Irish immigration to Puerto Rico

Schools are the most diverse places within the United States. It is a place where children from all over the world come together. Today teachers must tap into the culture of their students, make students aware of diversity, and making teachers aware of diversity. “The cultural interplay between teachers, students, parents, and their school produces a context within which significant culture learning can occur” (Textbook page 112). Creating an understanding of the culture in which your students…

Oppression Strengthening the Oppressed Oppression has been an ongoing issue since the Native Americans stepped foot onto this land until present day. Back then, Native Americans and shortly after, African-Americans, were discriminated against because of their skin color and the common perception society had of them. Throughout history and even right now, so many groups of people are discriminated against because of their race, sex, religion, and, in the last twenty years or so, sexuality. When…

There have been a plethora of social change groups and social movements throughout America’s history. Each group has a goal and a blockage in their way. Each group is fighting generally for the same thing, equality. The following quote from Lakota Women, states that a movement is only as good as the people opposing or disagreeing with it, “Some people say that a movement dies the moment it becomes acceptable” (82). For example, school walkouts and blowouts were led by a group of Los Angeles…

Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X and Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains are books that create a controversial matter with keeping, reaching out and challenging their readers. Most of all both of these books mainly have the issue with the white readers. Both books similarly challenge their white readers by criticizing them and or creating an image or situation that offers them a way out. Paul Farmer’s and Malcolm X’s mediator’s, Tracy Kidder and Alex Haley, play a major role in…

Throughout the Progressive Era in America, the rapid build of industrialism lead to harsher distinctions between immigrant laborers and skilled, specifically, American workers and the continued unjust treatment of African Americans. As millions of people piled into cities, accounting for 42.1 million Americans living in cities by 1910 compared to the less than 20 percent who lived in urban areas in 1860, conditions in both the workplace and at home, worsened for those apart of the lower classes.…

become part of McKinley’s role as a wartime president. These are important factors that define the political alteration of American neutrality in favor of military intervention at the fringes of America geopolitics with the invasion of Cuba and Puerto Rico. In this manner, the Spanish-American war was a major shift to a proactive military style of aggression that marked the beginning of American imperialism against the Spanish government. After the Spanish-American War, the U.S. government then…

What causes people to act towards certain groups who may differ from them? For most, it is the experiences they are dealt with throughout their life, with even moments that seem insignificant having sizeable and long-term effects. These experiences can range from something that occurred to an individual in person or online, or secondary reactions to how a group behaves. With secondary reactions, it is important for one to note the importance of beliefs passed to individuals from parental,…

In the kitchen by Henry Louis Gates, Jr, is a text which reveals the struggle that African American people face with hair. It talks about himself and his friends trying to straighten their African American hair with its natural “kink” to try and conform in with other white people. The text talks mainly about hair, but the hair has another meaning. It’s about what the hair represents. The necessity for good hair shows the pressure for the African Americans to be equal with whites. It can be…

One of the major issues relevant today in regards to race, ethnicity and migration in American history in the period following the Second World War is that white people are still seen as “more than.” For instance, in Steve Kroll-Smith, Vern Baxter, and Pam Jenkin’s book, Left to Chance, white people are seen are more important than the black people who have their homes completely submerged under water from Hurricane Katrina. The book focuses on two black neighborhoods in New Orleans, both of…

African- Americans, gained freedom, but just like women and immigrants they did not receive equal rights to those of men until the twentieth century. Voting was never an option for these three groups. They were always facing problems such as sexism, stereotyping and racism, people expected very little from them making them the most vulnerable groups in the country. They knew very little because they were not expected to get an education. The industrial revolution gave them work in the cities of…