Theme Of Melting Pot By Anna Quindlen

During the Civil Rights Era, many black power movements strived to prevent the New Jim Crow from happening. The black man was being oppressed during segregation and treated like animals. The white supremacy, only visualize African Americans as slaves, people who should not be a part of the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X drove men and women to fight for his or her rights. However, that was not enough to stop the white supremacy from oppressing African Americans. The Civil Rights movement did put an end to public segregation. It did not put not put an end to the laws being made by the government, which is dominated by the white race. In the book, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander discussed how the Civil Rights and black power movements helped African Americans gain their equal rights, but did not help to gain political power. Mass Incarceration is where the African Americans’ lives end because of the social structure created by the government. Blacks are mostly in the lower class because after the Great Depression, Roosevelt only created laws for whites. This allowed the white community to build and move out the cities into better neighborhoods. Leaving the black community behind. The government placed businesses and built big buildings to keep all the blacks in one place. Base on how the black community was viewed as a race and social status, gives this race a higher chance of being behind bars.

Racism is still a very prominent issue in America today. Yes, it has improved from the days of slavery, and we do have a black president; but society is nowhere near equal, and that is not acceptable. White Privilege by Paula Rothenberg truly opened my eyes to the extent of the social injustice on African Americans. Just by being white, one is oppressing another race because the privilege and respect that comes with the skin color. Whether intentional or not, the racism is still there and present and that is not acceptable. Being white, I’ve never suffered from the repercussions of racism, but after reading and becoming more aware of the suffering of African American’s, it is significant to write and spread the knowledge about racism and especially implicit racism. Everyone is surrounded by racism on a daily basis, and it’s important to be aware of your actions and the effects they have on society.

The New Jim Crow book written by Michelle Alexander and Michelle McCool addresses the racial dimensions of the War on Drugs. The book disputes that the federal drug policy purposefully targets lower minority groups and communities of color to keep black people incarcerated and off the streets. The book starts of disproving the idea that racism no longer exists by proving that racism is still very much alive.

Hi, Ann! It is good hearing people breaking stereotypes. I think it is difficult to do, because as you said, it has made you prove your ability and who you are. In this time and age, I think it is especially important to remain vigilant in correcting people who make assumptions based on all the "-isms" that exist. I think it's difficult because of the social media that surrounds everyone of us.

First of all, we have to know the person who described the concept of intersectionality. Patricia Collins is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. Also she was a President of the American Sociological Association Council. Patricia Collins was the first African American woman to hold this position. Collins is a social theorist whose research has examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and nation. As we see, Patricia Collins is a famous lady because she is a sociologist. But, this is not the only reason for that. In my opinion, Collins is a famous lady because of our inequality in race and gender. Around the world, gender is the primary division between people. The social sciences have a branch devoted to gender

When you compare two pieces of writing, you will always find something that they both have in common and something that is different amongst the two writings. Likewise, the article about Immigrants and the story, “All Summer in a Day” have many ways that they are similar to each other and many ways that they are different. They both mainly have to do with how change can affect the way a person lives and how they view themselves.

When I came to college I noticed something I think most college freshman experienced. This was the fact that a lot of people from various regions generally reflected each other. That is to say that people from colorado had certain characteristics in common that were very different from characteristics eastern people or native Montana students had. It wasn't just the Montana students that resembled each other but the Montana teachers as well. Each group generally had distinct characteristics in common. This lead me to the conclusion that it was not a coincidence and that the place an individual is from may lend a hand in shaping individual identities. The degree to which place shapes character is directly dependent

Citizen (2014), by Claudia Rankine, is a book that explores racism and prejudice that is happening in the United States. Rankine incorporates personal encounters, reactions, reflections, writing and art pieces, historical events, and the media to prove the point that racism is still very prominent to this day. For a majority of the book, Rankine writes short pieces about her personal encounters that deals with some form of racism, whether it happened to her or if she witnessed racism happening to other people. Within those short pieces, Rankine refers to herself as “you,” because she wants her readers to see what racism looks like in her shoes, even if the readers have not personally been affected by racism. Throughout the book, Rankine includes several symbols that are important to her that shows the audience that those symbols may be small, but they have a huge impact on how people perceive them. Some of the symbols that Claudia Rankine uses throughout Citizen is the color line, complexion of skin tone, and angry. What are the significance of each?

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 47% of hate crimes are racially motivated. In second place, a tie between religion and sexual orientation account for about 19%. Many people face discrimination every day because of religion, where they’re from, and even what they look like, but it should not be this way. The definition of melting pot is a place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc., are mixed together. Using this definition you could say that some parts of the United states can be considered a melting pot. Living in the united states we are promised certain human rights and we should be able to be who we are without fear of being judged or discriminated against, but for some people that’s not the case. At first glance America may seem like a melting pot because of all the differences between the people here, but after a closer look you can see that those differences are rarely accepted and people are judged for their race, religion, and many other things.

The similarities between these two interesting, yet formal stories is that they both talk about equality of people in the U.S. these two stories explain that America has become involved discrimination and racism which has undermined the concept of unity. We get so caught up about immigrants flooding the United states, but in reality, we’re all actually descendants of Immigrants.So really, we should have

The historical-fiction novel, Soldier’s Heart, by Gary Paulsen takes place in the American Civil War in 1861-1865. During that time, slavery was an immense issue; white people “ruled” and “controlled” the coloured people, forcing them to do work for them. In Soldier’s Heart, on page 16, a scene depicts one of the difficulties coloured people had during the Civil War. On that page, a coloured woman and a white woman have a mini-quarrel with each other before going back inside. Judging from the time period, the coloured woman was probably the white woman’s servant. To add on, the way the coloured woman acted when she was speaking to Charley also reveals information that she must have been the white woman’s servant. Not only that, but what Charley

              Hope (noun): A feeling of trust; A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen

Once they settled into the new location of their old village, they “attempted to reproduce the pace and patterns of its homeland setting” (American Cities/New York/Italians/ Community/social institutions/A Hodge-Podge Collection of Small Village Clusters). Since the merchants, doctors, lawyers and manufacturers from the old villages traveled together to America, the Italians and Jews were provided the necessities they had in their old village, “from Italian cheese to soda-water flavored Neapolitan style” (American Cities/New York/Italians/ Interactions/ Americanization/Little Italy in War Time). Being able to reproduce the settings of the old villages and live within a community of similar backgrounds, Italians and Jews were not as harshly discriminated against as African Americans. It appeared as though smaller ethnic communities dodged a fair amount of discrimination from American citizens due to their larger numbers and sense of identity.

Immigration is an idea that manifests in the identify of the United States of America. It is imperative for students to recall that America is known as a “Melting Pot,” because of the variety of different people who have assimilated into society. There are many people who believe that immigration should be banned, while there are others who support the integration of other groups into American culture. By teaching children about immigrants and their stories, it will promote students to welcome and act hospitable towards Dreamers. With that being said, a lesson based on immigration will also help facilitate community awareness and promote integration. The article I chose from the New York Times is entitled, “President Issues List of Conditions

The Promised Land by Mary Antin, published in 1912, began as an “extensive letter that [Antin] wrote in Yiddish to her maternal uncle… [which was] then translated into English and published, as From Plotzk to Boston [in] 1899" (149 Kellman). Written as an autobiography, The Promised Land recounts Antin’s immigration to the United States from Russia, as well as chronicles the process, and reasoning, to her assimilation into the American culture. In chapter 9, Antin unravels the first four months of her arrival to the United States, attempting to provide a compelling argument as to why she believes that assimilation is the proper course to becoming a successful immigrant. By focusing on the process she undertook of changing her name, her immigrant