There is no such thing as ethnic war 1. ... In terms of emphasis and concern, it came into prominence in the field of International Relations after the World War II era- with the emergence of many new independent countries, and especially after the cold war period- in the pursuit of seeking correlation between instability or conflict in some regional systems with that of ethnic elements of those regional systems. ... In the post-World War II era, increasing patterns of global interdepence in economic affairs, communication and transportation systems, and the penetratio...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Grade Level: High School

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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For Black Americans, this society existed in the south after the end of the civil war. ... The problems with race relations originated in the south during the reconstruction era after the civil war. ... This way, white plantation owners could assert their superiority over blacks and maintain the same social positions that had been in place before the civil war. ... After the civil war, some blacks moved north to try and make a living, but most stayed in the South becoming sharecroppers and farmers on the large plantations. ... In the South, Blacks were used as a scapegoat by the white land own...

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The depiction of Rosie the Riveter was to symbolize the working women of the war. ... The Japanese internment camps were set up by the United States government during World War Two. ... This is not my history, but it is an attractive catchy symbol to glamorize war. ... The women in the camps had nothing to go to after the war. ... However, the women of the Victorian era in America were all experiencing a new found power within sex. ...

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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...

• Word Count: 1644
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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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Dreams are the core of our achievements for without them, there'd be nothing to yearn for in life. In Loretta Hansberry play, "A Raisin in the Sun," the theme is that it is possible to live the American Dream by overcoming barriers that stand in the trajectory of that dream, and being persistent. Th...

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The poem indicates that a group of Northern soldiers are crossing a stream after a victorious battle during the Civil War. Whitman is able to give an accurate description of these events because during the war "Whitman was overcome with the carnage he beheld and settled in Washington, D.C., where for the duration of the war he ministered without pay to sick and wounded soldiers" (Olsen-Smith). "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" is not only about the North winning the Civil War, it is also about Whitman's views on what the country has allowed itself to become. ... The change he wanted was made ...

• Word Count: 1893
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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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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...

• Word Count: 1938
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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Depicting life before and after the civil war, all four archetypes are present in this film. ... He, and other Black directors of the time, took the Black Buck, Coon, and Mammy stereotypes of the era before and modernized them. ...

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One of my favorite childhood memories was going to the carnival with my grandma whenever it was in town. My grandma and I would spend a whole Saturday riding all of the rides and eating as much junk food as our stomachs would allow. Then one year we came across a booth where an artist was drawing ...

• Word Count: 2170
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