Essays on Race and Ethnicity

Around the 1800’s, a number of factors greatly affected and drove out the Germans and Black Americans from their homeland to migrate such as poor living conditions and the lack of social and economic opportunities. In the south, black Americans faced poor economic conditions such as sharecropping, lynching, low-wages, racial oppression, poor living conditions and...

Introduction History proves that in at the end of the day, people will do what is needed to survive and thrive. When a country’s leadership is wavering and conditions become poor enough that people are starving and dying, citizens will respond. People in Mexico believed that the revolution would bring social justice, so it began....

By February 1920, the Nazi Party was established, with its nationalist and dictatorial ideology. This essay will examine to what extent the Nazi brand of antisemitism was unique and it will address the trends regarding anti-Semitism within politics and society throughout the time period of 1848-1945. Within this, the leaders of Anti-Semitism, the wider discrimination...

Introduction Mexican migration to the United States during the final decades of the twentieth century ranks among the largest international population flows in the world. The number of Mexican migrants to the United States since the 1970s even exceeds those from many European countries in the late nineteenth century (Passel et al. 2012). This wave...

Before the 1953 European settlement, Indigenous Australians have been lived for 50,000 years in Victoria. They were free and had their own cultural identity, speaks many languages, had a very strong connection to their culture and their land. Their lifestyle was healthy which was based on the hunter-gatherer culture, which consists of physical activity and...

The education received by indigenous children, particularly in remote areas, is not adequate or equivalent to what other Australian children have access to in cities and larger regional towns. Wilcannia Central School in a remote part of north-western New South Wales is a reception to year 12 school with 67 students, 94% of which are...

Indigenous peoples worldwide are subject to marginalisation and discrimination, systematically experiencing poorer health than do majority groups. In Africa, poor health in the general population is widely recognised with lower health status of Indigenous peoples, however it is rarely noted. Defining Africa’s indigenous group is probably the most complicated due to the lack of recognition...

1. Introduction Over 17 million Asian or Asian-American people have classified themselves in the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau, yet this flourishing population has been rendered unseen and unapparent in Hollywood films (,). Today, only a handful of Asians invisibly comprise Hollywood’s leading roles. Since the endless beginning of Hollywood, Asians have been specifically tyrannized with...

According to a 2010 study 17 million people in the US identify with the ethnicity of Asian or Asian American so why has white washing has always been a problem in Hollywood with countless movies with a white male lead role, and the first movie with an a all Asian cast in 25 years released...

Increasing Racism towards Asians and Asian Americans  Coronavirus and Racism We’ve all come to know the Coronavirus since these last couple of months and we are also getting to see how drastic and deadly it is. It has single-handedly made the human race vulnerable and scared. The cases are still increasing very rapidly until to...