1. Rights for Homosexuality - Gay is the New Black
The order instructed federal government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin" (Kennedy, EO 10925, 1961). ... These laws and regulations are designed and implemented in an attempt to prevent and in some cases "correct past" inequities and discrimination based upon a person's race, sex, religion, creed, national origin, physical ability, and age. ...
In the 1950's, sociologist Talcott Parsons concluded that in the middle-class suburban family the masculine personality tends to be goal-oriented interests, needs and functions, presumably in whatever social system both sexes are involved, while the feminine personality tends more to the primacy of expressive interests, needs and functions. ... According to psychodynamic theories, females and males develop different personality structures as a result of early-childhood experiences with their caretakers and identification with the same-sex parent. ...
Johnson and Raphael hypothesize that this is because "male incarceration lowers the sex ratio (male to female), disrupts the continuity of heterosexual relationships, and increases the exposure of incarcerated men to high-risk sex amid a population with a high prevalence of HIV" (Johnson and Raphael 2009). ...
Marriage and closer relationships are considered as a bond of comfort and support. In this case, important factors or consequences that call for physical and mental health or emotional leverage is adjusted for the well-being of the relationship overall. However, depressive symptoms caused by elevate...
Originally released in 2004, the film Crash did not qualify for the following year's Academy Awards; however it was considered for the most prestigious award within the film industry, an Oscar. While Paul Haggis created the film on an attempt to minimize racial prejudice, the film revealed how the...
But, it should be noted that Black American women were undervalued for a doubly-disadvantage; apart from their race, there also exists the fact of their sex, female being in a patriarch society, women have been always considered in a lower status than men. ...
Old Racism Old racism originated in the 16th century with the beginning of chattel slavery. When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. In essence, chattel s...
Subject matter can include but is not limited to racism, sex, drugs, murder, history, politics, and countless other subjects that tend to make audiences a little uncomfortable if not delivered strategically or in this case rhythmically. ...
"The media's the most powerful entity on earth because they control the minds of the masses."" Malcolm X. Television has become a viable affiliate in majority households in the United States. According to statisticsbrain.com the average American spends 35 hours a week watching TV", then spending i...
As one of the most representative social animals, human beings keep seeking for their identity and belonging throughout their lives. However, it is common that during such seeking process they would confront all kinds of barriers from society and groups that prevent them from their destination. In t...
The media and mainstream social science research play major roles in characterizing the Black family. One of the most important findings is that, typically, the African-American family has been marked as dysfunctional; we do not fit the middle-class white norms of the family. The media has recogni...
Since the time of slavery, African American women have endured many hardships. This group has suffered such injustices as racial prejudice, social and sexual discrimination. Women are constantly being placed under stereotypical microscopes. Black women have succeeded in the world today despit...
Throughout American history and even to this day, African Americans have always struggled for their rights. Jill Karson, a published author states, "Many consider the civil rights movement to have begun not in the 1950's, but when African Americans were first brought in chains, centuries earlier to...
In 1968, Anne Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi. Her book is a startling depiction of what it was like to grow up a poor, southern African American. Through her revelation of the tremendous amounts of racial discrimination and prejudice that African Americans faced in t...
The Comet and Aye and Gomorrah are two science fiction short stories that discuss racism and sexuality in post-apocalypses, respectively. In The Comet, W.E.B. Du Bois describes the relationship between a black man, Jim, and a white woman, Julia, after a comet hits New York City and kills everyone ex...
We have been taught since elementary school that the pilgrims journeyed away from Europe to escape from the oppression of the British king to be free in the new land of the Americas. There's always the story of the landing on Plymouth rock, and thus begins the spread of what sparks the debate of the idealism of what it means to be an American. Within this tale, there is always the mention of the Native Americans, the ones who taught us to farm and understand the ways the North American lands worked in comparison to European ones most of the travelers had previously been accustomed. Here i...
Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...
The record label executives also felt that this white audience was mostly attracted to hip-hop music that is produced in its one-dimensional form of gangster rap that promotes patriarchy, violence, and unemotional sex acts. ...