Essays on Race and Ethnicity

The culture of medicine Western Medicine advancements have been significant in recent years, but sensitivity in respect to culture and consideration regarding health care delivery, are not proving to value the culture and tradition of medicine for Indigenous populations. For many reasons, Indigenous Peoples are...

Native Americans had a significant influence on the farming practices of the early European immigrants into North America. Some of the agricultural practices, foods, and forms of land use that Native Americans used are still used today even though they have been improved to match...

Sarah Breedlove was conceived in Delta Louisiana on dec. 23, 1867 the most youthful of Owen and Minerva Breedlove. She moved to Vicksburg with her sister Louvenia when she was ten. at fourteen years old, she wedded Moses Jeff McWilliams. they had a youthful Alelia...

The America’s “world poet” and a modern-day successor to writers like Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare, Walt Whitman was a prominent American poet, teacher, journalist, and also a nursing volunteer during the Civil War. He was a voracious reader and was largely self-educated. Whitman’s poetry...

Mary Jackson is one of the African American human computers who worked at NASA. She was on a journey of becoming an engineer at NASA to which she was offered the position. However, she needed to enter a training program at a ‘whites only’ school....

America has a past history of slavery, racism towards African Americans. African Americans have been part of America since its early days as a nation. Segregation came after slavery was abolished in America. Public services were segregated for black and white people. Schools were no...

Throughout the entire history of the United States, African Americans have consistently been victimized. When Africans earlier came to America, as opposed to their will and longing were coerced to fill in as slaves and as workers. They became captives to the rich, covetous, sluggish...

Benedict Anderson was a historian and political scientist who is best known for his book “imagined community” published in 1983, he used this concept to explain and analyse nationalism. Nationalism refers to “the territorial expression of an identity”, this shared national identity promotes the belonging...

Police brutality against African Americans has been an egregious issue in the United States since the days of the Civil Rights Movement, with the campaigns in Birmingham in 1963-1964 and the marches in Selma being primary examples. In today’s society, police brutality has become one...

For many decades African-Americans have had many rights of their own suppressed since the arrival of white settlers on American soil. This is much like the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders here in Australia. Many Aboriginals had their own children taken away from them to...

Early in 2017, a new blockbuster movie hit theaters nationwide. Out-grossing high production films such as “Star Trek Beyond,” “X-Men Apocalypse,” and “La La Land,” the movie “Hidden Figures” follows the brilliant minds of three African American women working in NASA. One of these women...

Katherine Johnson was an African-American mathematician from 1953 to 1986 working for NASA. She was a machine which was human. Johnson was a trailblazer at a time when minorities had very few positions in mathematics and science. Her work in determining the routes to fly...

As Katherine Johnson worked to make her unequivocal contributions to America, she also had to be extremely strong in order to battle discrimination and disrespect because she was an African American.  She beat these odds and still earned her place on NASA’s team at a...

Katherine Johnson is known as one out of three African Americans; to work in the (NASA) field , that was hugely overlooked by only white men. Her courage and steadiness , played a huge role being one of the few African Americans to join the...

For many years tons of people have made a huge difference in this world and they have not gained the recognition they deserve. If you think about it everyone gets their knowledge from something or someone. Everything we discover has already been discovered by our...

Police brutality is definitely a pressing problem in the United States today. The definition of police brutality is the use of excessive or unreasonable force by law enforcement when dealing with the public. In recent years, there have been numerous incidents of police brutality, usually...

Edward Hall’s high and low context framework is classified by how certain cultures communicate and the role context or the relevant environment has on their communication styles and patterns. Such context could be body language, behavior, where one is located in the room, and the...

Communication has been defined in many ways by different scholars. It is defined as a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behaviour (Webster, 1828). It can as well be said to be in form of...

Nonverbal communication between people is communication through sending and receiving wordless messages. There are not many differences in nonverbal communication styles in American and Polish culture. In both, the U.S.A. and Poland we agree that eye contact is one of the most important element of...