Essays on Race and Ethnicity

In the case of Rip Van Winkle, the narration is a myth within a myth. Irving mentions that he found the story among the writings of a Diedrich Knickerbocker who is indeed a fictional character. Irving wrote the story at a period in which Romantic…

From the 1950s to 1960s, California migrant farm workers experienced difficult times, facing unfair working conditions in the fields and discriminated against “white” Americans. All of the Mexican agricultural workers worked in inferior and poor conditions daily, with a low wage. Although providing food for…

The acts of disobedience made a great impact on our future because it is what made society strong. People made a statement using disobedience and it was heard and applied. Just like Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed in and made huge impacts…

The Catholic Church played an important role in the United Farm Workers as Cesar Chavez did too since they helped him make the farmworkers working conditions and wages better. Reading the article The Migrant Experience by Robin A. Fanslow, one might learn that in the…

The Progressive Era from 1900-1920 was not effective in bringing about true progressive reforms at the national level because it had been a slow process by the presidents co-opting the ideas of true progressives, limited trust-busting, which led to corporations expanding abroad, and continuous racial…

Nelson Mandela’s life is full of hardship and suffering, but those who persist and never give up are the ones who accomplish their task. One such person was Nelson Mandela who was born on July 18, 1918, in Mvezo, South Africa. Mandela was the first…

We humans are liable to self double dealing and our encounters may possibly be shaped by powers outside our ability to control which give us a mutilated feeling of reality. The astuteness of that end was made crystal clear as of late as I read…

If we look around at the whole universe today, there are tons and millions of cultures centered everywhere around the globe. With this much cultures in the universe, people are bound to believe that they’re all divergent. Even though they are dissimilar in some aspects,…

The Ambeere is a tribe of people who live in the Mbeere district of the south-eastern part of Eastern Province. The name ‘Mbeere’ is a Kimbeere word that means ‘first’, coming from their belief that they were first to occupy the territory they do today….

Imagine this if we are going to choose from two different type of dolls, a black skin colored doll with curly hair or white skin colored doll with shiny straight hair? Who will you choose. Most of you will choose the second one while some…