Irish immigration to Puerto Rico

Propaganda is an effective style of persuasion in which people are swayed to believe a lie by images and little reason or logic. By using images that defame a certain group of people, the government attempts to spread the ideas through the propaganda and is able to impose the same opinions onto its citizens. In the early to mid-1900s, Caucasian Americans were against the Japanese, and, because of their similar appearance, other Asians were discriminated against as well. With the show of thin…

“For the immigrants of Europe, a dream dared and won true. The descendants of African slaves were offered no such welcome or participation.” (Wilson, xvii) The play Fences, written by August Wilson, presents inequality African Americans still suffer from 1950s to 1960s even after slavery, before the Civil Rights Movement. Whether American Dream is the unreachable star or the apple which can be reached on tiptoe; August Wilson, implying that the American Dream is the sense of achievement and…

Whiteness, the term expressed as acting or behaving as white or pale-skinned people. Well, what do we mean by the term “Whiteness?” When we hear the term whiteness or white we automatically think of white people and their behaviors. We think of educated, powerful, proper, and other terms with positive descriptions. Now a days, the term white is used to accuse someone of behaving like white people. Being accused of acting white is seen as wrong because people of other ethnics take it as trying to…

The Jim Crow era was a savage and brutal duration in American history that revealed how African-Americans were viewed in the eyes of the white southerners. Throughout the late 1870s and the early 1900s white southerners prioritized their views and power to enforce racial oppression with the use of multiple methods. The use of lynch mobs focused to instill terror into the hearts of the African-American population not only to secure fear of the white population, but to also forfeit their faith in…

Introduction Racial minorities are usually the face of the poor in the United States. Government assisted programs, such as food stamps and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) are usually associated with the mental image of a Black or Hispanic overweight woman. The media usually represents those who are poor and on welfare as Black or some other non-White minority. But the majority of those on welfare are white (Delaney & Scheller, 2015). As a country where being white can usually help you land…

The shape of modern day Cuban society is undoubtedly and irreversibly built on the goal of withstanding imperialistic advances from the United States. Since the end of the 19th century, the United States has attempted to shape Cuba into an expendable asset that helps drive the economical wagon of the most powerful nation on earth. In this paper I will discuss the imperialistic endeavours America subjected Cuba to prior to the Cuban Revolution, how biased and misinformed reporting on Cuba has…

It is a well-known fact the African Americans tend to have higher levels of unemployment and lower levels of education than their white counterparts. The constant debate that whether or not that happened because of the structure of laws in the United States or because black people do not have a culture of working hard. In “Revisiting the Debate on Race and Culture”, William Darity Jr. talks about how different aspects of black identity play a role in the education and wealth of an individual.…

countries. Many seem to forget about the small island in the Caribbean Sea; and while we know that Puerto Rico is there, not many know the participation…

later, after becoming acquainted with all the merchandise sold by the furniture store, he applied for a position as a salesman in the store downtown and got it. Much to his friends’ surprise, he proved to be an excellent salesman, despite his heavy Puerto Rican accent in both English and Spanish; but handsome, charming, and attentive, he outsold all the other salesmen during his first year on the job. Then, he bought a house in a good neighborhood near Five Points and moved us out of the barrio…

Spanish American war involved Spain, America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. There were many reasons for this war, one of them was Cuba's unsuccessful attempt to revolt over Spain. The inhumane ways and methods the Spanish used to suppress the Cubans swayed many Americans to go to war with Spain. Also America was looking to expand its boundaries to outside the continental borders. War was waged on the Spanish on April 25, 1898. This was after the sinking of the Battleship Maine in…