Shaping American Cultures Throughout the 1960s‚ there was a cultural phenomenon that started in the United States and spread like wildfire to multiple other cultures in the world. This phenomenon was also known as countercultures. This decade raised the 76.4 million Americans born during the baby boom generation. These adolescents entered their teen years during the 1960s and they definitely embraced a multitude new standards‚ dramatically different from the way their parents were raised. While
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Hardships and Opportunities African Americans The outbreak of the Second World War brought many changes at home‚ and aboard for both minorities and white Americans. As men began to leave off to Europe and the Pacific‚ the nation was experiencing a large transition in social structure and demography. An overseas conflict made numerous industrial jobs available in the United States. Upon the war’s eruption‚ various minorities along with African Americans joined the city work force‚ all ultimately
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people killed in street crimes in the city of Detroit alone. Two million people were killed during the Partition violence‚ which again is below the five million people involved in separatist movements in various parts of the country. These statistics reveal that communalism is not as grave and hopeless a problem as is made out to be.I would like to begin my lecture by narrating a small story that typifies communalism inIndia. During the communal riots that rocked the nation in 1992‚ following the
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History Essay Cause and Effect In the American summers of 1964 – 1967 the black Americans were fed up of no change. They had no jobs and were poor. They had protested peacefully for ten years and nothing had changed. John F Kennedy had been killed. The blacks figured they had nothing to lose so they just started protesting in the country’s major cities. At the time of the riots the Black Civil Rights movement was breaking into two groups‚ Martin Luther King and followers that wanted to have a
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would show up to try to contain and monitor these protests that often ended in riots. Protests would start out peaceful but would end in violence when the police used excessive force to try to control the protesters. As stated in Bill Moyers report‚ “the promise of jobs is what lured African Americans to move from the South to the North.” The move north was to get jobs in the large industrial cities such as Chicago‚ Detroit‚ and Milwaukee. So many people were moving into these urban areas that the
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and focus their work on life in the ghettos and the fight for racial equality ("Langston Hughes"‚ DISCovering Authors‚ Gale‚ Detroit‚ 2003.). Music was an important aspect of the Renaissance as well. Many black authors incorporated jazz into their poetry to express the African Americans’ interest in this style of music ("Langston Hughes"‚ DISCovering Authors‚ Gale‚ Detroit‚ 2003.). Although the Harlem Renaissance did not break the rigid barrier between the rights of white people versus the colored
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Gwendolyn Brooks was a highly regarded‚ much-honored poet‚ with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress--the first black woman to hold that position--and poet laureate of the State of Illinois. Many of Brooks’s works display a political consciousness‚ especially those from the 1960s and later‚ with several of her poems reflecting the civil rights activism of that period. Her body of work gave her‚ according
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Mass Media and Racism by Stephen Balkaran Mass media have played and will continue to play a crucial role in the way white Americans perceive African-Americans. As a result of the overwhelming media focus on crime‚ drug use‚ gang violence‚ and other forms of anti-social behavior among African-Americans‚ the media have fostered a distorted and pernicious public perception of African-Americans. 1 The history of African-Americans is a centuries old struggle against oppression and discrimination
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domestic and international crisis‚ 1968 America was divided. The Tet Offensive ended the country’s feint hope that the war could be over soon‚ and racial tensions left many Americans either feeling ignored or fearful for their lives. Constant protest and riots concerning race and the Vietnam War brewed a feeling of insecurity in the country. The feelings of intense nationalism and American pride seemed to have dissolved in the wake racial conflict and Vietnam. The American virtues of freedom and equality
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Malay reps regarding education‚ employment and housing for Malays. Tension grew as matters did not improve. Led to the racial riots in 1964. 6. PAP’s Malaysian Malaysia campaign PAP campaigned for a Malaysian Malaysia‚ where everyone has equal rights and opportunities. October 1964 The Singapore Alliance stated that they would reorganise themselves to win enough votes in the 1967 Singapore state election to form a new government. 7. Events
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