Multiracial

Across the country, fear is instilled in minorities minds because of hate crimes that are not even committed on them. There are several types of hate crimes such as crimes committed against transgender individuals or couples, crimes committed against religious individuals, and crimes committed against people with difference in skin color or country of origin. Hate crimes often have life changing negative effects on the victim and their families such as relocation. Hate crimes are criminal acts…

An evidenced-based and cost effective way to reduce crime is procedural justice also identified by researchers as procedural fairness. Procedural justice describes the idea that how individuals regard the justice system is tied more to the perceived fairness of the process and how they were treated rather than the perceived fairness of the outcome (Tyler, 2015). One of the leading researchers on this matter is Tom Tyler of Yale Law School, and he has identified several dimensions of procedural…

National prohibition of alcohol from 1920-1933 in the United States was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce taxes and to improve health and hygiene in America. After ratification of the Eighteenth amendment, establishments like saloons, bars and restaurants were no longer able to legally sell alcohol. People combatted this with the creation of speakeasies, offering citizens the opportunity to purchase and consume illicit alcohol beverages. Speakeasies are…

There are a few names associated with various civil rights movements across the globe that stand out above the others. These names are not only known for their contributions for gaining equality and acceptance of social groups in their countries, but also influencing the views on the oppressed on a worldwide level, and gaining respect for them. Those people are responsible for the paradigm shifts that make modern society so accepting, and bring us closer to an ideal civilization every day. Among…

Through experience it has been learned that White people do not typically identify strongly with race nor are they typically impacted by it. Very few White people acknowledge white privilege or have felt white guilt. I am a White girl however who has experienced both. I was always very racially aware from a young age, I knew that people around the world lived very different lives, had drastically opposite beliefs, and had a particular way of viewing the world, all of this fascinated me and I…

It has become obvious that the face of the American is quickly changing along with the increasing variety of the American minorities. Barely out of the days of slavery and segregation, we witness people from different cultures as they attempt to come together in this free nation. Faced with cultural differences, the paths of American minorities often result in a collision that is mixed with diversity that local governments and institutions struggle to manage that range from housing, education,…

extremely easily with repetition because I am so used to things changing frequently. Most of the places I moved to were similar enough culture wise, but some of the places, like Chattanooga, TN, were very different from what I was used to. I went from multiracial or predominantly white areas of Illinois to a place that was predominantly black. The first time I lived there I was six years old and never learned about racism as it wasn’t really an issue at that age. When we moved back I was 13 and…

Question Three: Ongoing Struggles for Civil Rights Since the 1960s the Civil Rights Movement created many changes for African Americans in the United States. The Civil Rights Movement created new laws, amendments, and governmental changes to help better the lives of African Americans. However, discrimination throughout America continued through housing, mass incarceration, and zip-code profiling. The New Jim Crow is one example of how African Americans are still struggling with civil rights…

Racism achieved pushing the very people that suffered its abuse to disassociate themselves with each other. Japanese immigrants arriving in the United States did not want to associate themselves with Chinese Americans. During World War II, Chinese Americans did not want to associate themselves with Japanese Americans. This was all done to avoid the sphere of racism that existed in the United States. During the 1960s, students from these Asian subgroups “coined the term ‘Asian American’” , which…

Poverty and homelessness put people through a very tough situation. Whether morality of their decisions begins to play a smaller role in their lives. When surviving through the night, becomes their only focus for the day. Desperate times call for desperate measures, crime seems to be the only answer. According to the city data, one-fifth of all homeless people have committed a crime to get off the streets. To me, poverty is like homelessness, I compare poverty to people who work on a low pay…