The American Scholar

physical threat or coercion in negotiating and problem solving. Also histories records have shown violence, on the other hand, always leads to the same conclusion: more violence. So how does a Hindu monk, Vietnamese Buddhist, Hasidic Jew, and African American Christian share a common ethical view of non-violence? Mohandas K. Gandhi believed…

also illustrating how the great American hypocrisy affects this transition. A great example of this comes from two paragraphs discussing her father’s first job at a blood bank. The job is temporary, as he’s trying to get official certification to be a doctor in the United States, but he encounters difficulties. One woman is xenophobic to him, “[requesting] to see an “American” doctor” (Balcita 2006, 1) when he comes to her aid. While this is a prime example of American hypocrisy as I explained…

Malcolm X, WEB Dubois, Carter G. Woodson, and Frederick Douglass all believed that the role of the scholar in Black Studies was the most important in the fight against European powers and American institutionalization. The scholars would hold the key to preserving the history and heritage of African American culture. Malcolm X shared an intense analysis of the educational issues of African Americans. He sought to make blacks value their history and culture by making it the focal point of their…

questions regarding political participation? How does ethnicity influence participation at the individual and group level? And does ethnic conflict increase or decrease political participation across ethnic lines? Questions such as these have fascinated scholars of ethnic politics for decades and given recent developments, it seems as important as ever to understand the complexities of such questions regarding ethnicity and its influence on political participation. This essay seeks to further…

In Professor Glenn Moots’ article pertaining to the American Revolution, the author both summarizes and analyzes the 2013 symposium where scholars gathered to debate the justifications of the war. The analyses, which he provides from multiple perspectives, address question of jus in bello and jus ad bellum, helping to determine whether the events of the Revolution were defendable. By referring to specific events and reflecting on fellow scholars’ contrasting opinions, Moots concludes that proper…

are fed up with the lack of freedom and respect that they are treated with, they leave Earth in homemade rockets to live on Mars. The racist Samuel Teece shows his blindness and prejudice by saying “Could they do that?” when told that the African-Americans had built rockets that were suitable to travel to Mars. Teece’s saying this implies that he is dumbfounded that black people are equally as smart and capable of building rockets as white people. This quote also shows that he doesn’t believe…

According to the U.S Census, there are around 655,000 current African American high school seniors. Yet, when reading the statistics of the Ron Brown scholarship applicant pool, there were only 4,000 students who applied. These 4,000 merely makeup .006 percent of the black seniors in this country, and they shine a light on an area that the Ron Brown Scholar program needs to address. Today, the modern education system is tainted with bureaucratic and oligarchical tendencies that prevents students…

of Blacks in Higher Education does not disclose how the four scholarly authors where chosen. The four scholarly authors are: • Rhett S. Jones, professor of history and Afro-American studies at Brown University, now directs the university’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. He chaired Brown’s Afro-American studies program from 1972 to 1984. • Alexander W. Astin, professor and director of the Higher Education Research institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. •…

major social issue that is often a debate among scholars in social sciences and ordinary citizens without any matching professionalism. Some of the contemporary studies on racism attribute its dominance in modern societies to the strategies being used to create antiracist attitudes. The American population has made many achievements in the areas of civil rights through their consistent championing for fair and equal treatment. Gradually, the Americans become a unanimous voice that condemns acts…

discrimination, for a prolonged period of time. The notion of race and ethnicity within society has been unjustly utilized as a means of targeting and terrorizing people of color⎼a concurrent belief which has been set forth by a white-dominated society. Scholars are primarily…