...Racism towards Asian American immigrants began long before the actual internment itself. Some of the American people and media, specifically on the west coast, were paranoid the Japanese Americans might launch an attack inside the country to complement the Pearl Harbor attack. In a letter directed to the President's private secretary, James H. Rowe, Jr. mentioned this internment could be unconstitutional and based on public hysteria (“FDR and Japanese American Internment,” 1941-1942, p. 7) . The laws directed toward Asian American immigrants in the late 1800's, the hysteria that Japanese Americans were taking American citizens farmers' land and business and the paranoia that some Japanese Americans may launch an additional attack reached its climax when permission was given to relocate and closely monitor thousands of Japanese Americans against their...
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...changes. Texas used to be very conservative, indeed, by the Alamo fight, the racism with immigrants and so on. However, the new Texans generations seems more open than their older generations used to be. This generation is more open- minded. They accept the differences between culture, races and genders. But in voting, we can barely say anything because not all of the Texans vote and not all of the vote...
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...mountains at Sutter's Mill, near Coloma, California starting the California Gold Rush. This event catalyzed the immigration of Chinese workers into the U.S to become laborers working in the gold mines of California. As the Chinese population in the U.S, especially the west coast, grew, racism towards the Chinese grew because of the difficulty of Chinese immigrants to assimilate into American culture especially because of their inability and lack of resources to learn the English language. This caused Chinese immigrants to become concentrated into areas staying close to other Chinese families creating their own close-knit communities which were eventually called “China Towns” where Chinese tradition, culture, and lifestyle, were displayed openly as their communities were very isolated from American culture and lifestyle....
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... Xenophobia is a fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or alien. Pre-reflective gut racism is basically xenophobia, but it is xenophobia of a group or person that you have never came in contact with. Many people, especially people from a segregated community or a community with little cultural influence from outside or someone who has not spent time with people from other social groups, have Pre-reflective gut racism. A good example would be a small town in the middle of nowhere where they have never left would tend to have more Pre-reflective gut racism. Pre-reflective gut racism is also used in stereotypes against other people, for example "All catholic priests are child molesters." many people that say this have probably not even met a catholic priests and have made an assumption. It is often associated with the unknown because people have no experience with something new, so they automatically fear it. Pre-reflective gut racism is one of the most common racisms, and it is usually the first kind of racism one will have. Examples of Pre-reflective gut racism that I have experienced because I am from California have been "Do most people surf, do you surf?" "So you're a liberal". Hollywood makes California look like a place of beaches college parties, surfers, and money. The media does a great job of promoting racism because most people see it on the news so much. If they see a black person rob a store they start to think they black people...
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...interact with, they could really learn a lot. Since taking this class I have learned so much about the struggles that different cultures are faced with and it is so disturbing because it is something that they cannot even change, it is just who they are. Since our country is so diverse and we have so much “different”, we certainly have a lot of prejudice and discrimination that we need to work on. Some people would say it is because they are comfortable with their ways; I say it is just fear and ignorance. Growing up I lived in Elk Grove, California. It was a somewhat smaller town at the time and mostly consisted of Caucasian Americans. I am half Caucasian, or a mix of Italian and German, and my other half is Ecuadorian; Quito, Ecuador in South America. I was blessed enough to have an open hearted family where I never even knew what racism was until I started to see it first hand in school. In high school is where I really saw stereotyping and racism. Everyone hung out in different groups; the way the person dressed, the race the person was, even by how well they were doing in school. I never really thought anything of until taking this class where I have sparked a big interested in learning about my own culture. This cultural diversity course has taught me to look at things from a bigger picture, to always take a step back and...
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...them, it shed light in important issues that many can relate to. Rap in the U.S first started in the Bronx in the 1970s by Dj Kool Herc. Rap through out time became a very popular genre that many people of all races listened to. Many rappers not only rapped about money and their life style but they rapped about important issues like racism that affected many people then and even today. Rapper Tupac and groups Public Enemy and N.W.A were among many that did. Rap is one important way to bring to light issues people are facing in society because you don’t have to be a certain race to listen to rap and even though a rapper could talk about issues that African Americans many can learn from it. To a great extent rap protest against institutional racism and inform people about what it was like being black in America....
