mentioned on applications. Employers determine how qualified an individual is by administering a test (Benoit). ... The color-blind test ultimately favors Caucasian people, even though it is meant to be fair. ... Caucasians usually come from better neighborhoods, translating to better schooling, better test scores, better dress, and a better overall image. ...

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Three years later, King's nonviolent tactics were put to their most severe test in Birmingham, Alabama during a mass protest for hair hiring practices, the establishment of a biracial committee, and the desegregation of department-store facilities. ... If black citizens wanted to vote, they were required to take a literacy test and a Constitution test. ... However, white citizens were not required to pass any tests or pay any fees, also infringing upon the equality of all people. ...

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This legislation, along with an executive order in 1965, helped blacks by forcing businesses receiving federal funds to stop using aptitude tests and other criteria that tended to discriminate against blacks ("affirmative action"). ... In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test scores and high school GPAs for the sake of diversity. ... At the University of Michigan, perhaps the finest public university next to Cal-Berkeley, "the admission rate exceeded 90% for all 'underrepresente...

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The above stated came forth through an acute critique and rejection of white psychology in terms of its methodological conclusions and the ideological premises it tests. ... (Pg. 443) Black psychology has set forth new definitions, conceptual models, and test theories that come from the heart of the Black experience. ...

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Archeologists used ground-piercing radars and other equipment to test the soil for unmarked graves to determine how many people are buried there. The tests picked up dozens, if not hundreds of bodies outside the cemetery ("Archaeologists"). ...

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After the Civil War, the United States began to unite again with the southern states that had seceded and then been defeated. During this period, called Reconstruction, African Americans, though no longer slaves, still were faced with discrimination, scorn, and ridicule. The prejudices towards black...

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Max Weber suggests that racial inequality deals with status and prestige. There are two different types of status in America; Achieved status which is a status that a person earns throughout their lifetime and ascribed status which is status that a person is born with. Status can lead to social diff...

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Affirmative Action In 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act which introduced affirmative action along with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Affirmative Action: Facts and Myths). This was during the time when blacks were emerging from the chains of segregation resulting from slav...

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In his attempt to certify the success of their latest responsibility, white men have employed the long tested strategy of divide and conquer, with a view to breaking the ranks of non-whites worldwide. ...

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In this story, postwar middle-American black communities use the image of Shirley Temple in the same way southern creoles created the infamous "paper bag test- to exclude darker skinned blacks from the higher tiers of African American society. ...

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This paper is going to support my position of affirmative action. I was not sure about my opinion of affirmative action until I researched the topic in depth. My evidence will support my idea that affirmative action is necessary because it follows the evolution of civil right s in the United State...

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What does the main character learn as the book progresses? In Phillip Gwynne's novel, Deadly Unna? the main character, Blacky learns many things as well as gaining an understanding of many important issues such as courage, belonging, tolerance of Black people (especially Aborigines) and the imp...

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Following the vicious and bloody battles of the Civil War, the South entered a period of uncertainty and chaos. No longer possessing the strength to continue with the practices of physical slavery, slave owners as well as the government were left scrambling. Unable to suppress a group they once had ...

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Langston Hughes was America's Jazz Poet, the chronicler of life in Harlem in the 1920s. Setting out to write about black Americans, Hughes created a body of work-poetry, fiction, journalism, essays, plays, and song lyrics. While decrying racism and the inequities it created for blacks and other mi...

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The test is how long the glances last, whether they become stares, with what intent they occur, whether they contain any degree of hostility or mockery, and to what extent connections, money, or mode of dress shield me in these situations. ...

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"Imagine for a just a moment, if you will, that the slaves who were brought to America weren't dark-skinned. Instead, white people and black people were both the same neutral skin color." Would the history of the world be different? Better yet, would Americans act differently? Unfortunately, we will...

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Ernest James Gaines is one of the most important African American authors of this century. (Benet's 365) He succeeds as a writer as well as a college English Professor at University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1983. Gaines was born on January 15, 1933 in Oscar Louisiana. He had a hard childhood whi...

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Affirmative Action: Pros and Cons Affirmative Action is defined as positive steps to enhance the diversity of some group, often to remedy the cumulative effect of subtle as well as gross expression of prejudice. It is the practice of giving preference to racial minorities or women when hiring em...

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"Racists found ways to circumvent the law and create other devices that made it difficult for the Freedman to vote or own farms of their own, devices such as Literacy tests, poll taxes, "grandfather clause", and eventual intimidation."...

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The early twentieth century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. The Progressive era was a time of immense change in America and American society. The progressives, as they called themselves, struggled to improve American society by working toward equality...

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Discrimination and prejudice were very common acts in the early and middle 1900's. Prejudice in this book is displayed by the acts of hate and misunderstanding because of someone's color. People of color were the majority that were treated unfairly. During this time in the southern states, black peo...

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The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. The Civil Rights movement was first and foremost a challenge to segregation. During the Civil...

• Word Count: 1907
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The Definition of America as seen in the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay America is a place that many people associate with equality, opportunity and the promise of a good life. This idea has existed for centuries and continues to be prevalent even today. When many people think...

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What is race? For many people, race is defined as the color of your skin, but in fact, this term has a variety of meanings. Some of these come up often in everyday life, as we discuss "the human race." Other meanings are used on government forms, as when Americans record which race they belong to fo...

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For years experts have argued over the topic of how evils we have committed in the past affect us currently. One specific evil that garners a large amount of attention is slavery. While some may argue that slavery no longer affects African-Americans, we still see small amounts of animosity even toda...

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