Racism Among People of Color in Australia
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Australian racism traces contemporary and historical society attitudes, non-compliance to political matters, and government negligence of citizens' rights. Contemporary Australia results from indigenous people and numerous immigration waves from Ireland and the United Kingdom....
Create a piece of art about racism to change the society
Creative writing - 1 pages - Arts and art history
Racism is a key problem in my society; therefore I would love to create a piece of art on racism. Racism is a major problem in the societies we live in today. Therefore, we need to come together and work for the future of our country. Hence I have come up with this idea to...
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry, 1959 - Racism, an inherent theme throughout our times
Book review - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
One of the most important themes in "A Raisin in the Sun" is the unity of the family in overcoming racism. The plot essentially deals with the plight of one family to overcome their personal differences and strive together towards a common dream. The book is about the Youngers, a poor...
Racialization and Racism In higher education
Case study - 5 pages - Management
A Critical Race Perspective on Asian Americans shows that they are often depicted as overrepresented in higher education institutions due to the large number of the East Asian ethnic groups, such as Koreans and Chinese, at the top schools (Nakanishi and Nishida, 1995). The belief of...
Racism as a cultural phenomenon-South Africa and France
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Racism as a cultural phenomenon In recent times, the aspect of culture has emerged as central in the debate about racism. Due to its mode of transmission, culture has a direct impact on the interactions of the current generation. For example, the Japanese population within the...
A sociological phenomenon : racism
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Racism is an issue that has been perpetuated within American society. Minorities of all races have been subjected to the effects of the phenomenon within our country. However, the most publicized occurrences are against African Americans. The actuated racism against this group of...
Racism book review - Brym & Lie, 2013
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The society dictates social interactions among its members. For example, some cultures eat snakes while this is totally unacceptable in other cultures. Other aspects of cultural interaction include nature of interactions between two people from different races (Brym & Lie, 2013). For example,...
Ethnic studies-structural or institutional racism
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Structural or institutional racism is formed by the social, economic, political, or educational forces that foster discriminatory outcomes or give preference to members of one group over the other deriving its genesis from the concept of race. The biological fact for the race has been...
The legacy and effects of racism on the black community
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Rabbit Proof fences movie depicts different policies that Australian government enforced in 1970's. The government took aborigine children from their mothers forcefully and then raised them in training schools. These schools trained them to work as domestic servants and factory workers. The...
Racism, harm and hate crimes
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The term disproportionate harm refers to the idea that the impact of hate crime is different and more pronounced than other crimes. Unlike other crimes, hate crimes are personal. They are not a random act of violence, but a targeted act rooted in hatred towards a particular group's identity...
Racism and discrimination against the Black population in the US
Essay - 8 pages - Modern history
The blacks in Africa lived together in tribes and with the families staying together in the village and leading a life based on strong morals. Each tribe had developed a culture and their native language. According to most Europeans, the Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be...
The measure of America: how a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism, Claudia Roth Pierpont
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Based on Boas's life and achievements, Claudia Roth Pierpont's article ?How a rebel anthropologist waged war on racism' deals with the origins of anthropology in the United States, laying emphasis on the importance of Boas, the "rebel anthropologist?, in the transformation of...
Racism and Canada's marginalized members: A literature comparison
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
Canadians are proud of the fact that they live in a tolerant and multicultural society, but this pride is often ignorant to the fact that racism has played a large part in this country's history, and in many cases it has been systematic and caused much hardship and suffering. Systematic...
Racism in the census: Effects on the Judicial System
Thesis - 14 pages - Social, moral & civic education
What does it mean to be racist? For a person, it would mean having various prejudiced sentiments and a belief that one race is superior to another race. But what does it mean for an institution to be racist? While an institution does not have a personality and is made up of a group of people,...
Environmental racism
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
According to Fredrickson, America was able to largely ignore the “race question” until the American Revolution. Before the war for independence, Jews were mostly sequestered in ghettos and black people on plantations, so the need for a dominating racial ideology had not yet arisen....
Is "To Kill a Mockingbird" (by Harper Lee) a novel about racism?
