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Racism against Arab Americans [290] and racialized Islamophobia against American Muslims have risen concomitantly with tensions between the American government and the Islamic world. [291] Following the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, discrimination and racialized violence has markedly increased against Arab Americans and many ...
Leland T. Saito, Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, writes, "Political rights have been circumscribed by race, class and gender since the founding of the United States, when the right to vote was restricted to White men of property. Throughout the history of the United ...
The University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work created the Center on Race and Social Problems to confront what W.E.B. Du Bois, in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk, described as “the problem of the twentieth century … the color line," and the Race in America conference was held to bring social work to the front and center of the ...
Responses to the case, like many issues in America, have fallen along cultural and political lines, with conservative-leaning pundits and politicians describing Penny as a hero, and progressives ...
By mid-June, American national culture and attitude towards racial injustice began to shift, including the Senate Armed Services Committee's approval of process to rename military facilities named for Confederate generals. [20] American public opinion of racism and discrimination shifted in the wake of these protests.
Support grows for national anthem protests and removal of Confederate statues in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
By early June, at least 200 American cities had imposed curfews, while more than 30 states and Washington, D.C. had activated over 62,000 National Guard personnel into unrest. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] By the end of June, at least 14,000 people had been arrested at protests.
“A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrimination, for example, must be tied to that student’s courage and determination,” he wrote. Scores of colleges responded with new essay prompts asking about students’ backgrounds. Brown University asked applicants how “an aspect of your growing up has inspired or challenged you.”