American sociologists

fruitfulness, only to have the exact opposite occur. This is what many off the African Americans who migrated to the North, specifically the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia currently Spruce Street on the north, South Street on the south, Sixth Street on the east, and Twenty-Third Street on the west. Here, the African American community was the largest out of any other region in Philadelphia. During famous sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois’s study, known as the Philadelphia Nergo, of this region, he…

Wisconsin, where more than 4% of black male residents are currently incarcerated. (Uneven Justice pg. 8) There is simply no other reasonable explanations of these figures, and of the much longer sentences that tend to be given to Black and Hispanic Americans in comparison to whites (source), than that our society is so enmeshed with our own racism that those who are opposed to it have no idea how to dismantle it. And while many factors have contributed to the boom in the prison population since…

(Eitzen, 130). These two words play a huge role in the U.S. Prison system considering a vast majority of inmates and ex-inmates are those who were or still are unable to conform to the current time’s norms, values, and laws. It is important to sociologists and those who run prison systems to consider social control and deviance to examine if there is anything we can do as a society to prevent others from straying off course and becoming labeled as a deviant. Literature Review In Mass…

black women prove that racism and its ideas still exist are very much alive today. The mammy is a direct result of slavery, despite this relationship being illegal now; the rest of the stereotypes might be a contributing factor as to why African-American women are suffering the highest rates of violence against…

family houses provide shelter for 80 percent of Muncie's families”. The piece is by the artist known as Margaret Bourke-White who was an American born in 1904 and died in 1971. This picture depicts “single-family” residential homes in one of Indiana’s largest cities, Muncie. This neighborhood had thrived due to the homegrown business intelligence. Sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd both classified the town as a true representation of “Middletown” United States around the 1920s. LIFE magazine…

an American City by Alice Goffman, a sociologist, who had an ethnography assignment for an undergraduate class at the University of Pennsylvania, which turned into a book. This ethnography is a study of an African American neighborhood in Philadelphia, labeled as “6th street” where residents live in a constant on-edge police state. They are constantly in fear of being arrested, chased or searched, sent to jail or prison. Goffman started working in a cafeteria, with an older African-American…

William Edward Burghardt DuBois, formerly known as W.E.B. DuBois. An American sociologist, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, and leader. He was considered a defender of freedom, and fighter of injustice, and fighter of Black Liberation. DuBois is an inspiration not only to sociology but to Black lives matter activist. He noticed the race problem and was trying to solve it and cure colored prejudice. W.E.B. DuBois was an influential leader, his experience was one of the reasons why he such…

readers trust because he is talking about a political figure and is able to give information on that figure. Then he uses a mix of responses from Twitter of people who agree or disagree with Ben Carson. He uses a tweet by Dr. DaShanne Stokes, who is sociologist with a master in psychology and has been able to come up from being poor and homeless, in which he called Ben Carson completely clueless on issues with poverty. Also uses a tweet by actor and activist George Takei, who calls Ben Carson an…

"W. E. B." Du Bois was born in February 1868 and died in 1963, he was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Du Bois earned his Ph.D. in History and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. In 1915 Du Bois wrote The Negro, which is a small book about the impact of slavery and black history in the Caribbean and United States. In the eleventh chapter of the book Du Bois speaks about “Negro…

Geronimo: A True American The brave Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo was able to accomplish many astonishing feats before he died at the age of seventy-nine in 1909. Some of these achievements include continuing his journey of bettering the lives of his people despite his own family being murdered when he was only twenty-nine (27). Geronimo fully embodies the hard-working and no excuses attitude that many Americans strive for. Geronimo in many ways possesses the same moral code and ideas that…