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
Writing To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee has chosen to make a description of the Deep South during the Great Depression of the 30's through the eyes of a young girl, leaving us uncertain about the qualification of this novel. Indeed, reading the biography of the author, the reader realizes that...
Citizenship status, racism, gender and violence: Aboriginal women in Canada, international sex trade - finding the links and associations
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In the forward to Andrea Smith's (2005) book Conquest. Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, Winona LaDuke, writing about Native Women's experience in Minnesota, writes that Native women in the state, which borders Manitoba, have a ten-times higher chance of dying a violent death than a...
Anticommunism and Racism: Forging African American Identity in a Binary Mirror
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Cold War America was a world of binaries. In a quest for patriotism, white United States citizens defined themselves by mirroring against what they were not: they were Capitalist because they were not Communist, heterosexual not homosexual, coupled not single, Americans not Russians. Black...
Conrad vs. Achebe: The question of racism in Heart of Darkness
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Joseph Conrad said, “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” Only too well does this portray the harsh reality depicted in Heart of Darkness, one that Chinua Achebe defines as profoundly racist. Achebe's points...
What is race?
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Through the many works done by different scholars in the field of racism, various scholars have come up with many ways to define what race is. Malik (1996) defines race as a group of people who have a difference in biological traits and society finds them to be socially significant. Race...
The Issue of Race in the US
Case study - 5 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
The United States, often lauded as a melting pot of cultures, is a nation deeply entrenched in a complex history of racial dynamics. From its inception, issues of race have shaped the social, economic, and political landscape of the country. Its impact spans across education, employment,...
Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee (1989) - Examining Race Relations in American Culture
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As the sizzling heat of Brooklyn summer sets in, Lee's 1989 hit film, "Do the Right Thing," approaches simmering disputes and clashes of culture that arrived and were boiling. Floating in the background, it becomes a formidable formula that helps to see the race relationships of the late 80s...
Islamophobia, Gender and Migration
Presentation - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This presentation is about Islamophobia, Gender & Migration. While Islamophobia can be thought of as the fear of those who are Muslims or assumed to be Muslims, this discrimination and fear have increased and often been justified since the events of 9/11. Migration, another aspect of my topic,...
Reconstruction
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The postwar Civil War era, particularly Reconstruction, was a very changing period in American history. This paper considers the postwar period through a gendered lens that embraces the promise of Reconstruction, the failure of stubbornness, and how women's roles were articulated within the...
Civil rights and race relations
Essay - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
It seems as if in America there is always some kind of race-related strain. There are various incidents of racism that makes a person wonder about the state of our society, not only in the past but throughout the twentieth century. Many literary works have been written in respect to race...
Are Social Networks the Key to Our Happiness?
Essay - 2 pages - Medias
In this day and age, the younger generation is extremely present on social media, or on the Internet in general. Studies have proven that people from 16 to 24 years old spend 7h52 on every type of screen. The Internet became crucial in our lives. You can find the best or stupidest advice on it,...
Iago's victory over Othello
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
There is no question that, like any tragically flawed hero, Othello is complicit in his own undoing. However, the nature of his character flaw is somewhat unusual in Shakespearean tragedy in that it is a flaw which the entire audience is tricked into sharing. Shakespeare takes pains to make the...
Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin, J. (2017) - How can a black man, marginalized and silenced, dehumanized, can see in his struggle the struggle of mankind?
Text commentary - 2 pages - Literature
In the eponymous section of his most celebrated collection of essays, "Notes of a Native Son", James Baldwin, one of the most prominent African-American writers of the last century, explores questions of race through a very personal lens: he recounts his relationship with his father and his...
To what extent can Housefathers truly identify as heroes?
Presentation - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
Non-conforming sexuality has long been a factor of violence and discrimination. Over the years, the gay community organized into ‘Houses': small, tight-knit safe spaces working as families, in which these people, long being harassed, could enjoy their sexuality and culture freely,...
Selling and Advertising
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
"We could become more aware of what we can do to help people. Indeed, there are still many people who need help around the world, for various reasons, and we could learn how each of us can do small things to help them."
