Southern Hemisphere

In her article Why Mass Incarceration Matters; Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History, Heather Thompson discusses how mass incarceration lead to the decline of poor African American’s economic and social standing, in some cases took jobs from white rural areas, raised profits of businesses in the prison industry, and increased the amount of prisoners performing full time labor. She argues that the greater increase of disparity between African…

Rivers said, “In southern states you had all these states that basically criminalize being black…The consequence of being arrested and found guilty of a crime—including a misdemeanor- is you would lose your right to vote” (Abdual-Alim). Virginia is one of the most affected…

Because of this high retaliation held against the Southern Black Americans, they refrained from becoming politically active. Therefore, this gave a leeway for White Americans to continue to have control of the local, state and to the national level of federal government. Philip Randolph and Chandler’s “Migration and Political power” expresses how African American used their political power combat South’s aggressiveness. Black Americans left the Southern States to the North where they faced less…

can be evaluated that his “raising” was in the late 1890’s. In this time period, race relations were poor and levels of racial-based violence were greatly elevated. A number of race-crimes occurred in the 1890s, including the 1st Omaha Race Riot (1891), the Wilmington Race Riot (1898), and the Newburg, NY riot (1899). (EXPLAIN WHAT EACH ONE OF THESE ARE) It can be interpreted that during this period of time, many white families had felt varying degrees of animosity to African Americans. This…

“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future” stated by Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout history in America from 1865-1940’s, America has strived to reconstruct the brokenness of America’s North and South, to get African American right to vote as well as women’s rights and minorities. The railroads being an important key for trading in America and immigrants coming to America for fresh new start. The First World War as well as the Great depression and the New deal…

be similar in religious values and in socioeconomic status. Allensworth explains that both states seem to consist of mostly conservative Christians and both states exemplified polarizing of social groups. This seems to be a typical occurrence in southern culture in that people tend to gather in groups in which they are comfortable. In general, people do not like to move out of their comfort zones to socialize with another societal group. This causes the polarization of groups, which is…

Michael Brown was an eighteen year old who lost his life after an encounter with the police. On August 9, 2014 a call was made to report a robbery that had took place at Ferguson Market & Liquor. Around midday, an African American male had been reported of stealing boxes of cigarillos and pushing the store clerk on his way out of the store. The police dispatcher described the suspect as wearing a red St. Louis Cardinals hat, khaki shorts, yellow socks, a white T-shirt, while being accompanied by…

Reconstruction: Revolutionary or Rotten? There is no doubt that the final outcome of the Reconstruction Era could have been argued as both a success and failure. Its successes may have been seen through the political changes and major constitutional amendments, while it could be disputed that its failures of the non-permanency of political changes and immoral practices trumped the attempts made during the period. In the words of Eric Foner, “[Reconstruction was] an unfinished Revolution,”…

Many have alluded to the idea that slavery was necessary before the writing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The majority of people living in the south believed this to be true in 1850, a rather high number of people used it to justify their personal ownership of slaves. Others believed that slave possession was justified if the slaves were taken care of and protected. A popular idea was that proper caretaking was enough reason that slave owners shouldn’t feel guilty about owning slaves. Not all people in…

The Help Understanding of context of the civil rights in 1960 America influenced me to respond the events and character from the novel The Help in a better way than if I didn’t know the context. The Help is set in Jackson Mississippi and explores the growing friendship between the privileged white lady Mrs Skeeter and the two maids Aibileen and Minny. The novel is written by Kathryn Sockett and uses the context of the setting to drives character development and conflict between the whites and…