Kinship and descent

Okada dedicates further passages to the discrimination and prejudice within the Japanese community, particularly the hostility and hatred that Ichiro faces as a no-no boy. Ichiro is detested by numerous characters throughout the novel for performing what in their eyes amounted to disloyalty and un-American behavior. Ichiro’s friend Kenji rejects these racial binaries and is able to perceive the intra-racial prejudice. Using Yoon’s reasoning in an attempt to ease Ichiro’s mind Kenji says:…

rebellion contained fifty African troops and only two white officers. The harshest treatment came not from the white officials, but the African troops who were in charge of instilling discipline and order. Due to their higher position, the ethnic kinship that connected them to their rebellious kinsman was gone. They began to see the rebels through the lenses of Europeans, viewing them not as tribesmen, but as insurgents and lawbreakers who needed to be punished. By assigning these titles and…

of Hispaniola. Maroons which is derived from the Spanish word Cimarrón, similarly escaped, and can be found in English speaking Caribbean country such as Jamaica. These communities were first to live as free individuals and establish families and kinship…

Italian-American Assessment Americans typically use the famous rhyme “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue” in order to remember when and by whom the United States was founded. However, people of Italian descent often look at this saying with a sense of pride due to the fact that the well-known explorer, Christopher Columbus, was Italian. Additionally, the name America stems from yet another Italian voyager, Amerigo Vespucci (Spector, 2013, p. 331). This sense of Italian pride and identity in…

type of work or goods produced, the social class of the individual could be established. Sisterhood was an important part of kinship relations because it gave women authority similar to that of men, just in different roles; more specifically the ability to trade women made products meant that women could support themselves without the need for male assistance. The kinship ties, especially linked to sisters status, intertwined with the politics making it difficult to strictly classify leadership…

present for two, the four women are accepted into college, two without proper documentation, and the other two with good documentation. The author depicts the efforts of these immigrant students attempting to be acclimated to live away from their kinship systems, the dorm life, and the difficulties in managing financial responsibilities. The resiliency conveyed by these women are amazing and worth noting, as the author provides the readers a glimpse into the endeavors…

Families exist in a larger complex made up of a community of kinship network and friends that make up their beliefs and values practices that are defined within the family (lynch 43). These beliefs and values are based on culture, which is comprised of the different languages spoken, as behaviors that influence each individual’s way of thinking, feeling, and interacting (28). The two cultures I decided to observe was that of the Hispanic/Latino and African American, each culture offers many…

Despite their superficial, similarities prostitution and temporary marriage vary greatly in their core beliefs, a fact Shahla Haeri conveys quite well in her book Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi’i Iran. Haeri analyzes mut’a, or temporary marriage, in an attempt to understand and clear up any misconceptions surrounding this highly tabooed issue. Through her analysis, she reveals some interesting aspects of Iranian society, the country where mut’a marriage is most heavily practiced. She…

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are…

demographic statistics makes it difficult to believe that the slave population of New Spain, modern day Mexico, was the largest in the Americas at one point in time. Just one percent of the Mexican population currently identifies as being of African descent, a significantly smaller portion of the population than other former slave colonies in the Americas. This small prevalence of the Afro-Mexican population has led to a lost history of these people, especially with the Mexican government 's…