African immigration to the United States

For this class the title being called Immigration Rights, brought my attention due to myself being an immigrant I wanted to see how a class would talk and focus on this topic. The first quarter I was very excited to see that there were other types of people; race and culture wise.…

In addition to the need for security, pre-existing xenophobia fueled Japanese Internment. Since the foundation of the United States, the country has picked a different group of people to ostracize. The anti-Japanese sentiment roots towards the hatred for the Chinese people’s menial job takeover, which began during the Gold Rush. Americans were afraid that the Chinese, and eventually the Japanese, would steal all the jobs. This created a lot of hostility among working class Americans and even…

downward assimilation and upwards assimilation. I believe I chose upwards assimilation or the American culture over my parent’s culture. I also believe my parents decided to assimilate upwards while mixing in their own culture as well. As Cebulko states “other immigrants may experience mostly upward assimilation through selective acculturation, or by selectively combining norms and values of both the dominant society and the immigrant community” (226). My parents assimilate to the American…

Yet, for African-American prospective voters, the test was extremely complex. The test had very confusing questions that would give anyone a hard time. Most, if not all, of the questions were trick questions specifically designed to make the test taker give an incorrect response. As expected, a good number of them failed which disabled them from voting. These tests were given in states that were very much filled with racism, such as Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama(Rebecca Onion). Although…

a key dimension of both globalization and development, and international migration has become one of the foremost development topics of the 21st century. According to the United Nations, as of 2012, more than 215 million people live outside their countries of birth and over 700 million migrate within their countries. Every state has been touched by human mobility. Owusu-Ankomah (2006) argues that about two million Ghanaians migrated to far and near lands ostensibly to seek greener pastures…

Making America Hate Again To be able to vote is undoubtedly one of the greatest aspects about the United States of America. The ability to chose our leaders and practice a democracy is something citizens of other countries only dream of having. Because of this freedom, Americans should always vote during the elections, especially this year’s Presidential election. This election is an especially unique one; the Republican candidate is a businessman with no political experience, while the…

However, Latinos were working in agricultural and low paying jobs that other American workers do not have the audacity to work. In fact, if the US deported all illegal immigrant workers form the states there would be a shortage of supplies to meet the demand, especially, the cost of food would be unaffordable or costly. The other main factor for Latinos to emigrated to the US was the exploitation of workers in their homeland by corporate US companies…

The 19th century brought many industrial changes to the United States of America. These changes enticed millions of people to migrate from a variety of places such as Europe, Latin America, and Asia. There was also a lot of movement just within the United States. Thousands of African Americans traveled from the South to the developing northern cities. The amount of people living in these cities was phenomenal. The different temperaments and perceptions that all of these new people brought with…

In 1877 Rutherford Birchard Hayes is elected as president promising the end of the reconstruction era. Consequently one of the most important reforms in American history has officially failed its purpose which was to integrate the formerly slave population with equal rights, like white citizens. This event officially defines the start of the “Gilded age” and although the reconstruction era was over a different version of the reform was underway. Americas focus shifted towards the uncultivated…

safe”. Moreover, He faced many challenges, including doing menial jobs, living in filthy conditions, and being attacked physically. The challenges were mostly associated with racism and prejudice against not only African Americans, but people of other non-white races in the United States. However, he refused to be pushed behind by pond of desire and negativity. Then, as his days flourish in the country, he comes to the shift of thinking and the realization that through the effort of those who…