... heroes was a black man. Dorie Miller was a messman on the U.S.S. West Virginia. As black smoke and yellow flames poured out of nearby battleships, Japanese fighter planes were overhead. One came directly towards the West Virginia, and scattered bullets at the ship. The men scattered to their battle stations, as ... kitchen duty. He returned to the ships main deck and took control of a large anti-aircraft gun. He pointed at one of the Zeroes, Japanese fighter planes, and fired. He ripped through the fuselage of the plane. That day he shot down 4 Zeroes. Very few articles mentioned Miller...

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... . Currently, five Asian Pacific Americans make up House members: Eni F. H. Faleomavaega from American Samoa, Robert Matsui from California, Patsy Mink from Hawaii, Robert Underwood from Guam and David Wu from Oregon. The Senate's minority population stayed at three in the 2000 election: Hawaii's Daniel Akaka, a native Hawaiian; Daniel Inouye, an American of Japanese descent; and Colorado's Ben ... Nighthorse Campbell, an Indian of the Northern Cheyenne tribe. Native Americans face a different kind of fate in regard to congressional representation. While a total of only eight American Ind...

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... workplace and are often victims of racially-motivated harassment and violence." In support of its conclusions, the commission referred to its review of court records and extensive scientific studies. Asian Americans themselves particularly complained of a "glass ceiling" which prevents them from being promoted to higher levels of management. Public-opinion surveys also report a persistence of racist attitudes. The ... citizens, acknowledge the impact of material insecurity on this issue openly. These hostilities often boil over into overt racism. As the Chronicle reported: "The descendan...

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... or sub-sets of self termed ethnic peoples and it is obvious that they qualify as a group. In her book Changing Cultures Changing Lives Christie Kiefers (1974) says about the Japanese-American culture: most I interviewed did not apply the word community to a geographical area or to their ethnic group. The important human grouping in their world are kin, friendship, church members ... and club members. These groupings tend to overlap but by no means coincide (p. 5, origainal emphesis) So here in this case the ethnic people did not apply the idea of being Japanese to a larger spectrum of s...

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... to Okinawa, Japan, Formosa, and the Philippines. While in Japan, he says he experienced his first true understanding of racism when other Marines were calling the Japanese "Chinks- and "Japs."" Witnessing that racism towards the Asians sensitized him to the other forms of racism in the world around him (Personal Interview). When his ... 1990 entitled "Race Relations and the Nineties: Where are the Dreams of the Sixties?- In this article he writes about the dreams Americans once had of a future of racial equality, and how those dreams have never been fully achieved. Killian says that eve...

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