In the time period of “Passing Strange,” an individual could only check one box for their race, giving the government the advantage of setting up many restrictions to depict ones race. An individual was either: black, white, or Hispanic, never mixed. Due to many laws in that time period, it seemed to be rare to see a mixed child roaming the streets. Nowadays, when one gets to a section about race, he is able to check as many boxes as he wished to show his race. I believe the author was trying to show that even though there are still segregation problems, the United States is coming a long way in that issue.
“Overzealous officials” grill suspicious foreigners “to the point of near panic” (Khan 559). In worst cases, death has occurred Haitians seeking refuge, a man was not allowed to keep his medication while he was put in Krome (Danticant 569). The profiling does not only happen with officials, but many Americans often profile foreigners. Americans heightened suspicion on not only non-Americans, but on Americans with Middle Eastern traits. Americans know “racial profiling is both morally wrong and ineffective”, but they rather be safe than sorry (Chavez 563).
Although in most places in the north they’re was no longer rigid racial etiquette they were aloud to mix with whites, but it remained still that they were poorer and so lived in more undesirable places with poor living conditions so they never really mixed with white Americans anyway. This shows that the Second World War never really had an effect on the lives of African Americans because they still had to deal with major segregation in the south. Although the laws may have changed the attitudes of most White people didn’t change because they were so used to their standard ways of living. However there were changes of attitudes by the government as on December 5, 1946, Truman established by executive order the President’s Committee on Civil Rights. The committee was instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the United States and propose measures to strengthen and protect the civil rights of American citizens.
Some of the attitudes white men had towards these people were “primitive, lazy, devious, and cruel.” (A People and A Nation pg 443) . These attitudes towards these people made it easier for the white men to kill and exploit the Indians. Native Americans, Cubans and Filipinos were starting to out-number in some states and White men were afraid that their superior race and culture would disappear. They were also threated by Cubans and other Mexican-Americans that they would take over their lands and work. White men were also afraid of the different ideas these peoples were bringing.
“Hard Times” Studs Terkel wrote the book, “Hard Times”, to get the American people of what it was like from every situation during the great depression. Terkel called in a memory book in by doing so it just didn’t have historical statistic proof but it showed emotion in each interviewee. It was where some of his colleagues’ shared hurtful memories while other expressed exhilaration, sometimes both. Terkel shared some of his experiences as well. He could not remember the black day of October but he does manage to have blur images he can put together of that horrific day.
Discrimination Against Immigrants It is extremely difficult for immigrants to thrive in any foreign country, especially if their immigration status is an illegal one. The widespread perception that people commonly have about immigrants is that they are intruders who only arrived to any given country to take away that country’s native individual’s employment opportunities, to live on government benefits or to commit crimes. This is based on the fact that when people decide to leave their native countries, it is usually because they are looking for a better life than the one they had back in their place of origin and because of this they may accept jobs and work under conditions that others would not accept, and for example, they may work for lesser wages and without any kind of employee benefits. However, it is usually extremely difficult for immigrants to find jobs either due to the language barrier or because of their illegal alien status; therefore, they end up receiving countless government benefits, which end up being paid for by the common citizen in the form of taxes. Furthermore, some people see immigrants as gang members or even as guerrilla and cartel members who are used to lead a life of crime back at their countries of origin.
(128) In America there exist a parody between skin color and ethnicity: race and ethnicity are often confused and creates questions of identity of the people subjected there under. In the essay” Black and Latino” Roberto Santiago is identified as a Puerto Rican (Latino) with a black skin color. This creates confusion that is foreign to Roberto who, being of Puerto Rican descent rarely considers skin color in his culture. Puerto Ricans are known to have varying skin color ranging from black to white as a result of the mixing of African, Whites and Spaniards. Puerto Ricans, identifying as Hispanic, do not recognize a
Gatsby loves the thought of being with Daisy meanwhile, Tom loves her buts treats her as an object. They both have a lot of money but Gatsby has more because of his business of being a bootlegger selling illegal alcohol and Tom got his money from family. The reason behind why Daisy wants to stay with Tom is because of his money. ” They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made….” (179). What Nick is trying to tell us is that Daisy and Tom are cowards they act like little kids, they try to get their hands on anything they can find and when trouble comes they retreat back to their luxurious lifestyle.
Compared to the relatively easy access of property at the beginning of his life, when Anthony Johnson died, his property was seized by the government because he was considered to be an outsider due to the color of his skin. Thus, as slavery proceeded further in time in the American political and economic system, racism followed. It was not the other way around. Therefore, since it is known that racism was not a direct link to slavery, it must be argued that the only logical cause of racism, then, was a globalization mentality that was held by colonists and the British. The fact that the Spanish, the main competitors of the British, were
Until the late 1960’s, the dominant perspective among sociologists analyzing discrimination was that prejudice and intolerance were the causes of discriminatory actions. Other observers have focused on individual racists and have seen the problem as the individual motivated by hatred of a given race other than their own. Certain areas of American life are seen as transcending racism and sports has been one of these. While it is true that the admission of blacks to the ranks of college and professional sports was slow in coming, it is also clear from an examination of college and professional teams today that blacks and whites coexist and work together on teams in nearly every sport. Yet, a closer examination shows that racism has not been eliminated from the sports world any more than it has from American life in general.