Walking down the street in New York can be a very harrowing thing for some people. In doing so, you hear the Pakistani proclaiming that he has kebabs for sale as the greasy sensation resonated from his cart. You will see the Mexican trimming his flowers outside the corner deli, while a group of blacks ...
In 1949, one baseball player had a .311 career batting average, and helped carry the Dodgers to six league flags (Rader 2002). This player’s life was regularly threatened, not so much because of his talents but because of the color of his skin (Rader 2002:167). This player was Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson is known for ...
A brief summary of the linguistic, political, social, economic, religious, and familial status of the Mexican American, Puerto Rican American, Cuban American, and Dominican American ethnic groups. Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican Americans all have very much in common, yet remain separate ethnic groups, descended from various ancestors. Many come to the United States ...
“You’ve created a Frankenstein’s monster!” Any time we hear this phrase we recognize it as code for someone having produced a force that has taken on a destructive life of its own. (The current quagmire in Iraq immediately springs to mind. Of course, Dr. Frankenstein was a genius; Bush not so much). In many ways, ...
Many scholars of immigration history, including historians, have examined the ways in which ethnicity is closely related to immigration and acculturation. Through metaphors such as the ‘melting pot,’ these scholars have considered both the meaning and importance of ethnicity and ethnic groups. In addition, they have dealt with the ‘melting pot’ metaphor itself, comparing the ...
In Oliver La Farge’s short story “Higher Education,” a young Navajo woman returns to her people after six years of education by whites and discovers that she is as much an outsider among Indians as she had been in white society. Stripped of her native language and traditions as part of her “education,” the young ...
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