Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Although race is a social construction it has had serious effects on the daily life of individuals. Many individual think that racism is something at a personal level, through individual interactions. However, racism is something which affects minorities at a systemic level. It affects every aspect of society but individuals often don’t see how deeply invaded racism is into the system. One of these systems is the adoption process. The adoption industry is one that has biases because of the…

treated differently because of their gender. When it came to race, I never observed the children interacting with students of any other race. Although one student was mixed ethnicity (Hispanic and African American), she looked just like her other peers, and was never treated differently because of her race. Since the students were all African American and did not interact with children of other races while I was there, I cannot speak on how race may have affected their…

In her essay “Feel Good Reel Food: A Taste of the Cultural Kedgeree in Gurinder Chadha’s What’s Cooking?”, Debnita Chakravarti claims that “food is employed as an eloquent indicator for attitudes and constituents of characters, a perfect conveyor of subtexts that often lie too deep for the spoken word” (18). The novel Digging to America by Anne Tyler models this concept by using food to help construct the identities and behaviours of its characters, revealing the complex tensions that exist in…

Progress and Conclusion on my Personal Growth The four diversity related topics I’ll be focusing on are: oppression & power, ethnic identity development, ableism and ageism. With the topic of oppression and power, as well as some the exercises we did, sort of made me realized how rough my bringing up and how easy some of the white students had it, regardless of their situation. It also made apparent who had more privilege than others and who was a bit more wary of the power they held with their…

The meanings of home not only refer to a place where can sleep and eat, but a place to carry the joys and angers, the place where full of love, responsibilities, obligations. Finding a home is a human destiny in a sense. For Asian Americans, a home can be a small family built up by the people they loved, also can be a community established by the entire Asian American. For APA LGBT, the home is not always make they feel peace of mind. It is easy for ordinary people to have access to the support…

In an article in the LA Times written by Hector Tobar, an interview was conducted with a professor from Cal. State Northridge regarding a book he wrote and subject matter that he had taught that was banned for supposedly being separatist material. In the article, a law was passed in Arizona that "...all but equated ethnic studies with treason by making it illegal…

Through writing about my racial identity and ethnicity, I will discuss how my life has been impacted by my ethnic identity and the society that I live in. I will also discuss the sociological aspect of my ethnic identity. I will discuss what my racial identity is, how I define it, how it has changed, and how I interact with others in the same group as me. It is important to discuss my own experiences to better understand the experiences of others. My racial identity is white. I am white but I…

India focuses on the citizens of India, and their obsession with her ethnicity. At one moment in the collection, the speaker is persistently asked by a police escort, “Are you Indian?... Madam, are you France? Are you American? I think you are born in a different country” (Kapil 18). The question of ethnicity is reiterated several times because people find it important to classify people with their ethnicity. This focus on ethnicity is paralleled in Pablo’s life and the creative piece. I decided…

The recent changes made by the 2020 Census, which would move Latinos into the race category, brings forward the discussion whether Latinos should be considered a race or an ethnicity. Even though society projects a single stereotype of what it means to be a Latinos, the Latino community is actually extremely diverse with no physical characteristics bounding them together instead the shared experience of being a Latino is the United States ties this heterogeneous group together. This…

years in the United States, poverty has proven to be an insidious problem that has over time developed into the multifaceted form that is apparent today. For my research paper, I wish to examine poverty’s diverse traits and compare it to the preconceived notion that the general population may hold of people who live in poverty in the United States. Distribution of poverty by race One of the major components that contribute to poverty’s diverse nature is the different races and ethnicities…