Racial Issues

Paper Summary:

The writer examines racial issues in her hometown of Pittsburgh City, Pennsylvania. The writer is married and works at a local school while studying online. The paper discusses examples of racial communities in the city, such as the Jewish-American, African-American, Irish- American, Italian-American, German-American and Eastern European communities. The writer has experienced no racial tension or incidents that she is aware of. The paper concludes that, despite its immigration history, political issues, educational issues, community leaders and the various media, Pittsburgh has not been confronted with major issues on race relations and discrimination.

From the Paper:

"The various media have proliferated in Pittsburgh without discrimination and bias towards race. Pittsburgh is the home of the world's first commercial radio station, the first non-commercial television station, the first "networked" television station, and "mid-western" newspaper (Wikipedia 2006). It is one of the few middle-sized metropolitan areas in the US with two major daily newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and which both have received Pulitzer Prizes and have produced investigative news stories on a national scale."

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