From years 1505 to 1870, the world underwent the largest forced migration in history. West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe, bound for America, appeared on the horizon, and their captains and sailor...

Da Bluez From years 1505 to 1870, the world underwent the largest forced migration in history. West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe, bound for America, appeared on the horizon, and their captains...

Improvement in Race Relations Race relations in the United States are much better now than they were when Toni Morrison wrote "A Slow Walk of Trees" 25 years ago. The United States prides itself in being considered the most diverse country in the planet. Living in Los Angeles, California, ...

In her book, Fair describes many significant ways in which people usedress, music, and sport to challenge the inherited social order, and toredefine race, ethnicity, gender, and class. The book covers the time fromthe end of WWII back to the 1990s. During that time, Zanzibar experiencedrapid...

The late twentieth century was a time of great turmoil in racial relations within the United States. Riots broke out in Los Angeles after the beating of Rodney King, and racial profiling was at an all time high with the LAPD's implementation of the CRASH force in a feeble attempt to rid Los An...

Tailgates as a Cultural Contact Zone "Arts of the Contact Zone" by Mary Louise Pratt is an article that talks about how critical and history-making it is when different cultures meet for the first time. She describes this moment with her coined phrase, the "contact zone". She gives the perfect exa...

In Adam Cornford\'s 1997 essay \"Colorless All-Color: Notes on White Culture,\" the writer makes the argument that white culture is more of an attitude and a set of ideas than a culture that has a long history and is based on race and customs. To make this argument Cornford applies the rhetorical ta...

The constraints described in "The Invisible Man" imply we live in a country that is divided by race, ethnicity, religion and class (prejudices towards differences). A person's life is then heavily shaped around these perimeters. Some in the minority unfortunately try to deny these barriers to e...

A Not Too Modest Proposal Racism is the combination of racial prejudice and power. Where most people look at racism as a kind of ugly brand of racial prejudice, we use this definition because it more accurately addresses the problems of race inequity in our country today. The biggest problem betwee...

Ever since Asian Americans had arrived in the United States, they had also been conceptually misrepresented and interpretive. The general misconception and way of thinking is often that all Asians look the same. Yet when distinctions are made between the ethnic groups, they are usually indistinguish...

Improvement in Race RelationsRace relations in the United States are much better now than they were when Toni Morrison wrote "A Slow Walk of Trees" 25 years ago.The United States prides itself in being considered the most diverse country in the planet. Living in Los Angeles, California, one of the ...

Since arriving on the shores of the United States, the experience of the African American individual has been a turbulent, convoluted struggle for full rights as citizens. Through the use of many strategies, blacks in the United States have reached parity with whites in terms of social and political...

While Jim Crow laws were devastating the lives of African Americans in the South, a massive amount of Southern musicians, spread the seeds of Jazz as far north as New York City. This new genre of music formed fractures in the walls of racial discrimination. One poor girl from Missouri conquered an e...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past ...

"Two Mexican men attacked and almost beaten to death. Both in critical condition in the hospital." "Chinese delivery man beaten to death in Queens neighborhood by teens, who say it was a 'prank gone bad'." "Police officer being questioned about racial profiling.&...

Political Implications of "Accordion Crimes" E. Annie Proulx's, "Accordion Crimes" takes an in-depth look at many various immigrant families' social, cultural, religious and ideological contributions to the American society and political system. Proulx details ea...

One of the foundations of this country is our multiculturalism and the "melting pot" of American society, the ironic side of that being the fact that throughout history, racism has been an ever present part of the American interaction with the world around it. It seems that every one of o...

It seems unfair that the pages of our history books or even the lecturers in majority of classrooms speak very little of the accomplishments of blacks. They speak very little of a period within black history in which many of the greatest musicians, writers, painters, and influential paragon'' e...

"Battle Royal""Battle Royal," by Ralph Ellison was a very difficult piece of literature for me to understand. As a little background information, Ellison was very much into music (228). He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on March 1, 1914 (221). Different themes are presented throughout this s...

The Effect of Multicultural Education on the Classroom Environment Today, teachers are faced with a growing number of diverse students in the classroom, each with their own ethnic and cultural background that influences the way each student learns. By the year 2015, the Anglo population will be...

So Similar But So Different- Wright and Hurston Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston were very similar in many ways. They saw different on a lot of issues however. They were both in different situations and handled those situations differently. In the following essay the similarities and differen...

We should look at the differences of the world and try to learn from them. All people have their good points and bad points. We live in a world that is not all white, all black, or not even all yellow. We live in a world where all races interact among themselves. The university in the United St...

Comedy is a social activity that services social conflict and social control. It has the ability to unify or disintegrate social groups. It can release tensions, anxieties and provide a non-violent outlet for dissent. No single theory can explain what humor is or how it works. Comedians are privileg...

Hate crimes has been a tragic part of American history. Hate crimes are violent acts consciously directed against people, property or organizations because of the group to which they belong are identified with. These crimes have also been associated with how long sentences should be for these c...

The American IdentityAmerica does not currently have an established identity. Since it is a very young country relative to others, America does not have the time to establish an identity. America's past has involved many fights for freedom from other nations as well as from within our own nation. ...