United States counties with African American majority populations

Often, it is not until one steps back from their own experiences and viewpoint and considers their life in retrospect that the events come to the surface. This truth is applicable when discussing the experience of a Caucasian female in the United States. Although white women experience the pressure of gender roles, they are rarely challenged by their race in a way that makes life more difficult. Accomplishments and failures are rarely attributed to the race of a white person (McIntosh, 1988)…

latest state to be added to the United States by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in August of 1959. The population of Hawaii is about 1,404,054 people with 50.2 percent male and 49.8 percent female. It has a total area of 10,931 square miles and made up of five counties. Hawaii is the eighth smallest state and the 11th least populated state, but it is 13th in population density (). According to the United State Census, the racial makeup of Hawaii is way more diverse than any other state in the…

Critical Thinking Exercise After acquiring data from two major criminal justice data sources, the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) and from the United States Census Bureau. I determined that based on 10 cities with populations that are higher than 250,000. Of those, 5 cities being high crime rate cities, and 5 cities being low crime rate cities. I gathered and analyzed the data of their demographics, characteristics, and that of police officers per thousands of citizens. I concluded that some of the…

The job of a Correctional official is to detect danger in prisons. These same officials can also detect opportunity to make changes and improve the system as well. Within local jails, state prisons and federal penitentiaries, they serve as the voice of authority as they ensure the security and well-being of prisoners. The job of a correctional official is to stop a violent conflict and ensure order within the prison walls and also to support opportunities to rehabilitate prisoners.…

In Exploring American History by __________, racial issues are a reoccurring problem which divide the United States. When white people began buying and importing African Americans as slaves, a stark division was created between the two races. Racial issues have divided the nation and citizens of the United States more than any other issue, occurring multiple times throughout history and still being seen today. Slavery was regarded as an important component of the United States’ economy and a…

Nicholas Lemann’s book “Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War” takes place in the Reconstruction Era in the state of Mississippi. “Redemption” is told through the eyes of a Republican carpetbagger, Adelbert Ames. The two main themes in “Redemption” are violence and divide between Republican and Democratic Parties. As a young boy, Ames attended the United States Military Academy under the watch of Robert E. Lee. During his time with the Union Army, he fought in sixteen battles, later…

We classified the 29 counties in Atlanta in to 3 sub-regions the City proper, Suburb-I and Suburb-II as explained earlier. Table 2 lists the socioeconomic characteristics of the three sub-regions of Atlanta. The City proper has the highest black population (49%) compared to other two regions. Suburb-I and Suburb-II had whites as dominant population (56% and 79%). The City-proper also has the highest percent of people in poverty (19%) compared to other two regions. Some of the socioeconomic…

stops account for the majority of the public’s contact with police officers. While Blacks, Hispanics and Whites are stopped by police at the same rate, racial disparities occur after the stops” (Slagle 12). Out of the hundreds of millions of drivers on today’s American highways, law enforcement tend to search people that they find suspicious of criminal activity. The African-American community is stereotypically labelled as people suspicious of crime. Though African-Americans, Hispanics, and…

Kaur Jagroop Ward Anderson Transition to college 14 August 2015 The World Power: United States of America The Superpower is the nation which has dominant position among the relationship with other countries on the earth. The United States has ability to impact on the trade globally with its economic strength and dominant with military power. “A country that has capacity to project dominating power and has influence anywhere at the world, and sometimes,…

Racism. “It is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, the majority of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another” (Anti- Defamation League). After long years, the world thought it was done with but it is not. It has just evolved with the time period. There were some acts…