Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the PCSW issued a report titled American Women in 1963, which exposed and denounced sex discrimination and outlined a clear agenda for reform. ... During debate over the law, women took advantage of a segregationist Congressman's likely hostile amendment to include "sex" in Title VII, which would ban employment discrimination. ... She went on to explain why gender equality would be even more important for black women than for white women: "If sex is not included, the civil rights bill would not be including only one-half of the Negroes" (M...

• Word Count: 2185
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While the relationships between the Japanese and American citizens in novel are seemingly placid, because of their proximity to each other, Guterson contends that miscegenation is ultimately unattainable due to the cultural biases that keep both races apart. The unwritten laws that dictate the re...

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In Kindred, Rufus tries to get Dana to convince Alice to have sex with him. ... Human traffickers have created an international market for the trade in human beings based on high bidders and demand for sex and cheap labor. ...

• Word Count: 1077
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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). ...

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He also describes how "the male-servants and slaves of both sexes are employed together but the work is no other than what planters themselves do6 ". ... Slaves of both sexes would be employed outdoors, showing disregard for gender for racial imperative. ...

• Word Count: 1094
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Racial profiling has become a major issue in today's American society both on and off the streets. Racial profiling roughly covers the grounds of an individual being searched, pulled over, arrested, or questioned by authorities based on race, sex, or even more so, ethnicity. It is a fact that Afri...

• Word Count: 577
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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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. ...

• Word Count: 1971
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"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...

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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...

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A header in Douglass" newspaper once read, "Right is of no Sex - Truth is of no Color."7 Frederick Douglass broke free from the shackles of slavery, and with his relatively small amount of Freedom achieved great things. ...

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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...

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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...

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This site is dealing with the California Proposition 209 which is "The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatments to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting." ...

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The early twentieth century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. The Progressive era was a time of immense change in America and American society. The progressives, as they called themselves, struggled to improve American society by working toward equality...

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Everyone has felt at one point in their life that they did not belong or fit in because of specific standards and expectations that have been socially constructed by society, for example being attracted to the same sex, being too big in the waist or simply just because they are considered to be the wrong skin colour, whatever the case may be, everyone of these people have wanted to at least once in their lifetime go unnoticed. ...

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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...

• Word Count: 2007
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The phrase "affirmative action" was coined by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when he issued Executive Order 10925, initiating the President's committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive Order 11246. This order required federal contractors to ...

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Affirmative Action has been law since 1961 when President John F. Kennedy signed a bill forcing government contractors to extinguish discrimination due to race, religion or national origin. Since that law came into existence, many changes have taken place to provide a broader scope of protection...

• Word Count: 1980
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This such proposition is worded as follows: "Neither the state of California nor any of its political subdivisions shall use race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin as a criterion for either discriminating against, or granting employment, public education, or public contracting." ...

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