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...Racism is caused by many factors, and the effects are mild to serious. The dictionary defines racism as “a belief in superiority of a particular race; prejudice based on this”(oxford 118). I. Racism is caused by many factors. A. The family of an individual can influence a child’s view on other races. B. Television and movies affect the way people view racism. C. Friends and peers influence young people. II. Racism can lead to many things. A. Racism can lead to such things as hate crimes. 1. “A hate crime is a crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the property that is the object of a crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin etc.(Altchiller 17)”. 2. Sept 15, 1963 a 13 year old boy was killed by two white youths. B. There are many people that have lost their lives true out history because of racism. 1. “Jan 30, 1956 a bomb explodes in Montgomery Alabama, home of reverent Martin Luther King (Altchiller 17). 2. “March 16. The Jewish Community Center in Nashville, Tennessee, is dynamited (Altchiller 29).” C. Not even famous people safe from racism. 1. “April 11, 1956 six “KKK” members assault singer Nat “King” Cole during a performance at Birmingnan, Alabama, municipal auditorium (Altchiller 28).” III. Racism is still a very large part of our society. A. “May 9. In Rutherfordton North Carolina, two men with...
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...Race is classification of humans into distinct populations or groups by factors such as heritable phenotypic characteristics or geographic ancestry. This often influenced by and correlated with traits such as appearance, culture, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. In the beginning of last century the term race was often used, in its taxonomic sense, to denote genetically divergent human populations which can be marked by common phenotypic traits. This is still used in our day for forensic anthropology (when analyzing skeletal remains), biomedical research, and race-based medicine as proxy for geographic ancestry with some reliability. In addition it is used in law enforcement to describe the closest picture of wanted suspect. Human classification on the basis of physical traits is difficult because factors such as invasions, migrations, and mass deportations have produced a heterogeneous world population. Nevertheless, by limiting the criteria to such traits as skin pigmentation, colour and form of hair, shape of head, stature, and form of nose, most anthropologists historically agreed on the existence of three relatively distinct groups: the Caucasoid, the Mongoloid, and the Negroid. “Criticism of the idea that there are clearly recognizable racial types does not imply that all human populations are uniform or that population cannot be grouped into larger units that, among themselves, have certain similarities” James C King (1981). The Caucasoid is characterized as pale...
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...Close Window Print Window Racism and Schools Author: D. E. Campbell Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall Students of different ethnic groups (Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, African Americans, and European Americans) learn to read at dramatically different rates in our schools. The ethnic group you belong to makes a substantial difference in school achievement. Mexican Americans leave school at a higher rate than other Hispanics, and Hispanics drop out at a higher rate than do non-Hispanic Whites (Ramirez & de la Cruz, 2003). There has been a dramatic increase in the rate of segregation of Black and Latino students from White students in the nation’s public schools (Frey, 2006; Orfield & Lee, 2007). We are becoming a more divided nation. The reason for this is relatively straightforward: Schools for poor children and children of color are inadequately secure, staffed, and funded. Economic choices—for example, to unequally and inadequately fund schools—produce most of the differences in achievement that are used as evidence of racial superiority and inferiority. In May of 2001, a coalition of civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit (Williams v. California) that documented the deplorable and even unsafe and unsanitary conditions in many of California’s schools that serve large numbers of students of color. What causes these unequal conditions? Among the causes is a sustained pattern of underfunding of these schools. These are deliberate decisions...
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...American History X is featured film directed by Tony Kaye and takes place in Venice California in 1998. The audience for this movie is for a history class learning about segregation or for a political science course or simply anyone who wants to watch a drama film. The movie was intended to show the segregation and discrimination between colored people, immigrants and white people. Some of the phrases said in the film were blunt and obscure but in the era the movie took place at racism was performed out in public everywhere. There was a major separation between the colored and white people specifically in this movie. This film is realistic because up to this day this world still deals with racism. It has stopped in areas such as public schools, home communities and drinking out of the same water fountain. In the film the white American’s praised for Hitler as if he was a God or someone of high recognition. Many of the characters represented him by carrying a tattoo of the swastika symbol. The entire movie had a racial hatred towards black Americans. The same issues one deals with today are the same issues dealt with in American History X. Some of the movie scenes in the film are quite disturbing especially in the beginning when the main character Deryek abuses a young black man in the front of his home. It makes one wonder why are there people with such hatred towards others simply for the color of one’s skin, it is not fair. The era in which the movie takes place fits perfectly...
