99.21642 A Discussion of Affirmative Action - Pros and Cons
Paper refers to four articles critical in different ways of Affirmative Action. As a mechanical method of improving opportunities and correcting the evils of discrimination, AA does not correct underlying racism or other determinants of exclusion. Also, categories have changed as has the society; perhaps help needs to be given to persons, at large, from different class origins, as opposed to ethnic backgrounds or according to gender. Affirmative action has helped many persons to advance but this may also be assimilation into a middle-class of upward mobility seen as most desirable. Several arguments introduced a mainly negative conclusion. Suitable for 1-3 year level U.S. non-Ivy League assignment.
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100.21704 skinheads
Racial supremacy groups have long been part of the societal fringe of all cultures that have encountered races other than their own. This is true of the history of the United States as well. From the colonial origins of the nation, to slavery, the antebellum, and the civil rights eras, groups founded on the precept of racial separation and control have operated within both the fringe and the mainstream of society. The most notable of such groups has been the Ku Klux Klan, which, in turn, helped to spawn the neo-Nazi or American Skinhead movement.
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101.21723 Changes in Profiling Since 9/11
In a New York Times article, appearing one week after the horror of 9/11 in America, a Muslim woman put her dilemma this way, ?I am so used to thinking of myself as a New Yorker, that it took me a few days to begin to see myself as a stranger might: a Muslim woman, an outsider, perhaps an enemy of the city? (Telhami, p.14). She was so used to viewing herself as a lawyer, a wife, a sister, and a friend that it never occurred to her the wrath that might befall such a woman as she. However, it occurred to the majority of the rest of America. Unfortunately, the wheels of discrimination were already in place and it did not take much to roll its mighty chariot forward. In the aftermath of 9/11 and with the increased tension in the Middle East, the United States citizens of Arab descent have endured a growing hatred toward their ethnicity, culture, and religion.
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102.21810 What is bigotry?
Bigotry, at its core, is an expression of prejudice that one?s opinion or point of view is correct to the exclusion of all others. The bigot is a person who demonstrates a very black and white view on the world within the framework of his own morality, faith, politics, and culture and believes absolutely in the universal correctness of this framework. The effect, then, is that when the bigot expresses himself along these lines, the communication follows a very linear path and one that remains significantly inflexible. It is the purpose of this paper to explore the nature of bigotry from a psychological and social point of view.
