The end of World War II brought about new flows of immigrants coming from the New Commonwealth (India, a few African countries, the West Indies) and from Pakistan. The Commonwealth had taken part in the war and soldiers had fought under the Union Jack with the British troops, and the UK seemed all the more welcoming in its role of mother country as there was a high rate of unemployment in the Commonwealth countries. From the very beginning, just after the war, ethnic minorities first came from the Caribbean and then from the Indian sub-continent, until about 1960. ... The main ethnic minority...

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Nevertheless, white critics, patrons and publishers in the era of the Harlem Renaissance were critical for the growth of African-American literature, and its new role in the whole American culture. ... Many African-Americans participated in WWI with great passion and they hoped that they could get more respect after they came backed from the war because they were bystanders of whole American culture. ... However, their hopes and passion were disappointed after the war. In fact, the racial problem got worse after the war. According to this historical context, we can know that the national pride...

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Before the World War II, many Jews, blacks were excluded from society, but after the WWII they came to the attention of the Americans, especially blacks that joined professional sports. ... Each ethnic group had its own era when it came to America; so that the Irish came in 1850, Jews half century later, and Mexican-American half century after the Jews. ...

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(Lipsitz 3) " "Although reproduced in new form in every era, the possessive investment in whiteness has always been influenced by its origins in the racialized history of the United States "by the legacy of slavery and segregation, of Indian extermination and immigrant restriction, of conquest and colonialism (Lipsitz 3). ... (Lipsitz 51). " "U.S. wars in Asia over the past five decades have also contributed significantly to this view of Asian Americans and Asians as foreign enemies incapable of being assimilated into a U.S. national identity."... Japanese and Japanese Americans, durin...

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Following the vicious and bloody battles of the Civil War, the South entered a period of uncertainty and chaos. ... In North Carolina Republican Party members, who were seemingly pushed out of power at the collapse of the Reconstruction Era, believed they could form an alliance with the Populist Party to successfully challenge the Democratic Party (white supremacy) and take them over with their "Fusion Politics." ... Bringing me to conclusively decide that the events of the post-reconstruction era served as a foundation for the serious crimes against the Black community, in contemporary times....

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However, in 1876 after several brutal wars, the Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, and Comanches complied to move to certain areas where whites were prohibited (Greenberg 33). ... Polk in the war with Mexico, which started in 1846. ... After the war, filibustering, another tactic of U.S. territorial expansion, was also driven against Spanish Florida, Mexican Texas, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean Islands. ... According to Greenberg, "in order to ˜prove' that Anglo " Saxons were destined to dominate lesser races, leading scientists of the antebellum era, many from the Sout...

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It was a time when a person's social class was largely determined by his or her racial identity, with the whites at the top of the hierarchy, playing dominant roles of the ambitious era, which was making an eager call for the Westward Expansion. ... Those who rejected to move later went to war with American governments, and as a result, many were killed. ... The desire of white Americans to expand the U.S. territories resulted directly into the Mexican-American War, which ended with Mexico's surrender and led to the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 and the Gadseden...

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Even when there was a strong moral opposition to slavery and its spread preceding the Civil War, it did not necessarily conclude with equality for blacks. The young men of the North "who hurried off to war in the spring of 1861 were not motivated, for the most part, by thoughts of emancipation and freedom for black Americans" (Ransom 13). Nearly all of the caricatures black Americans faced, particularly after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery were in essence a defense of slavery. ... There is a lucid connection between the perceptions of the brutal darkie to the perception of the s...

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Before the Civil War, slave narratives such as these were the first to use such dramatic personal experiences of African- Americans in a text. ... Due to slavery and other prejudices that existed during Douglass" era, there was no resolution to his complex social struggle. ... According to DuBois, an American Negro has " two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in the same dark body- (DuBois, The Souls Of Black Folk). ...

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The team also experienced hardship because a few of the players had to quit playing for the team because they were drafted to the army for World War II. ... This is because these men from San Francisco were able to leave and travel America and Canada, which was impossible for any person of color during that era and they were able to provide hope for Chinese Americans....

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