Multiracial

that Jazz was able to emerge. The years before jazz saw the city of New Orleans as a hotbed of the mixing of cultures. In New Orleans the primary cultures and ethnicities seen included: Caucasians, Africans, Caribbean people, and Creoles, i.e. multiracial Africans (Harrison). In this mix of a city the ability for intermixing of cultures was possible, and this city would be known as the birth place of jazz. The cultures were not the only thing to mix but also the music mixed two of which were the…

1. The Mexican War - The Mexican-American War began in 1846 when President Polk sent a United States representative make an offer of purchasing California and parts of New Mexico from the Mexicans. He also requested to settle the border territory claims in Texas. The US offered $25-$30 million, along with $3 million in relief debt for American citizens. The Mexican government refused to meet with the representative, causing Polk to order US troops to move into the disputed territory to protect…

history. When Canada altered their previously strict immigration policy and implemented a “more welcoming” multicultural strategy, it was not done only to prove that the nation had undergone “a successful transition from a white settler colony to multiracial, multi- ethnic [...] society” (144). Rather, with a great demand for workers to supplement/aid in the repair of Canada’s economy post World War II, decolonizing instability of many regions in the perceived “Third World” motivated many…

rights to vote. Later in 1991, Mandela was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC), along with Oliver Tambo serving as national chairperson. Mandela continued to negotiate with President F.W. de Klerk toward the country’s first multiracial elections, while White South Africans were willing to share power, and black South Africans wanted a complete transfer of power. The negotiations, often strained, had a news of violent eruptions including the assassination of ANC leader Chris…

In life there will always the have and the have nots. The reason for this is because there’s no such thing as a perfect world, and in order for there to be a cosmic balance something has to give. From 1948 to 1990 there were strict laws and regulations known as the apartheid within the country of South Africa. According to merriam webster the definition of apartheid is a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. There were strict laws such as anti-miscegenation laws…

Valley High School (VHS) in West Des Moines, Iowa is one of the biggest and most successful schools in Iowa. Valley offers a large range of academic courses, a dominating athletics program, a strong arts department, and a long list of activities for its students. However, recently, deep racial disparities have been uncovered as a result of race related fights at the school which led into school shooting threats. Valley asked an Iowa State team to conduct a study to help empiricize the racism,…

Throughout history there have been two acknowledged genders, male and female. No matter the race, the female gender has been treated as less than since the beginning of time. The oppression of women dates back to the beginning of written history. For most of time, all of women 's rights belonged to her husband. Often women were looked at as the property of her husband and all her wealth was in his name. Until the year of 1718 women in the western world couldn’t own their own land. Even after…

Many argue that the pen is mightier than the sword, but there is nothing mighty about writing something without meaning. Historically, speaking “during the first fifteen years following its adoption … the Declaration of Independence seems to have been all but forgotten” (Finkelman). Thomas Jefferson, widely known for writing the Declaration of Independence and declaring “all men are created equal,” is constantly and wrongfully credited with the insertion of equality for all in America. In…

The root cause of the conflict is the ethnic tensions between the people in Angola. In Angola, ethnic divisions existed even before colonialism. The pre-colonial state formation was carried out mainly along ethnic lines. When Angola was discovered, it was not one homogenous state but instead many different ethnolinguistic groups varying in levels of development and sizes. Some were small tribes while others were larger nations. Portugese’s colonial presence forcibly included different…

conclusions where conclusions can’t be made. Confounds, which can account for a perceived correlation can be overlooked as a result of the researchers own biases (lecture, 09/01/2015). It may be insightful to research a possible correlation between multiracial people and their levels of self-esteem. Or whether or not mixed racial people tend to identify with the race which they are most obviously a member of in order to avoid racial dissonance. Correlational research requires construct,…