Racism has taken on many forms in America over the past several hundred years. The most substantial or well known is the plight of the African American slaves and the injustices they suffered. Today, a new form of racism is developing; one that has always been around but has now entered the forefront of most Americans minds. This new racism is against members of the Middle Eastern culture and religion. The actions of September 11th did not create a new problem, they just shed light on a problem that we have had for some time. Racism is everywhere in one form or another. To understand it, I think it is necessary to look at the history, causes, and ways to resolve it. HISTORY Between 1450 and 1850, at least 12 million Africans were shipped from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean — the notorious Middle Passage — primarily to colonies in North America, South America and the West Indies. Eighty percent of these kidnapped Africans were transported during the 18th century. Ten percent to 20 percent of them died en route. Unknown numbers of Africans, probably at least 4 million, died in slave wars and forced marches in Africa. In 1619, a Dutch slave trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in Jamestown. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to many poor Englishmen who traded several years of labor for passage to America. The race-based slave system did not develop until the 1680s. In 1638 an African man could be sold for about $27 and serve his entire life as a slave. In contrast, an indentured European laborer could earn as much as 70 cents a day toward paying off his debt and ending his servitude. In 1660 the trans-Atlantic slave trade begins, producing one of the largest forced migrations in history. From the early 16th to the mid-19th centuries, between 10 million and 11 million Africans were taken from their homes. The American colonies began enacting laws that defined and regulated slave relations, including a provision that black slaves, and the children of women slaves, would serve for life. Slave owners gave a great deal of attention to the education and training of the ideal slave. In general, there were five steps in molding the character of a slave: strict discipline, a sense of his own inferiority, belief in the master’s superiority, acceptance of the master’s standards and a deep sense of his own helples... ... middle of paper ... ...derstand how they could hold these ideas to be so true and the research in this paper most definitely allowed me to take a deeper, un-biased look. I was able to see why they would be unable or unwilling to change things that were caused by years and years of social learning. It most definitely saddens me that there are still many people in this world that hold prejudices against others. I begin to think that the road to recovery has begun and then I will hear a slanderous word uttered against another person or see a terrible story on the evening news. Even the motivation behind some of our wars leaves me wondering. I believe in protecting ourselves, but at the same time things seem to move from retaliation to racial prejudice in many wars. We begin to lose focus on why we are there and who or what we are fighting for. That is a shame. WORKS CITED Spring, Joel. Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States. June 26, 2012 Torraine Walker "Don't Feed the Race Trolls" Huffington Post 04/19/2015 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/torraine-walker/dont-feed-the-race-trolls_1_b_7091716.html
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Spring, Joel H.. Deculturalization and the struggle for equality: a brief history of the education of dominated cultures in the United States. 3rd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001. Print.
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Edgar Allen Poe was a famous American short-story writer, poet, critic and editor born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809 (Cite website bio). Poe was orphaned at a young age when his father left early on and his mother died when he was only three years old (Cite website bio). After being orphaned, Poe was separated from his siblings and sent to live with John and Frances Allen whom lived in Richmond, Virginia (Cite website bio). Poe got along closely with Frances but not as much with John (Cite Website Bio). Poe seemed to be more interested with poetry while John was more interested in earning a wage. Eventually, Poe attends the University of Virginia in 1826 (cite website bio). Poe did not receive enough money to cover his costs,
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During the 16th-19th century there was this thing called the African slave trade which was in the Atlantic world . African slave trade was were people could trade goods for slaves (african americans ) . These african americans slaves would be forced to work long hours for the people who bought them . If slaves were to refuse or disobey their owner ,they were most likely to be beaten . The reasons that people had wanted to have slaves at the homes or works is that there was plenty of slaves , they were very cheap ,strong , and easy to get . Also people wanted them for their labor so that they didn't have to work out in the fields all day , clean ,or watch their children 24/7 .Some people would even make them reproduce and sell off the children or slaves they no longer want for goods that they had given to get the slaves . Also slaves were taken to north and south america to work on coffee, cocoa, and cotton plantations, in gold and silver mines, in rice fields, construction, timber, and shipping or even in their