As "twenty-four islanders of Japanese ancestry" sit in the rear seats of the courtroom, having "no law compelled them to take only these rear seats" (57), Guterson illustrates how the American sentiment of the Japanese as second-class citizens creates tension and division. ... This stament also highlights how racial tension not only derives from cultural biases, but also from the fact that both races have never invested any time in getting to know each other as individuals. ...

• Word Count: 349
• Approx Pages: 1
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Nearly two-thirds of Hispanic household wealth in 2005 was derived from owned homes," revealed one report. ... In fact, the richest households garner much of their wealth from stock, while middle and lower class families gain their wealth from housing. ...

• Word Count: 551
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When talking about the pro slavery argument, analysts at Boundless.com said, "Southern pro-slavery theorists felt that this class of landless poor was inherently transient and easily manipulated, and as such often destabilized society as a whole. Thus, the greatest threat to democracy was seen as coming from class warfare that destabilized a nation's economy, society and government, and threatened the peaceful and harmonious implementation of laws....

• Word Count: 1706
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is derived from black American oral culture 4. It is derived from black American musical traditions. ... In the aftermath of an untelevised revolution, hip-hop continues in the tradition of its ancestry and pervasively force-feeds America the ugly truth about racism and class disparities experienced exclusively by African-Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Young children could see pretty black woman and men dressed proper and portrayed in high-class society roles rather than in rags and impoverish. ... Sambo is a stereotype that was derived from slavery. ...

• Word Count: 1272
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She is constantly reminded that her father deserves no respect because of the deep black color of his skin, and Emma Lou's stepfather's "only satisfaction in life was the pleasure he derived from insulting and ignoring the real blacks" (16). As founder and leader of the blue veins, her grandmother teaches Emma Lou that she was not a part of the superior class, and her mother sees Emma Lou's birth as a tragic mistake she would never escape. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Challenging the existing mythology might only be achieved in a backhanded manner that minimized the threat to the dominant structure in all of its manifestations and through all of society's various human class and race strata. ... (Gillman, pp. 63-64) How society confronts (or avoids) the truth defines the social norms and "determines- the outcomes for the various classes and castes within the society. ... American culture classifies its citizens based on relatively capricious circumstances that have evolved since the white man encountered the red and enslaved and imported the bl...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In their minds, the North served as their Canaan and is recognizable in certain spirituals, "a distinctive musical genre derived from the fusion of the Anglo-American style of hymnody with the distinctive rhythms and concerns of the slave community".12 Slaves saw that the story of Exodus contradicted the White-American notion that blacks were meant to be kept in enslavement and seemed to prove that the fundamental ideas that slavery was built upon were against the will of God and would come to an end.13 Some scholars believed that much of the African heritage that slaves had prior to thei...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This identity contrasts with a sense of belonging linked with citizenship within a political state, or present orientated affiliations to specific groups demanding professional, occupational, or class loyalties (De Vos, 1995: 34). ... The second part of the construct, identity, has Latin origins and is derived from the word identitas; the word is formed from idem meaning same according to Clark (1947: 187). ...

• Word Count: 3101
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the foreign policy defeat of Ronald Reagan in relation to the passing of the 1986 Anti-Apartheid Act, the setback in administration policy which was derived from growing electoral strength of African Americans was rising Republican concern over the issue of race in US foreign policy. ...

• Word Count: 3701
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate