Census-designated place

Coeur d’Alene was created by Richard Butler, in 1974, as a white only community. Hate crimes were committed until the 2000’s when Norm Gissel filed a law suit that bankrupted the compound. Because Coeur d’Alene’s past, they are believed to still be bias to white Americans against other ethnicities. While this is what the town was founded upon, they have slowly began to be more acceptable to other races. The media, or video, shows that the town is based upon preserving the white American culture,…

He traveled the United States trying to find a place to settle and start a family. He chose a community called Andersonville in Chicago, Illinois. This small community of Swedish immigrants is the birthplace my Grandfather. Bruce Erickson lived in Andersonville until he left for a small Christian…

Interviewing a person can make you connect with that person on a more personal level. A person will learn more about their family, education, and morals just by talking with them. Interviews can become uncomfortable if the interviewer is not comfortable around the interviewee. Interviews are extremely beneficial in a way that a person will compare the answers they are asking to their own way of answering the questions. It makes a person think more into the questions than just asking them up…

family structures. People’s race ethnicity shapes their family structures and the way they live because it allows for every individual to part of the definition. Race and ethnicity influences peoples’ behaviors when it comes to gender roles and their place in the family. The diversity of race and ethnicity help understand the concept of the family. Allowing race and ethnicity to be taken in consideration society would be less structured in…

Our society in the United States of America is comprised of people of multiple races, ethnicities, religions, cultures and beliefs. Each of these components of diversity have been the cause of much unrest and disagreement among people. In the book “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” Beverly Tatum addresses the specific issue of race. Tatum examines various facets of the fact that different races are treated differently. Additionally, Tatum peels back the layers of…

One way to distinguish a person from the billions of other people in the world is by looking into their ethnicity. Ethnicity may be simplified as just a person’s origin, but arguments have been made that there is more to the world. Joane Nagel, author of “Constructing Ethnicity”, writes about what makes up the word ethnicity along with its uses in social and political spectrums. According to Diffen.com an ethnic group or ethnicity is a population group whose members identify with each other on…

Mexican American studies in Arizona have been accredited with increasing the graduation rates and improving students test scores on standardized tests in Arizona. The Tucson School District has aimed to ban ethnic studies under the guase that such course breed resentment in the students that took those specific classes against whites as well as hatred and that they also promoted division. Members of the state board view these classes not as educational, but as away to nurture future activist who…

“Jane Finch Mall” in the Google and I found few articles about shooting and murders. I was very hesitant to go there for the first time. However, when I actually got there and met the people at Jane-Finch OEYC, I found out it was a very pleasant place to be at. In fact, these people were one of the nicest people I’ve ever met in my life. I was quite shamed about myself of unknowingly having the prejudice and stereotype against the people who live in this area. According to Angelini, these kind…

For years, race has been a subject of controversy between those of different color. We can trace racial discrepancies in America back to the latter half of the 1800s, and still over 200 years later, struggles with race exist in the form of prejudice, discrimination, and bigotry. Adam Zyglis’s “Race and America” political cartoon demonstrates the correlation between America’s symbolic Uncle Sam and the issues of strife amongst the diverse cultures, both in appearance and belief, in order to…

maintaining that that these connections are either through origin or culture. Every ten years the U.S. government issues the decennial census which collects data about the actual count of people residing in the United States. The census contains questions pertaining to race and ethnicity, and these items are collected as self-identification items. When self-identifying on the census, respondents must choose the race or the races…