Naturalization

The very first instance of people in the area of the Los Angeles River were the Tongva Native Americans. Evidence suggests that they may have arrived as early as 5000 B.C.. At this time there was an abundance of both vegetation and wildlife surrounding the river ranging from berry bushes to bears. Hundreds of years later the city began to grow when Europeans settled the area in the middle of the 19th century. At this point the river was tame for most of the year but during the winter the river…

The 1908 Zangwill quote states, "God is making the American!. . .the real American has not yet arrived. He will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. . .the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labor and look forward.” (Booth, 1998). There are many ways to interpret this quote, including the progress made, and the distance left to go. Progress has been great in the past centuries, with the assimilation of many minority groups into the United States.…

In 1971, a landmark Supreme Court case, Guey Hung Lee v. Johnson, desegregated Chinese public schools, and reassigned students to other schools. At the time, Asian parents protested the move, because in the Asian schools, students could learn about their cultural heritage. The early 70s built on the political gains from the 60s with the election of Norman Minetta as mayor of San Jose, California, and Marion Lacadia Obera became the first Filipina American to be appointed judge to the Los Angeles…

Justice Decision Paper In this case petitioner, Fred Korematsu, is being charged by the federal district court for breaking Civilian Exclusion order No. 34 and for being found outside of the prescribed area during curfew. The first and main charge towards Korematsu is that he has remained at the military zone which is a direct violation of the Civilian Exclusion Order No.34 (Mr. Justice Black, Opinion of the Court). The second charge promoted against Korematsu is for deliberate breaking of the…

the 17th century to the 1960s (Henry and Sears ). Although racial issues in America today do not feature instances of slavery, segregation, the American Indian Wars, Native American reservations, Native American boarding schools, immigration and naturalization law and internment camps as it were in the past; hate crimes and hateful views from Americans are the new forms of racism. Majority of the hate crimes in the United States are inspired by racial and ethnic lines. According to the Bureau of…

Japanese Internment Camps Many events happen around the world, but most of them aren 't taught in history. We all know about Stalin 's Russia, who sent people who opposed his rules and judgements to Siberia. Then there is Hitler 's Germany, who targeted Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped for not being Arian. What about America? What has happened in our own country that we have repressed and why have they been forgotten? In World War II we created Japanese Internment Camps. The camps were first…

The United States of America is commonly known as “the melting pot”. The nickname came from the hundreds of thousands of immigrants that migrated here with the hopes of achieving the American Dream. These immigrants were known to be hardworking and typically worked twice as hard for half of the pay. Many of these immigrants put up with lower living statuses because they knew it was better than what they were receiving from their homeland. The children of these immigrants would be effected…

“Flash upon my inward eye”: The Role of Reflection and Tranquility in William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” In his preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth famously writes that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth, Wu 509). However, it is important to note that he modifies this statement by adding that “though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man who, being possessed of…

Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia provides a wide overview of the consequences of settler colonialism and capitalist neoglobalization. Most of her framework focuses on how to abolish border imperialism and give migrants justice against antioppressive Western regimes. As stated in her introduction her book tries to provide solutions to the various forms of violence such as, deportations, illegal suspicion and control over migrant workers. By doing this she also shows different…

hypothesis all alone chronicled advancement, Roediger illuminates the peruser that material and class contemplations are not adequate to clarify race and racism. While antiquarians, for example, Barbara Fields or Oliver Cromwell Cox stressed the "naturalization of whiteness and…