...Suzan Shown Harjo remembers going to the store with her grandfather in El Reno, Oklahoma. At the age of 6, Harjo was a victim of discrimination while purchasing a cold beverage. The storeowner demanded Harjo and her grandfather to leave. The owner replied, “No black redskins in here”. After the incident occurred, Harjo felt afraid because of the color of her skin. The term redskin is a derogatory and offensive word to insult a Native American. Native Americans have been an important and beneficial part of our history. Before Christopher Columbus set sailed, Native Americans lived peacefully and thrived. Native Americans have been inflicted with agony of discrimination since Columbus landed in 1492. Now an adult, Harjo began a mission for Native Americans so they shouldn’t face discrimination like she once did. She focused part of her work on the removal of Native Americans as mascots. In an interview, Harjo explains that the Washington Redskins is a prime example of an offensive mascot. She refers redskin to the R-word because she believes it has the same meaning as the N-word. (http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/04/native-american-mascots-pride-or-prejudice/) When searching the definition in Merriam-Webster, it’s defined as an offensive word and shouldn’t be used. In...
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...were the majority race in most of the locations throughout U.S. History. The United States is very diverse with many different races but the whites have been the most dominante. Some American ancestors came from Europe, Africa, or Asia. The ancestors all depend on how long the family has lived in the United States, the longer they live the more diverse their ancestors will be. Many of the white race has ancestors that are of the European decent because the European immigrants have been in the United States for over 400 years. My ancestors are Native American and German. According to the text book Germans, Irish, English and Italians are some of the biggest ancestorial groups. • What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? Some of the larger minoritie groups in the United States history would be the African American race, Native American race, and Asian Americans. The ancestors of the African American race would have come from South America and the African continent. For Native Americans, their ancestors would have come from North American. The Asian American ancestors would have come from the Asian continent. The African Americans would have become a minority when the white race brought them over to use them as slaves. Each of these groups became a minority when they moved or migrated to the United States. I say...
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...Racism and Discrimination in America According to MerriamWebster.com Racism is a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. As for discrimination it is the prejudice or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment. If these words exist in the dictionary it is bound to exist in the real world, and it does. Millions of minorities today are treated immorally just because of the color of their skin. People treat them as if they’re trash; people who don’t deserve to be treated humanely. In the US especially, African American, Latinos, and Native Americans have been the target of these racist and discrimination. To begin, African Americans...
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...|Assimilation |Adapting or conforming to the group of people. | Part II Answer the following questions in 150 to 350 words each: • Throughout most of U.S. history in most locations, what race has been the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group? Throughout the most of the U.S. history in most locations American White race has been the majority with more than 300 million people living in the United States which includes non-Hispanic/Latino and Hispanic/Latino. American White race are also the majority in forty nine out of the fifty states with the exception being Hawaii. The most common ancestries are traced from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The United State is a very diverse country with both racially and ethnically groups. According to the United States Census Bureau White Americans with White American including non-Hispanic/Latino and Hispanic/Latino hold 72% of the population in the United States as of 2010. The White American is the majority in each region. This has been a very...
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...Sherman Alexie is an American novelist, filmmaker, short story writer, and poet. He uses his personal experiences as a Native American to write raw and unvarnished texts that bring forth complicated emotions. You can see an example of Alexie’s unique writing style in the quote above where he boldly states the way violence takes place in his story. As a writer, Alexie targets young adults and teens who may be struggling in their younger years just as he has. Throughout his life, even as a young boy, Alexie had been dealing with struggles and problems in his life. At six months old, Alexie underwent a brain surgery which had a high risk of death or mental disability if he survived (The...
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...people included in the Westward expansion were Americans and the Native Americans that were being poorly treated by the Americans. Although the Americans didn’t treat the Native Americans well, they also unfairly treated Mexicans and Chinese. During the Westward expansion in around the 1800s, people moved west to conquer new land including the lands of the Native Americans, Chinese, and Mexicans. They did this because they believed that moving west was their duty. This belief is called Manifest Destiny. When the Americans went to conquer these lands, Native Americans, Chinese, and Mexicans faced racism, harsh and unjust treatment, and discrimination. The experience of Native Americans in America during the...
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...in search of new opportunities. • What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? Some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history are Native American and African Americans. Native Americans who are the first to come to North America across the Bering Strait from Asia were the first to arrive here and one of the biggest minority groups in regards to social standards. Native in 1871 were declared American Indians by the federal government and forced to move to reservations, adapt to Christianity in place of their traditional religions, and schools where taught English in place of ancestral tongues. African Americans arrived in the Americas along with the first European explorers from Africa, but short after became subordinate because of the color of their skin by 1776 it was legal in every state for them to work as slaves. In 1863 slavery was abolished and by 1865 Congress banned it everywhere in the country. • In what ways have laws been used to enforce discrimination? Provide examples. These laws were intended against which racial minorities?...
