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    "The Uniform Crime Report statistics state that blacks are more frequently arrested than whites. While this may mean that blacks actually commit more crime‚ what are some other factors that may be driving the statistics?" "If black neighborhoods are under more police surveillance than white neighborhoods‚ what does this mean for crime statistics?" "Can you give examples of how blacks receive differential treatment in the criminal justice system?" What are your thoughts? Remember to back your comments

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     What is race? Is it “real?” Why or why not? • Race is a social construct that everyone suffers from every day. Over many decades human beans created a racial lens that separates our world into different categories based on skin color‚ hair type‚ and even how we act. Is it real? Yes and no‚ we (humans) made it real. We created this illusion that there are different species in the human race. So‚ in our minds race is real because we made it real! However‚ based on a biological mindset race is not

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    Natasha Patterson Sociology 304-002 Understanding Race In the beginning of the documentary we were asked a couple of questions what is race and if race existed and before taking this class and watching the movie I would have said yes race does exist because growing up I believed race was what we were not who we are. A lot of people have suffered because of race especially black people because we have never and never will achieve the whiteness per say as everyone else who have come to this country

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    The term “race” means to me a group of people with the similar backgrounds and cultures. Race can also be defined as a species of people. Society defines race as the color of your skin but this is a myth. Race is more than the color of your skin; it is your lineage and heritage. It is who you are. The term “ethnic” means belonging to races or nations based on distinctions of race or ethnological. Ethnic is when you relate to a sizable group of people and share a common and distinctive racial‚ national

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    Life for Blacks in the South in the 1930s Can you imagine if you were considered as “property” instead of a person‚ using a lower quality facility than whites‚ and having certain laws on what you could and couldn’t do according to your skin color? This is what African-Americans had to go through until the late-1960s. These people had certain laws called “Jim Crow Laws” that they had to follow otherwise they would be punished with jail time and/or fines. Some even suffered from lynching. Lynching

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    called the cold war. There were no shots fired‚ but each competed to be the major superpower of the world after World War II. One way they tried to become the world superpower was through the Space Race. The Space Race caused ICBMs‚ the Race to the Moon‚ and Reconnaissance Satellites. The Space Race started October 4‚ 1957‚ when the Soviet space satellite “Sputnik” was launched. This led to a massive panic by the American population and government. America was scared that Sputnik was capable of

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    Reading Response 1 What is Race/What is Ethnicity? 1. Why was the social classification of race invented? After reading the book it states that “Race was the modern conception of human differences and human identity‚ as well as‚ a form of social identification and stratification that was seemingly grounded in the physical differences of populations interacting with one another in the New World.”(The Meaning 49) Yes‚ that sounds great but was that the true reason for the classification‚ I think

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    people of different race‚ age‚ sex‚ religion because perhaps they do not handle change well. People all across their world at one point in their life time can have directly or indirectly experienced stereotypes‚ racism‚ and or discrimination. Most likely their race or ethnicity was the basis of why the experienced happened. The concept of race and ethnicity has to be established first among people to get a better understanding of the people they interact with on a daily basis. Race is a concept that

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    What is Race? Many people will define race as a set of biological characteristics and traits that are present is a specific population of people. From some dictionaries that a race is a biological construct‚ of a more or less distinct population with anatomical traits that distinguish it clearly from other races. The functional traits usually refer to the color of the skin‚ shape of the eyes or the nose‚ all of them are from out looking. For example‚ in China the people in the southern parts are

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    Survey on Ethnic Relations 2011 Peninsular Malaysia 24 May – 8 June 2011 Perception towards Ethnic Relations: Sentiment‚ interaction & public policies Page  1 Methodology • Ethnic Relations Survey 2011 Peninsular Malaysia‚ n = 1013 May – June 2011 1013 randomly selected registered voters aged 21+ were interviewed via telephone for the survey Respondents were selected via random stratified sampling method along the lines of state of residence‚ ethnicity‚ gender and age • •

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