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...Terrence Williams Racism in the United States Despite constant efforts, new rules and regulations, racism is still alive in the United States. Through the years we have seen people like Martin Luther King Jr. come along and try to change the way things are by showing peace. Others like Malcolm X came along and tried to show that we were all equal by force. Regardless of which ever way was the correct way to go about things, we have gotten to a point where things are somewhat integrated. Although we are integrated and not dealing with the same problems there were 50 years ago, there are still those who do not like this new form of integration. In the state of Texas there are 62 documented hate groups. I can honestly say that the relatively high number didn’t surprise me. I actually wouldn’t have been surprised if the number was higher. Coming from California I heard often that Texas was different than California. In that people hadn’t came to accept integration as graciously as they had back home. They didn’t tell me this to scare me but more to prepare me for the new lifestyle I was about to embark in. I listened to them only to get this assignment and learn that California has more hate groups than Texas. One of the hate groups in Texas known as the ‘European-American Unity and Rights Organization’ was founded in 2000. The group was created by David Duke to help protect the rights and heritage of European Americans. Another group in Texas known as ‘Blood and Honour’...
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...“It comes out of a desire to win votes. And in that sense… It’s racism as a strategy...it’s the decision to achieve one’s own ends, here winning votes, by stirring racial animosity.” Ian Haney Lopez the writer of the book “Dog Whistle Politics”, a professor of law at the University of California, and an expert of racial justice in America, sums up what Dog Whistle Politics is. In the 2016 primary election, both candidates used dog whistles, but the most controversial candidate, Donald J. Trump, used as many dog whistles as he could. Trump used Dog Whistles in his tweets, speeches and conversations to win the 2016 Presidential race. In the 2016 general presidential election the winner Donald Trump presented a large amount of great speeches...
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...66 percent of Arabs live in 10 states with 33 percent living in California, Michigan, New York and New Jersey (Hassoun, 2014). At least 89 percent of Arab Americans have a high school diploma and over 45 percent have a Bachelor’s degree or higher and 18 percent have a post-graduate degree. In comparison only 28 percent of Americans have a Bachelors degree and 10 percent have a post-graduate degree, on average (Arab American Institute, 2014). Arab Americans are very active in United States politics. Two Arab Americans, Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. and Spencer Abraham, were appointed to George W. Bush’s first term Cabinet. The nations longest serving Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, was also Arab American (Arab American Institute, 2014). Socially, most Arab Americans fit right into the communities in which they live. Arab Americans are mostly of Muslim faith, but there are some Chaldeans, Catholic Arabs, in America. Arab Americans are often stereotyped as being terrorists, which is not true. In fact, most Arab Americans are against terrorism and believe in peace among all people. Racism is the belief that race is the primary determination in human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a certain race (Merriam-Webster, 2014). Racism affects diversity in that it creates a limit on the racial backgrounds that are acceptable by one race. Racism prevents diversity from ever forming because it keeps races segregated...
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...to a head and boiling point when the staff of a magazine stages a degrading offensive Halloween party to tease and laugh at the black community with no remorse for their feelings. It shows the real life modern version of racism as it “doesn’t exist” but it is very alive and real unfortunately. 2. This movie was very disturbing to me and it reminded me of when I first moved here from California in the 90’s as a Mexican American with the struggles of racism and ignorance of stupidity and prejudice as I was the only Mexican at my high school and I had to fight my way through it and educate my class mates. 3. Coco Conners, she shows the struggle of how black people and woman struggle to survive and float above the hateful racial stereotypes of black woman and trying to fit in the “white world” and be accepted into society 4. Most interesting:--- that this movie can bring light to the topic of racism in a educated and tasteful manner of a movie to show the reality and struggle that minorities face every day, and to that I say bravo and thank you to you ma’am. Most disturbing:--- that stuff like this is still so real and common and true, with everything else in this world that is going on we as people still regress to the older stereotypes of racism and...
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...Association, however, repeatedly told us that they perceived the use of Indian mascots, logos, caricatures, and similar images by our schools as a clear form of institutional racism” (Grier 2005: 51). In this paper we will discuss the controversial impact of the Native American stereotype used as mascots. In the early 1900’s when the threat of colonization was abolished Americans started to use the Native American mascot to show their acknowledgement of their struggles. Although this was symbolic it has been an ongoing controversy within schools and sports. California is the second highest state that uses the most Native American imagery and symbols. The importance of this contemporary issue is an ongoing debate in California that has impacted the true history of Native Americans and the battles they went through. The truth is crucial because their imagery and interpretation is misunderstood in American history. In the early 1900’s it became acceptable to use Native American imagery for advertisement. “One of the reasons why most Americans find the mascots unremarkable and do not turn a critical eye toward the mascots is because of the prevalence of similar images throughout U.S. popular culture” (King, et al 2002:391). Although years later these symbolic images became a form of institutional racism. Many people are against these images that are portrayed in todays society because they believe it portrays negative stereotypes. “Such imagery is seen as affecting Native American...
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