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...Racism in America American racism has been an issue since the time of colonial period all the way to the time of slave trade and slavery. America is still one of the leading countries where racism has been practiced to a larger extent from the colonial periods where it was sanctioned and heavy punishments were administered to the offenders. America being a country of long history, it has people from different races namely; Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latin Americans and Anglo Americans (Rhoads, 2005). The long struggle of these races against American racism has allowed them to be obliged in matters such as literacy, immigration, voting rights, owning citizenship, acquiring land and liberty. In reading American history, many people have suffered from racism and religious intolerance which led to xenophobic in 1938 (Price, 2004). This was mainly an attack which targeted the non Protestants such as the Jews, Italian Americans among others who were affiliated to the Roman Catholic. This people among other immigrants in America suffered from discrimination in the highest order during the early days when anti-discrimination legislations had not been passed. America has over the time structured its institution to suit the tendency of racism in various ways. Slavery was an issue characterized by racism and the Indian war. This was meant to discriminate some races against the Americans hence denying them opportunities and privileges in the American society. Other...
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...Even though the California Gold Rush may seem beneficial, it was actually highly violent. The Gold Rush of 49 resulted in many deaths. Over 100,000 people ended up dying because of the gold rush. Because of this, the California Gold Rush has proven violent. According to History.com, they showed that the causes of murder, discrimination, and rape has gone higher due to the Gold Rush and that the American Miners killed over 100,000 people with, “During the Gold Rush, violence against foreign miners increased, with beatings, rapes and even murders becoming commonplace” (History.com). The writer shows that the immigrants who arrived in California have faced severe murders and discrimination. One thing they prove is how murder was extremely common...
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...whole race, or the life of a person. In Montana 1948, Marie, an Indian girl, is a tragedy caused by racism of white people who show prejudice in different levels against Native Americans. Racism is a theme that the author clearly wants to present in his novel. In this paper I will explore racism and analyze its influence to the plot and characters of the novel. This novel shows how racism affects individual's behaviors. Among the three people who show racism—Wesley, Julian, Frank—-their prejudice influences the plot in different ways. Wesley's prejudice to Native is much like an inherent discrimination from a high-status person to a low-status person, which contains less malice compared to the other two characters. Wesley's racism actually does not have significant impact on advancing the plot; however, Julian's discrimination distorts his judgment to the abusive behaviors of his son, Frank. For his prejudice to Native Americans and preference to Frank, he weakens the severity of his son's crime and send his employee to release Frank from the basement of Wesley's house with violence. Last, Frank' racism is more like a contempt of Native Americans's social status and human rights, and results in his abusive behaviors toward Indian girls and the ignorance of their human rights. His Hennessey 2 discrimination is not depicted expressly but causes the struggle that derived from divergent attitudes to Frank's crime among family members. Although Wesley is generally depicted...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix E Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Racial formation |The process where individuals are divided and categorized by mutable rules into different racial | | |categories. | |Segregation |The physical and social separation of categories of people. | |De jure segregation |The physical and social separation of categories of people by law | |Pluralism |A state in which people of all racial and ethnic categories have about the same overall social | | |standing | |Assimilation |Is the process by which minorities gradually adopt cultural patterns from the dominant majority | | |population. | Part II Answer the following questions in 150 to 350 words each: • Throughout most of U.S. history in most locations, what race has been the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most...
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...country on what profited them the most. The Caucasian race does not hold the majority race by their numbers in population, but on the grounds of their social standards in the United States. • What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? Some of the larger racial minorities in the United States history are Native Americans and African Americans. The first to come to North America across the Bering Strait was from Asia were the first to arrive here and one of the biggest minority groups was the Native Americans. When it comes down to social standards, the Native Americans land was stolen and they were forced to move to reservations. Adapting to Chrisianity in place of their traditional religions, and schools were taught English in place of ancestral tongues. The common ancestrical background for African Americans is Africa. African Americans became subordinate because of their color of...
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...ties from Great Britain. • What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? Some of the larger racial minorities in the United States history are Native Americans and African Americans. The common Ancestral background for a Native American (Eurasian ). Native Americans were significant when earlier European settlers coming to the new world for a fresh start stole the land of the Native Americans. African Americans Ancestral background is Africa or African. African Americans were significant when they were capture in from Africa and brought to American where they were to be sold as slaves because of their numbers at the time made them the minority. • In what ways have laws been used to enforce discrimination? Provide examples. These laws were intended against which racial minorities? Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. The Jim Crow law was a law that was used to enforce discrimination in the south during the time of slavery and segregation. The Jim Crow laws were used to prevent...
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...obstacles they may encounter. The conception that African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, all minority groups, are created equal in the land of opportunity...
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...Native American Oppression Santucee Bell Case Western Reserve University Native American Oppression Introduction & Focal Population Imagine living in a world that consistently devalues your existence and is heavily populated with individuals who are quick to use and abuse your resources, but are slow to share the wealth that is accumulated from those resources. How would you feel? Unfortunately, certain populations do not have to visualize the disparity that is pictured above. This is because inequity is one of the most demoralizing social issues that plague America today. The worst thing about inequity is the fact that it continues to disproportionately burden individuals who are categorize as being minority in today’s society. This is especially true for the American Indian/Alaska Native population. This population continues to be one of the most vulnerable minority groups. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010 (2011), “American Indian or Alaska Native refer to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central American) and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment” (Humes, Jones, & Ramirez, 2011, p. 3). 2,475,956 out of 308, 745,538 people that live in America are believed to be American Indian/Alaska Native, including those who report affiliations with tribes and South and Central American Indian groups (Humes et. al,, 2011, p. 4). This number is...
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