A group of people who, in my opinion, are still oppressed today is the people of Cuba (specifically the Afro-Cubans). As long as they have the president and government that they have, they will continue to be oppressed. These people are connected to the American Civil Rights era by they too are subject to racism and are politically, socially, and civilly oppressed. They want to be freed from the shackles of oppression and racism, just like African-Americans wanted to be free. But the difference between the both is that Cuba has yet to have a Civil Rights movement, unlike America there is much oppression still going on and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
Reaction Paper There are many problems that people face on a day to day basis, whether they are personal, economic, or even moral. Some problems are applicable to a select few, but there are also problems that afflict many people across the nation, such as inequality and racism. Problems such as racism and inequality have been omnipotent in the United States for hundreds of years. The book, “Righteous Dopefiend,” helps to really shed some light on the problem of racism and how it affects everyone, causing rifts and distrust among the community, keeping people separated, and affecting people’s economic situations. The book “Righteous Dopefiend” is an ethnographic novel.
The Cuban Embargo The Cuban Embargo began in 1959 by JFK while Cuba became communist. The reign of Castro put Cuba into a downward spiral which made once a beautiful country into a poor power abused piece of land. As Cuba separated itself from America we in the long run lost a good deal of close resources which equals money. I chose each book because they both show how both the embargo came into play and how we I have been effected along with what we've done with Cuba since. The difference between these books and many other is that it will give you more then just one example or point of view for the topic.
As true as this may be, Baltimore is quite different and has led many to question this narrative. Simply because Baltimore is a city in which a large number of the leading officials are in fact African American. The citizens of Baltimore themselves say, “it is not racism that we are fed up with, rather wide spread corruption.” In order to understand the situation from their perspective we must look historically at how slaves where controlled in America. Black African slaves were not only watched and monitored by white slave owners, but rather Black Privileged slaves were used to keep the rest of the slaves in line. Needless to say, the regular slaves despised the black masters even more so than their white
As many different people have come to the Dominican Republic through colonization and the slave trade, there is no distinct races in the country. As race is a social construct, each person is entitled to be of whatever race their culture sees them as, regardless of color. The Dominican Republic was also influenced racially by the colonization by Europe, much like Nicaragua. The slave trade brought many Africans to the area and also caused much mixture amongst the races. The Spanish brought much diversity to the land as well as the mixture of people of Spanish blood and the native Amerindian people of the Dominican Republic.
Judge Marvin Arrington, a black judge in Atlanta, confirms that in Atlanta, African-Americans are 54 percent of the population, but are responsible for 100 percent of homicide, 95 percent of rape, 94 percent of robbery, 84 percent of aggravated assault, and 93 percent of burglary. Source: APD Uniform Crime Reports, Apr 2011 to Apr 2012. The real problem is the moral structure deterioration so prevalent around the country, not the skin pigmentation of our citizens. It is sad that more of our black citizens are not more upset about the realities of these statistics as the black citizens seem to be suffering the most acutely as
Also, black housing was significantly worse than white housing – 40% of black housing was substandard whilst only 12% of white housing was. This shows how their treatment as second class citizens extended to every aspect of their lives. However, Christian churches helped provide education for black children in the
Interracial Marriages among African Americans Ashford University Anthropology – 101 September 6, 2010 In spite of current immigration from Africa and the Caribbean, Blacks in America are still viewed as monolith in several earlier studies. In this paper, I will use recently released 2000 census information to approximate log-linear models that underline patterns of interracial and intraracial marriage and cohabitation amongst African Americans, West Indians, Africans, and Puerto Rican non-Whites, and their interracial marriage and cohabitation with Whites. Based on statistics from numerous urban areas, the results will show that, despite lower socioeconomic status, native-born African Americans are more likely than other Blacks to marry Whites; they are also more likely to
This process began in the early 1960s with the arrival of middle- and upper-class Cubans who did not want to live under the Castro regime. In the decade following Castro’s victory, 260,000 Cubans fled the country, mostly to South Florida, which historically had always been the refuge for Cuban political exiles, including two Cuban presidents buried here. Cuban immigrants to the United States numbered 265,000 in the 1970s, 140,000 in the 1980s, and 170,000 in the 1990s. The U.S. government classified them as refugees and provided them special benefits which aroused the resentment of other immigrant groups. In 1980, the Castro regime permitted and even encouraged the migration of 125,000 Cuban’s through the port of Mariél to Florida.
Perhaps no other place in the world is so diversely populated as the Caribbean. Consisting of approximately 7,000 islands, the Caribbean, also known as the West Indies is heterogeneously populated throughout its region. There are Africans, Europeans, Asians, Native Americans and other ethnic groups all living side by side in this enormous archipelago. This mixture between races has caused the Caribbean culture to be one filled with mixed people, and although basically the whole population is racially hybrid, racism in the Caribbean has been an ongoing issue that everyone has dealt with in the region. Because of racism, some people have become diffident with their origins and their skin color and have identified his or herself more with the culture they think is socially superior as for the case of Caliban in Nalo Hopkinson’s the Shift.