White Hispanic and Latino Americans

I believe the term “End of white America” means the ending of white’s believing and acting their more superior than other races. I believe the term white America comes from the way whites are being able to do things and get away with things without being enforced as in the same way as in minorities. As in example if any minority will kill a innocent victim they would be arrested and sentence to prison, while any white individual can go to a school, daycare, movie’s, etc., and shoot the building…

African Americans in New York, the struggle for blacks in Harlem, and the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout the 1880’s and the 1890’s, Harlem went through an extravagant transformation. Harlem went through a chain of cultures. Finally, in the span of ten years, the chain ended with African Americans. Whenever the people of Harlem transformed,…

The roles of African American actors and actresses in popular Hollywood films can be grouped into three categories: rags to riches, gangsta and hood life, and segregation. When African American actors are portrayed in different roles, they seem to receive many negative reviews. In recent years, actor Kenneth Branagh was cast as a Idris Elba, a Nordic god, in Thor. There was debate about whether or not a man of color should play the character, but Branagh defends himself by saying that Elizabeth…

Association. On the other hand, Jeremy Lin is an Asian Americans who has the common physique as a basketball player. Jeremy Lin grew in the American basketball system. In Jeremy Lin’s model minority problem, Maxwell Leung, the author, is talking about the racial discrimination which is derived from racial stereotype in the United States. Asian Americans usually seem “the model minority” to the others. Therefore, people tend to think Asian Americans have less or…

Although the gap between black people and white people has gotten smaller, it still exists in the United States. Slavery and that time period was the initial cause for the divide, but equality has never truly been established. Many white people still think of themselves as superior, even if unconsciously. Americans, black and white, can never actually come together and move on from the past if the present is not fair either. For white people, it is hard to understand the struggle a black person…

by Lorraine Hansberry and Everyday Use by Alice Walker, themes of non-assimilation are very prevalent. Assimilation, in the case of these two stories is where African Americans adapt to white American culture, rather than reverting to traditional African customs. In A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha Younger is a young African American woman who has a busy love and family life. Dee, or Wangero from Everyday Use, arrives at her childhood home as a completely transformed woman from when she left. Both…

public facilities segregated African Americans and Caucasians. Although there were people who were racist towards anyone that was not white, a big controversy that effects the present is between African Americans and Caucasians. Throughout history, African Americans have fought for equal rights in order to have their voices heard and to be able to have input on what happens in the places they reside. Racism, discrimination, and hate crimes against African Americans have always been prevalent,…

their own: African-American Suburbanization by Andrew Wiese examines the forces behind the suburbanization of Black Americans in the 20th century and the challenges they faced in doing so. The author emphasized the importance of black suburbanization for the growth of the 20th century the United States. Establishment of suburbs was critical to the study of Black Americans in the United States. The emergence of suburbs was a representative of the new generation of black American, who were…

African American community is due to the institutional racism that still exists to this day, through the use of drugs, gangs and police discrimination the United States has created an environment for constant racial discrimination. The drug business in the United States is the biggest contributor to incarcerations among black males. According to the NAACP “about 14 million whites and 2.6 million blacks report to using illicit drugs” that’s about six times as many whites using drugs than whites,…

1. Explain why the compassion gap is problematic. From your perspective, what needs to happen to eliminate the compassion gap? There are a plethora of laws in effect that state one cannot be discriminated against for various reasons. However, there are many subtle forms of discrimination that exist even today. In my opinion, discrimination is one of the driving forces responsible for those living in poverty. Subtle forms of discrimination, particularly racism, continues to allow further…