American sociologists

Asian Americans in the U.S. have achieved great success in both academics and work fields nowadays. However, they could still face discrimination in regards to executive positions in the workplace. The sources below have the main idea that such phenomenon would cause mental health effects on Asian Americans in major corporations. Each source either offers information that workplace discrimination could mentally affects Asian American employees, or further the main idea of another source. A few…

progressed morally and socially enough to where Black Americans are no longer disadvantaged on a societal level? And, how we are to decide what a marker of social progress is in the context of racial discrimination? The main issue explained in the article that prompts the questions above is the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. To many, his election symbolizes an end to the era of racial prejudice. To sociologists who rely on objective data and the scientific…

In American history, there has been a plethora of individuals who have gone down in the books as the best of the best in their contribution to African American history, both the past and the present. African American history has dated as early as 1903 with W.E.B Dubois to Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def in 1984. These two phenomenal activists all paved the way for a long legacy of Black culture, music, education, and social justice.Today, the two of these activists lie in many social movements, including…

“Prison has become the new poverty trap,” said Bruce Western, a Harvard sociologist. “It has become a routine event for poor African-American men and their families, creating an enduring disadvantage at the very bottom of the American society.” “Basically , I was locked up with him,” she said. “My mind was locked up. My life was locked up. Our daughters grew up without a father.” “Prison and the Poverty…

James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins. New York. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 1989.Print. The Black Jacobins (1938), by African -Trinidadian writer C.L.R James is the history of the 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution also known as the French colony of San Domingo. The text centers on an ex-slave named Toussaint L’Ouverture, who became the leader and an advocate of the French Revolution ideals. James emphasizes that Toussaint “presence had that electrifying effect characteristic of great men of…

also intend to understand how this anti-urban renewal movement in New York directly affected African Americans. A plethora of material exists in reference to Jane Jacobs and urban renewal during this time, although it typically approaches the topic from an economic standpoint. Jane Jacobs wrote a large amount of data on urban renewal, her most popular work being The Death and Life of Great American Cities. This monumental source continues to…

How are African Americans Portrayed in Media? Today, in America, there is still a sense of distinct separation between the blacks and whites. Although America is one of the most diverse nations in the world, there seems to be a biased casting in the media. Media is one of the most important factors in american society, and ***Although there are both negative and positive connotations associated with african americans in media during events like the civil rights movement, murder cases, the…

belongs to the men in American society. I by name belong to my father, and my family. My body belongs to American culture because the attractiveness…

W.E.B. Du Bois and Luke Sawyer each identify the pursuit of individual economic gain as chief among the challenges facing African Americans in their struggle for racial equality at the turn of the twentieth century. Du Bois, a political giant and literary master, disdainfully associates the hunger for profit and position with vulgarity, pretense, and ostentation—all qualities that carry with them inflections of the lower classes and poor taste—and further links these “money-getters” with…

Much of the people, coming out of the south, when they reached their destinations in the north or west wanted one thing: freedom. That freedom came at a price many had to secure a job that sometimes was the lowest paid job, they had to worry about family they left behind, and tried to find their way in the New World. The black immigrants that came from the south were like any other immigrants coming from other countries; they brought their culture and tried to stay together. “As best they could,…