American psychologists

In the article, Jury Bias: Can You Argue the Facts When Race Enters the Mix, the author Silvia L. Mazzula tells us the truth that sometimes decisions from jurors are based on more than just facts. They are likely to be influenced by race, even though they don’t really notice that. The author firstly puts forward some public’s controversy about this kind of unfairness. The whole article is based on a study, in this study, we can see the jury bias does exist. Since we notice that situation, we…

thought or talked about, it is limited to African Americans, slavery, and discrimination. Racialization of crime is when a race is associated with criminal behavior through assumptions, behaviors, and personality characteristics. Not only have African Americans been racialized, but so have Latinos; racialization of crime has influenced the criminal justice process unjustly. Racialization has unequally influenced drug…

African-American to earn a Ph.D. in psychology, he overcame racial and discriminatory adversities, and he made lasting contributions to the field of psychology. Background & Education To begin, Francis Cecil Sumner was born on…

In his book Between the World and Me, American journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately writes about America’s racial history, and how said history shapes our lives today, particularly those of African Americans. Written as a letter to Coates’ son, Somari, Between the World and Me explains and emphasizes the reality of being black in America, as opposed to what Coates refers to as “living white”, often referred to as “the Dream”. Between the World and Me” highlights three aspects of cultural…

or suspects to convict. Months march on, and pressure from the people of the town builds, with many losing their faith in the police department and outwardly speaking about it. At the same time, the police learn about Walter McMillian, an African-American man who was known to be dating a white woman. Despite no leads and multiple cases of contradicting evidence, the police department arrests McMillian and began the process of acquitting him for life without parole. This case dominates Bryan…

Comprising of seven billion people, the human race is segregated by different belief systems as a result of differing perceptions. It is from this simple reality that from the very beginning of human civilization, wars have been fought over what different cultures have perceived to be right or wrong. Therefore, human perception provides the basis for what is personally real and what is not; as an individual senses and interprets external information, action follows according to what has been…

my desire for an American one. I wanted nothing to do with being Vietnamese or Asian because all that it had brought me was a sense of inferiority and constant bullying. My desire to suppress my Vietnamese identity brings up a point that is brought up by Ms. Mori, the protagonist’s friend with benefits. During one of their conversations, she asks, “So why are we supposed to not forget our culture? Isn’t my culture right here since I was born here?” (73). She is a Japanese American who has…

officers will stop African-Americans just because of their race. “In Newark, New Jersey, on the night of June 14, 2008, two youths aged 15 and 13 were riding in a car driven by their football coach. All were African American. Newark police officers stopped their car in the rain, pulled the three out, and held them at gunpoint while the car was searched. James stated that the search violated his rights. One officer replied in abusive language that the three African Americans didn’t have rights…

prejudiced against African American students. In a 1979 court case, Larry P. v. Riles, which argued this issue, the court agreed that schools were indeed discriminatory, and they ruled each state to construct a plan to abolish the unequal enrollment of African American children in special education programs (Russo & Talbert-Johnson, 1997, p. 139). With the responsibility to address this issue in the states hands, the pressure ultimately is placed on school staff, psychologists, and test makers…

negative contingencies present in Chicago communities in the 1950s. Although, the experience of being prohibited from frequenting the community pool seemed to be huge ordeal in a child’s eyes, his problems were little compared to what many African-Americans had to endure. Steele proceeds by mentioning “black people in that time and place had many restrictive conditions of life tied to their identity” (556) by restrictive conditions we can associate as a prelude to the topic segregation.…