Essays on Race and Ethnicity

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Race' as a Natural and a Cultural Concept

4 pages / 1644 words

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. contends "race" is not itself a natural entity, rather a synthetic construct used to degrade certain peoples. He implores society to move forward free from the shackles of categorization, liberating itself from a false reality. While this commentary holds significant merit...

American Literature Ethnicity The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

781

Questioning The Identity: The Meaning of Being an American

4 pages / 1750 words

In The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton attempts to recapture the essence of Old New York, a moment in late 19th century American history when social interaction was dictated by rigid standards of propriety and style. As Wharton explores this milieu through her protagonist Newland...

American Identity American Literature The Age of Innocence

782

Individuals and Community

8 pages / 3593 words

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” These are the words of the 19th century writer and poet Oscar Wilde, and they perfectly illustrate the oft-contentious dispute between individualism and conformity to the community. Indeed, this dispute...

Native American Sherman Alexie

783

Analyzing Chabon Antagonist

2 pages / 937 words

The legends of Coyote go back hundreds of years, finding their beginnings in ancient Native American roots. In fact, the tales of Coyote have no real origin; many American Indian tribes have their own perspective of him. However, one of the most frequently occurring similarities...

Mythology Native American

784

Storyteller Never Dies

3 pages / 1472 words

In Laguna culture, stories are as central as the language that tells them. Stories weave the world together and are constantly being reinvented and recreated over time. In Storyteller, Leslie Marmon Silko layers short stories, pictures, and poems to portray the common theme that stories...

Native American

785

Through The Different Eyes: Influence on National Identity

5 pages / 2405 words

The very nature of travel literature is to inform the population that has not traveled abroad to so-called ‘wild’ places of the cultures and people that lie beyond their own nation, specifically, the untraveled English population. Given the rise of imperialism and great desire for...

Book Review National Identity

786

Cultural Identity and The Importance of Preserving Culture

4 pages / 1619 words

Introduction In our country today, we recognize the importance of preserving culture, which will be discussed in this essay. As we are a nation of diverse cultures, our society is a beautiful blend of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American cultures. However,...

Cultural Identity

787

Cultural Identity of an Indonesian Immigrant

8 pages / 3469 words

Introduction One can become acculturated to the value, belief, norms, or even culture that they were not born into because culture is learned. I was born and raised in Indonesia until I was 17 years old. I considered myself as a Southeast Asian woman who...

Cultural Identity

788

The Rising of American Identity

2 pages / 823 words

In 1607, when the first colony was established in Jamestown, Virginia, the colonists were still essentially British subjects living in America. They were ruled by the king overseas and in exchange for the protection provided by Britain, respected and obeyed the rulings of the monarch....

American Identity

789

Ethnocentrism and Policies for Native American Tribes

1 page / 613 words

Ethnocentrism can be seen most clearly in the policies of the late 1800’s. Specifically, we can see it in the boarding school system where Native Americans were forbidden to speak their own languages or wear their hair in traditional ways. The design of US policy...

Native American

790

A General Idea of American Dream

1 page / 581 words

The idea of American dream is deeply stuck in the American people’s minds. American people strongly believe that if they had work hard enough, one day they will reach the American dream and become successful, even when people are facing difficulties about having a job....

American Dream American Values

791

The Reasons to Justify America's Going to War with Mexico

2 pages / 739 words

The Mexican-American War, one of many controversial wars in U.S history. In a debate over where the Mexican-American border was, and the ownership of none other than Texas. A war like this you never talk or hear much about it compared to wars such as...

Mexican

792

Characteristics that Shaped an American Identity

2 pages / 1071 words

Americans of today’s society view their home country as a melting pot of culture, customs, and creeds. America has grown to be the most culturally diverse nation in the world but this feat did not happen rapidly. The most culturally diverse country in the world...

American Identity

793

Violence in Music and Media and Its Effects on Children

6 pages / 2599 words

We always wonder why bad things happen, maybe the answer is right in front of us but we’re just too blind or na?ve to see it. Most would like to think that all people know the difference between right and wrong. The problem is we...

African American African American History Music Industry

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The View of Frederick Douglass on American Identity

2 pages / 707 words

Frederick Douglass accuses the portrayal of the independent, just, free and individualistic American identity as “inhuman mockery”, falsely advertising that not all people that reside in America possessed the same liberties and freedom that every American was supposed to have. Made-to-order essay as fast as...

American Identity Frederick Douglass

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Representation of The American Family in The Works of Roth and Miller

5 pages / 2295 words

In American Pastoral and A View From the Bridge, Philip Roth and Arthur Miller respectively present family life as a tense realm of activity where relationship ties are easily stretched and broken. By setting their novels in Rimrock, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, the authors offer...

American Identity American Literature Arthur Miller

796

Juxtaposing The Figures of The "American Writer" and "Pilipino Writer" in America is in The Heart

2 pages / 873 words

Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart meditates on the place of Filipino writers within American literature. In America Is in the Heart, there are two “types” of writers that are presented: “American writers” and “Filipino writers.” Carlos Bulosan characterizes “American writers” as ones who...

Asian American Immigration to America

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Carlos Bulosan’s America is in The Heart: Reconciling Postcolonial Conflict

5 pages / 2072 words

America is in the Heart begins with Bulosan’s childhood and traces a difficult immigrant experience defined by poverty, rootlessness and illness and culminates in a remaking of his self through writing. As Rajini Srikanth notes, the novel is “curiously marked by a faith and idealism...

Asian American Immigration to America

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Redefining Asian American Masculinity in Shawn Wong’s American Knees

6 pages / 2857 words

Even in a globalized community that consists of a blending of many different cultures and races, stereotypes still thrive in the modern day. Two persistent and contrasting stereotypes of Asian American men exist: the first is that they are sexually deficient and weak, physically and...

Asian American Novel