Race in the United States

The TV show The Big Bang Theory has spent years as one of the top sitcoms in the United States, capitalizing on jokes about nerd culture and friendships between social outcasts. A group of scientists in California navigate their social lives, romantic lives, and professional lives with many difficulties backed by a constant laugh track. One of these characters, however, stands out as particularly even in a show based on people who are different from societal norms. Rajesh “Raj” Koothrappali…

and after World War II. The population of the United States as a whole is one that is vast and truly diverse. In a California town of Stockton (dubbed “Little Manila” by the Filipino community), this diversity was truly making a precedent and growing quite rapidly. A rapid influx of Hispanic and Asian immigrants through the years began to sprout out and flourish throughout…

The American Dream” is a topic that many have mixed feelings, opinions, and statements about. Back in the 1600’s America was not exactly a free nor fair state. It had its ups and downs for sure. People were just not treated fairly by most’s opinions. Religion was a big problem for sure. Today freedom and equality are guaranteed to people of all races. “The New Colossus,” a story based on the theme “The American Dream,” was written by Emma Lazarus. This story says words like, pomp, teeming, and…

Through the hate map, there are a large amount of hate groups on the eastern side of United States of America as compared with the western side. They are generally located in large cities such as New Jersey, New York, Washington and more. Reason why there are more hate groups in large cities may be due to the fact that there are more people from different races and country as compared to smaller towns or suburbs. Immigrants will choose large cities to migrate to in order to establish their new…

Violence in the United States has become one of the largest topics of debate as of recent. Murder has become much too common, and the rate of this crime is only increasing. The solution to violence, more specifically gun violence, is a large point of discussion in the current presidential race. Citizens and politicians alike have very different viewpoints on how this issue should be dealt with, and this disagreement is causing a hindrance to actually solving the problem at hand. The number of…

between the United States of America and the Japanese empire had been building with disagreements about expanding territory and relations with China. The attack on the naval base of Pearl Harbor was a pre-planned attack by the Japanese meant to disable the United States to keep them out of the West Indies, an attack for Japan’s own selfish gain. The Japanese sent hundreds of fighter planes to attack the many naval vessels at Honolulu which damaged nearly 20 of the ships in the United States Navy…

Discrimination of immigrants and race have been points of interest in American society for decades after the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The question still stands if society exists in a post-racist and non-discriminatory state. The idea of a post-racist and non-discriminatory society is absurd in light of the disparities that exist among the races and immigrants in America; although, these differences do not stem from direct discrimination being factored into laws and culture anymore,…

his book, White Slave Crusades: Race Gender and Anti-Vice Activism 1887-1917, Brian Donovan analyzes the role of the white slavery narratives and anti-vice movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the construction of racial boundaries and inequalities in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Donovan centers on sexuality and gender as explanations for the cultural construction of race, racial categories, and inequalities rather than studying race as an independent…

How Does Misogyny Affect Women of Color in the American Workplace? The factors of race and sex have become detrimental in determining the status of women of color in the United States for they have been deemed a minority group. Women of color have experienced a history of oppression based on their race and gender, as depicted in their exclusion in early feminist movements. During World War II, propaganda like the image of Rosie the Riveter spread with the caption “We Can Do It” to inspire women…

poster being “Jap Trap”. The message is simple; if Americans wish to put a stop to the “yellow peril” after Pearl Harbor, then they should conserve more of their goods and be less wasteful. This War War II propaganda poster was created by the United States Information service, and was probably put into print somewhere between 1942 and 1945. The point of the poster is twofold. One, the poster reinforces the idea that each citizen should be mindful of the products they do and do not use in order…