Although we try to familiarize ourselves with basic history, we as African Americans still make use of the word to show a friendly salutation. The usage of the word nigger by any race is insulting and disrespectful to the Africans that were captured brought to America and enslaved and the entirety of the Black race; the usage of the word shows a lack of respect to one’s self as well as the Black race and a lack of understanding for the history, translation and intent of the word nigger. The N-word’s story is horrendous, but not always predictable. How did the word nigger come about? What is the history of the word nigger?
What is being free in a country if you have no say in government or in any trials as a jury member. Out of the Northern states only five states were completely for giving freed blacks the right to vote. (Document A) Other five states had restrictions on the voting rights of the black men. The other six Northern states did not give the right to vote to the freed blacks. (Document A) If there is no right to vote in a country you are not treated like a citizen.
In these life-scripts, being a Negro is recoded as being black: and for some this may entrain, among other things, refusing to assimilate to white norms of speech and behavior.... It will not even be enough to be treated with equal dignity despite being black: for that would suggest that being black counts to some degree against one's dignity. And so one will end up asking to be respected as a black. Appiah tells the same story about gay identity after Stonewall, but he then adds: Demanding respect for people as blacks and as gays can go along with notably rigid strictures as to how one is to be an African American
The number has decreased slightly. (1990: 11%; 2010: 9.6%) There is a gradual growth in the Asian population visible. From 1990 to 2010 the percentage of Asian people, living in Los Angeles County, has risen by three percent. Clearly visible is the small amount of people with a Native American background or a Pacific-Island background. These ethnic groups can be considered minorities.
How far is it accurate to describe black Americans as second class citizens in the years 1945-55? Between the years of 1945-55, African Americans were certainly treated as second class citizens. They were segregated from the rest of society and the majority of segregation took place in the southern states. This was where black slaves had been transported to in the seventeenth century and were treated as inferior human beings. Because the USA is such a huge country, the individual states of America had a lot of power to run their own state and introduce new laws.
These victims to these horrible things were almost always African American. After the Reconstruction there was still a lot of tension between the blacks and white reconstruction failed for many reasons. The sad fact remains that the ideals of reconstruction was most clearly defeated by the deep seated racism that permeated American life. Racism was why the white south so unrelentingly did not want reconstruction. Racism was the reason why northerners had little interest in black’s right except as a means to protect the union or to safeguard the republic.
8. As many trials on black citizens up until that point have not been treated fairly and that these black citizens have not been able to exercise the same rights as other Americans, the group wants all imprisoned African Americans to be released. 9. In many of the unfair trials involving black citizens, the jury has been biased against the black people, disallowing a fair trial. This tenant demands a trial made of people similar to the people in trial, so in this case black citizens.
Introduction At the end of the Civil War, America faced the difficult task of uniting not only two separated territories of the United States, but also two races long separated by racism and culture. Devastated and embittered by the damage of the war, the South had a long way to go in order to achieve true equality between the former slave owners and former slaves. The majority of the South remained set in racist behavior, finding post-Civil War legal loopholes to diminish African American rights (Tindall & Shi, 2010, pp. 757-758). Southerners continued to marginalize Blacks in their behavior toward ex-slaves and the later African American generation, continuing the escalation of racial tensions through white terror and discriminatory attitudes (Tindall & Shi, 2010, p. 759).
These slaves however, had no rights in comparison to the White man due to the color of their skin. African Americans have come a long way from slavery, genocide, discrimination and prejudice acts, to an era where they can stand, speak and their words would be heard. It was 1875 when congress passes a law that makes racial discrimination in public accommodation illegal. At this time there were segregation among cultures, and race. There were signs for Blacks,
The Social Construction of Whiteness: Racism by Intent, Racism by Consequence Teresa J. Guess* (University of Missouri-St. Louis) Abstract The discipline of Sociology has generated great contributions to scholarship and research about American race relations. Much of the theorizing on American race relations in America is expressed in binary terms of black and white. Historically, the study of American race relations typically problematizes the “othered” status, that is, the non-white status in America’s racial hierarchy. However, the sociology of race relations has historically failed to take into account both sides of the black/white binary paradigm when addressing racial inequality.