Occupational segregation

Lisa Tessman’s article describes the three problematic traits towards political resistance: anger, courage, and loyalty. With anger, Tessman thinks that political resisters need to “train” or control their anger carefully; otherwise, it could lead to errors where people can become angry at the wrong target or use their anger to an excessive degree (Tessman, 120). When people attack the wrong target, it makes it harder for officials to find the oppressors who did the deeds. For example, if…

In chapter two, Living in the Suburbs, Becoming Americans, of Cindy Cheng’s book Citizens of Asian America, Cheng discusses the how suburbanization became a process of Americanization for minorities. She does this by examining race and its role in assimilation, how women and families played a role in the perceived assimilability of Chinese Americans, and how the story of Sing Sheng tested how democratic the United States truly was. In chapter two Cindy Cheng argues that the transformative…

There were many towns and cities that had never or unsuccessfully endeavored to have a racial diversity within them. Imagine living in a city where you weren’t allowed to conversate and do activities with others because they weren’t the same color as you. At least in Longtown, Ohio individuals didn’t care what race one another was.Although the citizens that occupied the town had a freely mixed variety of races, in Longtown’s history there has been some racism that had crept in from the outside…

Jacklyn’s Story My knowledge or lack thereof, understanding racism has been sugarcoated due to my White Privilege. My lack of knowledge and education based on where I grew up has hindered my knowledge and reality of the issues and problems regarding racism. I grew up in a very small town of about 2,000 people where the vast majority of people were predominantly Caucasian. And while I was growing up, my education I received had ever talked about racism. I just learned about slavery and that was…

In the article, "How It Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston, she describes her life as an African American women in the early 20th century and what it was like. She uses paper bags to describe people, and in the paper bags are random things that make up life like hope, dreams, disappointments, etc… Zora grew up in an all-black community in Florida, so her color was never an issue until she left home for boarding school when she was 13. Back home she says "everyone's Zora", but at her…

Though both African American and Native Americans shared the bottom of the American social ladder and suffered from prejudice and discrimination, their lives were somewhat different. Both suffered at the hands of whites, but Native Americans suffered more with the almost total destruction of their society. On the other hand, it took much longer to begin improving the African American condition than it did for the Native American one. One thing is certain however, America must always remember the…

Paulina Clemente Dr. O’Toole SOA-110-P1 11/14/17 Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks & Whites by Harlon Dalton is a book written to help the reader look sociologically at the realities of society when dealing with race. It highlights the superiority that white folk have in society compared to blacks, or other people of color, and how it’s important to acknowledge this in order to talk about and heal the racial wounds of America. Dalton gives suggestions for both whites and…

In today’s society, we live in a world of cultural differences. In the newspaper editorial “American Flag stands for Tolerance” by Ronald J. Allen, it talks about people from different backgrounds and whether they support the burning of the flag or are against it. In the story “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” by Etgar Keret, it talks about how one boy reacts around someone who comes from a different culture as he does. In the video My So-Called Enemy by Lisa Gossels, it shows how…

DocViewer Page of 5 Zoom Pages Cole 1 Rodney Cole Prof. Merri Fefles HIS-202-300 9 December 2017 Capstone Project: Yvonne Sneed Racial tension has been a constant issue in the world similar to the way volcanoes stay inactive from eruption but there is always a chance the hostility can boil over. During the 1960s, Detroit experienced gentrification and Black Americans moved into White neighborhoods and there was discrimination amongst both races leading to scarce job opportunities for…

Rosa Parks was born on February 4th, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She lived with family but after her parents had separated her mother moved the family go to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her grandmother. Here, she experienced racial equality during her childhood. She had to learn a separate classroom reserved for blacks; school supplies are not adequate for the white students. While white students are taking the bus to school, the blacks students including Rose Park had to walk to school. In…