Essays on Race and Ethnicity

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A Research of Harriet Tubman – a Heronie in The Struggle Against Slavery

5 pages / 2341 words

A little African American girl stares out of a window, just as she puts her masters baby to bed. She has no dreams of becoming a great savior, known by all. She just wants what is best for her and her family. Someone yells out...

African American Civil War Harriet Tubman

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The Case of Plessy V. Ferguson and Its Impact on The Lives of Americans

3 pages / 1301 words

On January 31, 1865 the 13th amendment was passed abolishing slavery in the United States. Even though slavery was abolished this did not end discrimination for African Americans. States continued to construct laws making it harder for African Americans to be equal. In 1896, a...

African American Amendment Plessy vs Ferguson

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African Americans in World War Ii: The Tuskegee Airmen and The Red Ball Express

4 pages / 1860 words

Pearle Mack Jr. grew up in a fairly integrated tract of potato farms in Topeka, Kansas. Like many Americans at the time, he was shocked by the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in 1941 and wanted to do something to help his country....

African American Tuskegee Airmen

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Biography of Harriet Tubman and Her Impact on The World

6 pages / 2915 words

Imagine running for your life while leading 300 slaves in the middle of the night not knowing what might happen to you or them. A black African American named Harriet Tubman would shock the world by not just her bravery, but risking her life to...

African American Biography Harriet Tubman

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The Idea of Colorblind Ideology in Contemporary Us Television Show

5 pages / 2218 words

This essay is going to cover how the American television show How to Get Away with Murder, HTGAWM, implements to an extent the idea of colour-blind ideology. It will also examine the show in relation to colour-blind ideology through the stories plot and racial changes...

American Culture Ethnicity

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Puerto Rican Identity in The United States

4 pages / 1700 words

Tato Laviera was involved in the affirmation and transformation of the Puerto Rican identity in the United States. Tato was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Sanchez arrived in Lower East Side of New York at the age of 9. Before he migrated to the United...

Book Review Cultural Identity Puerto Rico

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The Issues of Cultural Relativism and Culture Takeover in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

6 pages / 2526 words

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter” This great proverb was a favorite of the influential author, who wrote Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe. Achebe realized the value of storytelling. As a writer, the story...

African American Cultural Relativism

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Understanding Other Cultures Through Critical Cultural Relativism Perspective

1 page / 649 words

I always thought that because I am born and raised in a Vietnamese household, I already have a firm grasp on the concept of overcoming ethnocentric biases and be unprejudiced and/or more understanding when it comes to other religious and cultural practices. However, that is...

Cultural Relativism Ethnocentrism Prejudice

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Ethnocentrism Versus Cultural Relativism in American Scenario

2 pages / 1046 words

Ethnocentrism is a complex and multifaceted subject. It occurs when a person believes they are inherently superior to another person, when in reality they are both humans, which means no one is inherently better than anyone else. This belief fosters a hostile environment in our...

Cultural Relativism Ethnocentrism

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Depiction of The Genocide of The Jews in Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning

2 pages / 970 words

In his book, Ordinary Men, Christopher R. Browning creates a vivid and heart wrenching depiction of the genocide of the Jewish population living in Poland during the 1940’s. Approximately six million Jews were killed throughout the course of the Holocaust. Thousands of Nazi soldiers, under...

American Values Genocide Holocaust

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The Darfur Genocide: Causes, Effects, and Who’s to Blame

6 pages / 2886 words

Introduction It is not fair when your government, the individuals you voted for and put your trust in have failed you. That is not what they are put in their position of power to do you would expect them to handle their position with high...

Genocide Indigenous People

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Sculpting of Individuality and Community Influence in Kendrick Lamar’s to Pimp a Butterfly

7 pages / 3206 words

Kendrick Lamar’s third studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, works as a continuation of black poetic literary traditions and its uses to document the Black American experience. To Pimp a Butterfly, has pushed Lamar’s status as a leading voice in the new generation of hip...

African American Hip Hop Rap Music

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Why The Black Lives Matter Movement Has to Be Removed

2 pages / 1136 words

The Black Lives Matter movement has been disturbing people’s lives by blocking streets and by creating a false movement to “better” the lives of blacks. One side believes that the BLM movement is not beneficial to America because of the following reasons, the protests usually...

African American Black Lives Matter

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Jackie Robinson – a Man Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier

3 pages / 1287 words

Today we are all speaking on someone who helped make change and broke barriers that people thought would never be broken. In the 1940’s those of color were treated very unfairly, and were seen as lesser people. At this time there was an unspoken social...

African American Baseball Jackie Robinson

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American Revolution's Negative Impact on Native American History

3 pages / 1199 words

Introduction: The American Revolution and the subsequent creation of the American nation are historically regarded as the first milestones in the fight against European imperialism. Thesis statement: While this is true in many respects (e.g. rebalancing power of power in Europe, integration of ethnically-diverse populations...

American Revolution Native American Westward Expansion

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The Causes of Imperialism in Africa

2 pages / 739 words

Imperialism is defined as one country’s domination of the political, economic, and social life of another country. In the late 1800s, Europeans colonized countries, traded slaves, gold, and many other various resources. One of the countries the Europeans colonized was Africa since Africa had an...

African American Imperialism

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The Connection of Food and Identity

2 pages / 1070 words

Introduction Food has its unique place and role in describing identity. It can be central both for group and individual identity. As a group eats it can be asserted its diversity, hierarchy, as well as its unity and disunity at the same time. However, the...

Cultural Identity Importance of Food

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The Factors of Vietnam’s Cultural Development

2 pages / 977 words

What is Culture? Culture is the customs, social instructions, art, and achievements. Culture is forever changing, shaped and modified by the changing of the times, the advancement technology, the terrain, and many other factors. As a nation develops and changes so too does its culture....

Cultural Diversity Ethnicity Vietnamese

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My Point of View and Opinion of The Cultural Concept

1 page / 550 words

What is culture? Culture is a big concept, and it is not just an identification of a country, it is something that represents at all of us. There are many meanings about culture. Some people thing that is just “have education” or “be part of...

Cultural Diversity Ethnicity Vietnamese