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    There is no question that in American society baseball is America’s pastime. Although, most American’s would argue that football has taken over as the most popular sport in America. But for those who truly admire the game, like me, would absolutely disagree. Watching two rival teams duel it out from the first pitch to the last, or a pitcher going for a no-hitter, nothing is more exciting. ''Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball,'' Jacques Barzun, the…

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    from Latin America has created an American society that struggles to find a true identity within a heterogeneous…

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    discrimination, and prejudice was at its height. Although slavery was abolished, whites and coloreds were still segregated. Being that whites were the superior group they were able to oppress the black community in different ways. Since privileged white Americans were the ones making the laws, the laws did not govern the people, they govern themselves. For instance, in the fifteenth Amendment states “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United…

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    but for many it’s a way to express themselves. To have someone sing a certain lyric or say a certain word that makes you just want to listen to it over and over again. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a key time for many artists, mostly African American artists. This was the time when the government was pushing drugs in and out of the projects to fund wars. There was no outspoken person to stand up and fight for his or her beliefs. “Gangster rap” came along and basically told the truth of…

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    For example, Clarence G. Contee remarks on how Dubois thought the Pan-African conferences were legitimate vehicles as a part of his ideology to effect social, economic and political changes in the oppressive conditions of the African and the Afro American. Nonetheless, Contee mentions that despite Dubois’ agenda to help Africa, it mostly found that only educated black elite attended the first four Pan-African conferences, hence leaving out Blacks from working class backgrounds. In a sense,…

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    Ireland, during the same years, 600,000 left for America. Many of the immigrants were poor, unskilled Irish-Catholics from southern and western Ireland. Through 1841-1850, 780,700 people emigrated from Ireland for America and Canada. Today, 40 million Americans can trace their lineage back to Ireland. Starvation, religious discrimination, and disease forced Irish immigrants out of their home country and into the US, where they had early troubles fitting in, but through it all, they seemed…

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    White supremacy is a system that effects the mind, body, and soul of many African Americans. It has maintained its strength and power from its inconspicuous nature highlighted by Ta-Nehisi Coates in his statement “One cannot… claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. This is difficult because there exists…an apparatus urging us to accept American innocence at face value and not to inquire too much.” White supremacy was described by Dayvon Love as a math problem, you can’t complete a…

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    John Philip Sousa's Music

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    different. When his music is heard it is associated with America and the Armed Forces. Often times associations are made over time like, Thanksgiving and pie but, the association of Sousa’s music and America were nearly seamless. His march, Stars & Stripes Forever exemplifies this association musically and historically. Sousa’s music is undeniably American at the first listen. Due to Sousa’s practice of quoting patriotic songs like the Star Spangled Banner, in his own pieces highlights the…

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    Tough Love In her book The Bluest Eye, Morrison presents the line between success and failure, drawn by parents’ to their African American children, as a tool used to prepare them for society. The line is depicted through the parents attitudes towards their children. Their mannerisms mimic how society has treated them in the past, moreover, it is a mechanism used to prepare their children for what is to come. Consequently, if the child can’t physically or mentally take it, they fail. If the…

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    During that time, African Americans are considered as the lowest class. Most of the white characters in the novel stereotype black people that they are dirty, stupid, lazy, and have diseases. “Hilly raises her voice about three octaves when talking to black people. Elizabeth smiles…

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