status contributes to the amount of crime. Secondly‚ they discussed differential social organization‚ which includes the differences in values between the communities (Shaw and McKay). A Theory of Race‚ Crime and Urban inequality is explained by Robert J. Sampson and William Julius Wilson (114) and they discussed the effects of community structure of race and crime in urban areas. Another thing that Sampson and Wilson (116) debated was the ecological concentration of race and social dislocations. Finally
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social and political grievances" (HHC) can be voiced through various art forms. Today‚ the Hip-Hop movement (if looked at as it’s meant to be looked at) plays a very positive role throughout the political and social spectrums in America‚ and is helping to push America in the right direction. Hip-Hop has created a lot of social and cultural bridges that otherwise wouldn’t exist today. For example‚ the Hasidic Jew reggae artist Matisyahu is one of the most popular artists today. But would he ever
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Mixed Race America The works of Child of the America’s by Aurora Levins Morales and What It’s Like to be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren’t) by Patricia Smith was because of the direct contrast of the statements “I am whole” in Morales poem verses “…and feeling like you’re not finished” in Smith’s poem. Both statements in these poems are strong‚ stating a completion of a human soul and both poems are in agreement that race is a part of the completion to the human soul. Levins Morales’
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Angels in America Love and Justice Context In 1992‚ American playwright Tony Kushner first commissioned and performed the award-winning‚ two-part play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Kushner developed the play to work synonymously with whom actors play two or more roles. Following the mass success of the theatre‚ Kushner was approached by Mike Nichols to adapt Angels in America to an HBO miniseries‚ where each "chapter" was allocated into one-hour segments for television
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strengthen the country‚ has in today’s America become no more than a necessary evil and catalyst for the cult of ethnicity. In theory political correctness sounds like a very reasonable idea and when looked at very shallowly this remains the case. When it is more thoroughly looked at thought it dangers become more and more apparent. By creating a set of “correct” terminology and assigning each ethnic background a name that separates them from the main culture of America we run the risk of further exaggerating
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Was Othello of African or Arabic descent? In the famous play Othello by William Shakespeare the topic of Othello’s ethnicity is a very widely discussed topic. Most people get to the‚ in my opinion‚ erroneous conclusion that Othello was of sub-Sahara African descent (black). The opposing point of view’s position is that he was of Arabic‚ or North African descent‚ which as I will attempt to explain throughout this paper is‚ in my opinion‚ correct. The main points people who believe that he was
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arrested for committing violent crimes. However‚ many of these crimes go unpunished under the Juvenile Justice Act‚ “on the theory that long sentences are unlikely to help rehabilitate young offenders‚ the new act specifies relatively short terms for offences”(Dolphin). While violent crimes are being committed‚ the juvenile offenders go on‚ hardly punished at all. These juveniles need to be taught that they are responsible for the actions that they commit. The Juvenile Justice System should create harsher
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1. Ethnicity Ethnicity is not a clear-cut term. It usually describes someone’s racial or cultural background but has a whole host of other connotations connected with appearance‚ dress‚ food‚ lifestyle etc. The ethnic majority in a particular place are‚ not necessarily those with the largest numbers‚ but those with social and political power. It is also the case that often terms describing race are fairly meaningless. People from the ‘British race’ for example originate from many other cultures
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Ethnicity is a term which may be confused with race’‚ but which refers to a shared cultural identity that has a range of distinctive behavioral and possibly linguistic features‚ passed on through socialization from one generation to another. There are never clear boundaries‚ cultural or geographic‚ that mark the limits of ethnic groups‚ even though many regard ethnicity as though it were naturally determined. Ethnic differences have been a source of political unrest‚ often associated with religious
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The text in Section A focus on attitudes to race in Obama’s America. Write a paper (400-500 words)‚ task 1 and 3. 1. The first text is by Yolanda Young and she writes about how Barack Obama and his wife have changed the look at African American people. Before America got a coloured president white people did not notice her‚ even though her dark color stood out from the crowd she felt unseen. After Barack Obama became President of the United States and his wife became the first black first lady
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