Week 6 1. James A. Tyner‚ “The Geopolitics of Eugenics and the Exclusion of Philippine Immigrants from the United States‚” The Geographical Review‚ 89‚ no. 1 (1999)‚ 54-73. In this article‚ Tyner explains the pseudoscience and logic behind the discrimination against Filipino immigrants during the early 1900’s. Using eugenics as justification‚ the government made it clear that America was to remain a white-dominated country with little tolerance for immigrants. A prime example of this anti-immigration
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Wealth Distribution In the reading assigned: “The Dangerous Consequences of Growing Inequality” the idea of wealth distribution is discussed. The reading speaks on how the decline of leisure time among the ninety-nine percent is steadily increasing. The statistics state that wages are lower for the working class than ever before while the income for the one percent upper-class increase exponentially. One example used by the other was the illustration of the ten individuals playing musical chairs
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something profoundly wrong when the top one-tenth of one percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent‚” believes Bernie Sanders. One of Bernie’s main platforms is redistribution of wealth and reduction in income along with wealth inequality. As a country filled with the obnoxiously rich our childhood poverty rate is among the highest of all of the developed countries. We work longer for lower wages than other countries and we shouldn’t have to. Bernie Sanders is looking to over double
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Why income inequality is killing capitalism The economy seems to be on everyone’s mind these days. It has become a bit of a notion really; an idea that something is rotten in the world of capitalism. Unemployment is on the rise and while an increasing number of households are struggling to pay their loans some mysterious group of people called “bankers” are figuring out what to do with their million dollar bonuses. Aside from not being “fair” whatsoever‚ it is becoming evident that this really
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Longtown‚ Ohio has been a location of racial diversity for approximately 200 years. People of different races sat together as a joyful community in this city‚ even before the civil war. The city’s diversity has outlasted slavery‚ segregation‚ and racial complications of other sorts. The ancestry of the folks there is so diverse they are often only called “colored”. Members of the city participated in the Underground Railroad before the abolition of slavery. We can learn a lot from Longtown.
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Racial Segregation through the World Segregation is defined as the policy or practice of separating people based on their race‚ class‚ ethnic group‚ religion or gender‚ especially as a form of discrimination. Racial segregation is not an isolated phenomenon. There are examples of segregation that can be dated back to the earliest stages of mankind. All over the world‚ in hundreds of different cultures we can identify clear examples of segregation either by race‚ caste‚ gender‚ religion‚ age‚ etc
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some other people are not that lucky. My working thesis‚ which is “Although racial zoning laws prevent cities and states to separate those of color and lower income‚ the previous “red tape” laws have long lasting effects in people’s residency and education that are evident in society today‚” defines and explores different way people of color and lower income have to struggle due to centuries of segregation and inequality‚ placed on by the generations before them. Needless to say‚ there are a lot
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Alex Brown English 1221.8 Dr. Bauer 25 April 2014 Racial Segregation Across the United States America faces racial discrimination and segregation. The issues are more prevalent in the South‚ but exist in the North as well. The abolition of slavery and the repealing of the Jim Crow Laws brought an end to the idea that African Americans are inferior from a political standpoint. Southern authors‚ Ernest Gaines and Toni Morrison‚ use their novels‚ A Lesson Before Dying and The Bluest Eye‚ to highlight
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Book talk Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools by Jonathan Kozol The Author The first surprising impulse‚ Jonathan Kozol is a White. The point to be made is that given the content‚ his identity is surprising; but it is also a good thing‚ because he is concerned with the larger picture‚ which is USA. Kozol is an American Educationalist born in Boston‚ and him being an insider‚ for me an outsider‚ makes the matter believable. He is a great writer‚ well known for several works such
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that having racist prejudice means having an unfavorable‚ racist‚ and discriminatory attitude against someone or group of people. This prejudice could be due to the color of the skin‚ race‚ or culture. Regardless of what culture we are‚ we perceive racial prejudices towards our personal and can be seen in violence‚ in children‚ in unemployment‚ in people who were imprisoned and who are now judged by their appearance. At the same time‚ these damages are found in many places of our society such as; in
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