... of reasons, it is easier to make arrests in these neighborhoods as contrasted with, for example, suburban neighborhoods with mostly white populations. Records of past statistics make officers believe they have a sufficient amount of evidence to incriminate anyone who fits these standards. A U.S. Department of Justice report stated that in ... people of color as an occupying army whose role is to protect property rights rather than people and to enforce order against oppressed groups. Statistics show that more than one-fourth of all black males and 16% of Latinos can expect to spend time ...

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... facets in which discrimination, or at least disparity, is obvious. Even whites are forced to admit that statistics indicate that the Black community is disproportionately affected by the American legal system. Controversy arises when the issue of possible causes of, and also solutions to, these variations ... First, in 1984 almost 46% of those arrested for violent crimes were Black, while Blacks constitute only about 12% of the national population on the whole. 5 Overall, Blacks are twice as likely to be arrested when compared to whites.6 This data could be construed to ... might also hav...

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... is comprised of 34 million people, and makes up approximately 12.8 percent of the American population (Barker, Jones, Tate 1999: 3). As such, it is the largest minority group in the United States. Yet, politically, the black ... in this country (Tate, 1994: 3) and the number of members within the community that actually partake in voting continues to drop. In spite of these statistics, as of 1984, a telephone survey found that 70 percent of Black Americans polled "strongly felt that the Black vote could make a difference in who gets ... elected at both the local and national levels, i...

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... still allocating a sense of hopefulness, and high self-esteem. These components of hopefulness and high self-esteem are invaluable elements for the education process. The Digest of Education Statistics estimated the number of ethnic minority teachers would shrink 5 percent, while enrollment of ethnic minority children in Americas' schools would grow 41 percent within the decade. (National Center ... for Education Statistics, 1998). That being said, present day educators should be striving to find innovative and effective ways to reach the growing population of minority children in Americ...

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... a stereotype of smart and nerdy, which sometimes could be a good thing, but the way some commercials portray these stereotypes have a negative affect on the population's self-identity. In a Verizon advertisement, a young Caucasian male is the customer, showing that he has money and is higher than the Asian man. ... as nerdy, African- Americans are shown to be exotic and from an unknown world, or even rarely appear in ads at all. Statistics show that African American's never appeared in advertisements unless shown as underneath whites. "When African Americans did appear, they were shown a...

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... As white women from the Suffrage movement strongly promoted the white woman's vote, in order to denounce an African American man's right to vote, the Birth Control movement similarly promoted the sterilization of the "unfit" as a necessary means of population control and maintaining the white race as superior and greater in number. Sanger public ally approved the forced sterilization of ... than half of CRACK's clients are people of color and a vast majority are women (www.cashforbirthcontrol.com). These statistics taken from CRACK's official website exhibit the slanted campaigning for ...

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... as the country of freedom. Black Americans make up about 12% of the US population and they account for more then 30% of all arrests, 44% of all prisoners and 40% of prisoners on death row (Hunt, 1999:74). An African American child born today has a 1 in 3 chance of ending up in prison (Shelden ... directly targeted and punished in much more aggressive ways than white people. In New York City, where people of color make up about half of the population, 80% of the NYPD stops were of blacks and Latinos. When whites were stopped, only 8% were frisked. When blacks and Latinos are stopped 85 ....

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... both suppress and conform to the policies of equality among the people within their institutions. Those in favor of affirmative action base much of their argument on the history and statistics of diversity and equality within the United States. Opponents of affirmative action often present arguments about the lowering of standards in the aforementioned organizations. This paper will present the arguments ... is the progression toward equality for all. In the United States today, women only account for thirty percent of the workforce even though they account for fifty percent of the popu...

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... college, mainstream the teaching assignments, and include them in all facets of campus life and activities. A diverse faculty provides an effective and visible support system for the increasingly diverse student population. From my own experience, I have seen that minority faculty act as role models, advisors, and advocates for minority students while they expose majority students to new ideas. They are ... (deans, directors, and coordinators) from 66 in 1987 (19.6 percent) to 91 in 1992 (23.2 percent). (Wilson, 1996: 125) Despite the success story of Maricopa Community College, the Amer...

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... 1920s, under which each nationality was assigned a quota based on its representation in past U.S. census figures. The resulting effect has been the rise in non-white diversity population. The increased immigration levels in the United States include the amendments in the immigration law and the patterns of international migration. According to research pertaining unemployment levels ... epidemic that is plaguing schools across the nation. Often students are suspended, expelled or even arrested for minor offenses that leave visits to the principal's office a thing of the past. Statistics ...

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... only source of information about African Americans, Latinos, etc. is through the media. Therefore, the degree to which a minority is ridiculed in the media directly affects the image that a rural population has of that minority. Although, more urban areas may have more interaction amongst ethnic minorities and the majority, the minority image portrayed in the media still carries some weight in ... , are two primary explanations for the flaw in Clark's model. The first explanation is simply that the minds of both the media producers and audience have been opened by African American presen...

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... legacy of white-supremacy, the evolution of class divisions, violence among the races, and breakthroughs in discrimination; many times using nothing more than his own opinions of history and undocumented statistics. In America today, it is commonly understood that there is a great multitude of prejudices. Whites still prejudice against minorities. Some minorities now prejudice against Whites. Tall people prejudice ... "For one generation - thirty-five years - we have embarked on a multiracial democracy with significant breakthroughs and glaring silences." (665). His distinction of democr...

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