Historically Institutional racism plays a major role in hindering the progress of Indigenous people. Institutional racism is addressed in the paper as a key factor in the social disadvantage and consecutive high unemployment rate amongst Indigenous Australians. Australia is privy to a history of wrongdoing against its Indigenous community. Andrew Armitage writes of the British invasion in 1788; ‘the land needed for the colony was obtained by an act of dispossession, assisted in British law by the convenient assumption that Australia was terra nullius (vacant, unoccupied land)’. The invasion was the cause of the ‘land wars’ that ensued and resulted in the massacre and decimation of the Aboriginal people (Armitage, 1995, p. 17).
To Kill a Mockingbird deals with many basic lessons in human nature. The movie exposes many issues that affect most people throughout their lives such as poverty, discrimination and prejudice. It tells the story of Atticus Finch, a lawyer appointed to defend a black man accused of raping a white young woman, and his two children Scout and Jem. It is set in Maycomb county Georgia during the Great Depression. Both of the films have recurring subjects of racial prejudice and stereotyping, during the first five minutes of Crash, a white woman is disrespectful to a Chinese woman, blaming her driving for a fender bender.
The riots came about due to racial tensions sparked by the acquittal of three officers accused of police brutality against Rodney King following a high speed chase on March 3, 1991. It would be easy to suggest that the Rodney King trial and verdict was the cause of the rioting, considering the immediate reaction to the news. However, although the acquittal of the police officers was the immediate precipitant, the Los Angeles riots of 1992 were the result of many underlying macro social conditions - specifically racism, social Injustice, and poverty. The living conditions in South Central Los Angeles in the years prior to the riots were below average. The per capita income was less than half that of Los Angeles as a whole, and poverty and unemployment rates were more than twice as high.
It shows all aspects of the drug problem from 50-year-old panhandlers to suburban teens who stick themselves with the same needles. Poverty in Chicago shows how homelessness effects us all. No matter what multi-billion-dollar corporations might be responsible for the current recession, it is the poorest and most disadvantaged among us that are suffering the worst for it. This according to a new report by the Heartland Alliance, an advocacy group for
The 1997 Bringing Them Home Report documented the systemic removal of thousands of Indigenous Australian children from their families. (Atkinson) The removal of Indigenous children was widespread throughout Australia over a 40-year period from the 1930s. (Young, Zubrizycki) The Bringing Them Home Report which was produced by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission revealed widespread and systemic suffering of the Australian Indigenous community placed in institutional care. (Atkinson, NSW Department of Community Services) The report revealed horrific damage inflicted on the most vulnerable people in our society, Indigenous children. Removal was through official government policy of assimilation of Indigenous people.
Racism complaints have rocketed in the past 5 years and more than 1 in 20 Australians have confessed to being physically assaulted due to their race. Research has shown that there are an array of negative outcomes that result from or are linked to victims of racism; these include, poor mental, physical and psychological health, poor productivity, reduced life expectancy and employment as well as educational disadvantage. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people are generally more exposed to and are victims of racism in Australia. The majority of Indigenous Australians have been effected by some form discrimination due to their race or colour. Racism towards Indigenous Australians is often increased due to the negative portrayals that the media often presents.
Racial profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person’s race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. Racial profiling is a serious human rights problem affecting millions of people in the United States in even the most routine aspects of their daily lives. The debate over racial profiling has become a central element in a much larger history of adversarial relationships between the police and communities of color. Already-existing tensions between police and communities of color became heightened over the past two decades as allegations of racial profiling by law enforcement agents against people of color increased in number and frequency. A "profile" is a coherent set of facts - known conditions and observable behavior that indicate a particular individual may be engaged in criminal activity.
Trauma of War Trauma is a disordered behavioural state resulting from an experience that was shocking, severe, mental or emotionally stressful from a traumatic event. Throughout the documentary “Barbered Wire and Mandolins”, civilians suffer emotional and shocking stress in June 1940, where 700 men were seen as national threats to security, and therefore held up to three years in internment camps. In the short story “A Marker On The side Of the Boat” a soldier reflects on a shocking and severe trauma of a war that he encountered in the city of Hanoi. Both “A Marker on the Side of the Boat” and “Barbered wire on Mandolins” are equally effective in conveying all aspects of trauma of war. Ways that trauma of war is conveyed in both creative texts is through character insights, where in the documentary we get civilians who were apart of the event in 1940, and in the short story we get a soldiers insights on everything that’s happening during the war.
[Accessed 10 May 2015]. Source C Evaluation (Picture of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam with Vincent Lingiari): Source C is a photograph taken during the time when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam handed a leasehold title to Vincent Lingiari, a representative of the Gurindji people. It represents a moment when Aboriginals who were mistreated and abused for the past decades reclaiming their rights to the land. During the time period, the Gurindji people were mistreated, had poor working conditions and were alienated over their land rights. The Whitlam government purchased the land on behalf of the Gurindji people.
Background, 1788 – 1837 The infamous massacre of Aborigines at Myall Creek in Northern New South Wales in June 1838 occurred in the fifty first year after the British began their penal colony near Sydney cove. The encroachments of the Europeans brought years of devastating strife to Aboriginal peoples, who had lived on this country for thousands of years. They suffered terribly, as they were exposed to diseases to which they had no immunity and they died in large numbers. They were driven from their lands, which had sustained them physically and spiritually. Demoralized and debauched, they were coming to be seen as a doomed race.