Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

engage in racial profiling. (Weatherspoon). As defined by the American Civil Liberties Union, “racial profiling is the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion or national origin.” The practice of racial profiling by police officers has increased the rate of traffic stops of African-American male drivers as well…

Theresa Mossholder Ainesworth Clark AAST/HIST 263 February 11, 2017 America: Home of the Oppressed Martin R. Delany and Frederick Douglass are both abolitionists born in the early 1800s. They were colored men raised during a time when the Negro had to fight for his freedom. While Delany was born a free man in Charlestown West Virginia (Virginia at the time), Douglass was born a slave, however he escaped to Massachusetts in 1838. Delany moved to Pittsburgh at the age of 19 where he attended high…

The official name is the Portuguese Republic and it is located in southwest Europe. The name Portugal derives from the Roman name “Portus Cale.” Portugal is located in the Iberian Peninsula, south west of Spain and north east of the Atlantic Ocean. They started as the county of Portugal after the crusades started reconquering land to the moors. In 1143 Portugal had its independence and started conquering its way south. In 1297 it stabilized its borders, making itself the European country with…

This paper examines the relationship between single parent families, traditional and non-traditional family structures and their effects on child adolescent social and behavioral development and their educational achievement. The studies reviewed how single parent and family structure effects a child’s academic achievement in school, their social development and if the parent’s gender played a role in these findings. Single Parent Families Versus Traditional and Nontraditional Family…

Low-income Children Defined According to a Health Affairs article, vulnerability can be best defined as being prone to harm, being of result from an interaction between the resources available to individuals and communities, and challenges in life that are faced. A vulnerable population can then be ambiguously indicated as “the disadvantaged sub-segment of the community requiring utmost care, specific ancillary considerations and augmented protections in research” (Shivayogi, 2013).…

Schools should be a place of safe learning not only for the students but for the teachers as well. There are many advantages of having security within our schools. One of the advantages of security in schools is that fewer incidents, suspensions and expulsions happen when schools have security measures in place (Wren, 2013). Another advantage of having security within our schools is being able to identify information prior to an attack, communities across the country can effectively establish…

Starting in 1938, minimum wage was introduced in the United States of America. Minimum wage was authorized based on an ideal in which families would be put into a better place financially. Raising an individual’s income will allow them to spend their excess cash on items that may have been once considered a luxury on their lower salary. On the opposite side of this reasoning, raising the minimum wage may not help lower income families. Job positions within a company, especially those that…

Lack of access to homeownership unfairly disadvantages people of color. People of color, especially Hispanic and African American people, relatively lack access to homeownership in the United States, as shown by the rates of homeownership over time (U.S. Census Bureau, updated constantly). This disparity in large part traces its roots to redlining, a government-sanctioned pattern of racially discriminatory mortgage- and other- lending practices that largely segregated people of color into…

For centuries, people have arrived on American shores with little more than a suitcase and a dream of a better life. The promise of freedom and opportunity continues to lure foreigners to the United States, even though stories of hardship and isolation comprise the bulk of American immigrant literature. Having reached the promised land, immigrants find themselves faced with unimaginable obstacles. My family came to America to pursue a better life. Both of my parents came from middle class family…

nursing profession. With the rise and demand for a diverse workforce among nurses, its important that clinician and educators remains focus on such issues in order to meet the demands of a cultural diverse population. With the reporting from the U.S. Census Bureau according to Lowe and Archibald (2009) greater that 11% of the registered nurse workforce are of racial and ethnic minorities decent. With only 4.6% of this reporting number were seen among non- Hispanic African Americans, and more…