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Race is a social construct that is used to put people into groups for whatever reason. This separation is based off of visible physical differences. Subgroups are created in society when the “dominant” race gives certain negative stereotypes to another group. Our textbook states this in one of my favorite sentences I have ever read, “The acceptance of race in a society as a legitimate category allow racial hierarchies to emerge to the benefit of the dominant ‘races’” (Schaefer, 2015). In her article

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Nationality, Race, Diversity, and Culture. Each of these topics have an impact on every person and group of people in good and bad ways; the top major 2 being Race and Ethnicity. Ethnicity and Race is crucial to determine who a person really is and what also brings out the light to the rest of the world.You will probably hear and see different forms of examples, people and most likely the media,

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increasingly urgent when studying criminal justice. Factors already linked to crime, prevailing stereotypes that influence policy, disparities among racial lines, and the overarching concern of institutional racism are all factors that make the role of race critical to the study of criminal justice system. Criminologists have consistently found that factors such as wealth inequality, unemployment, and poor education opportunity are linked with increased criminal activities. Unfortunately, studies

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the question of raceSpecific Purpose: To inform the audience of the struggle for identification faced by Mexican-Americans as well as provide a brief historical analysis of these struggles. Thesis: Although Mexican-Americans are legally considered white, the inequalities and discrimination they face show how they fail to receive the social benefits that come along with this label. I.IntroductionA.Hook1.Did you know that Mexican Americans are legally a part of the white race?a.Due to the

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The term Race refers to a person’s physical, biological traits that lead to different treatment by others in the society. In modern world race is defined more by the identification of people on the basis of their physical characteristics, it is socially constructed. Race refers to a group that is "socially" defined but on the basis of "physical" criteria. Over the period of time, the concept of race has changed in many different forms and is now less about person’s family or cultural ties but more

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Race was also defined related to hierarchy, in which the whiter the person was, the more top you would be in the hierarchy level. While the darker the person was the more bottom the person would be in the hierarchy level. The races that were on top of the hierarchy, the whites, were viewed as dominate races. An example of how race was defined in hierarchy level was in how the Spanish defined their different type of people in the Casta system. The Spanish encountered Mexico in the 1500s, and when

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Race and HealthWhen Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans a couple months ago the citizens of this country were bombarded with questions on race playing a responsibility of the survivors that were stranded for days to soon be plucked from their rooftops. These people who were living paycheck to paycheck did not have the same resources of the wealthy. They most likely had no insurance, no stable extended family that could lend them a house to stay or even a job to return to after the storm. The

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The Race Beat is a phenomenal novel that explores the struggles of the African American society in the Unites States and the comparison of blacks versus whites in the nation. Not only does it discuss the comparison of those two racial groups but also other races outside of the nation. The book narrates behind Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish economist and sociologist, that goes beyond and above to research the reasoning behind white frustration to blacks in the United States. This tells the story of a nation

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On the other hand, race is a classification system of people based on their physical traits, skin color and inherited characteristics (Difference Between, 2011). The conflict between race and culture has created racism and discrimination. As mentioned earlier, despite the obvious ethical dilemmas of inequality, oppression and injustice surrounding racism, the way it evolved has made some individual ignore its presence. The racial privilege and white bias continues to play an integral part in avoiding

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Race in the justice system isn’t something that is new to the modern worlds talks on how racedeals with justice system have surfaced multiple times from many scholars throughout America.Scholars have made a clear firm stance that race is something that does effect the justice inmodern times and dating back for centuries. Scholars may have different supporting informationfor their arguments but the scholars arugement seems to remain the same. Due to an on going ofracial issues throughout the

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