Abstract In this article the writer studies the theme of regional and ethnicidentities that are found in Canadian short stories. The writer examines three different stories for this study. The first story discussed in this regard is 'Death by Landscape' by Margaret Atwood. The second story is 'The Loons' by Margaret Laurence and finally, the writer looks at the story 'The Boat' by Alister MacLeod.
From the Paper "Identity is a common theme in many forms of literature. However in Canadian short stories the idea of the multiple identities is an important theme. In many cases characters show different regional and ethnic identities in the same story. The short stories that will be used to prove this point are "Death by Landscape" by Margaret Atwood, "The Loons" by Margaret Laurence and "The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod". Each of these stories takes place in a different region of Canada and each of these regions has a unique ethnic composition."
A review of Colin Kidd's book, "British Identities: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World,1600-1800", about the rise of nationalist and ethnicidentities.
Abstract This paper reviews Colin Kidd's book about the pre-modern roots of nationalism and the formation of national and ethnicidentities. The paper explains that Kidd's book, "British Identities: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800", examines the central question about the place of ethnicity in the discourses of the era preceding the rise of nationalist identities.
Abstract This paper answers two questions on racial and ethnic relations. Firstly, whether assimilation is realistic or desirable for immigrant groups who have arrived since 1965. Secondly the rank and order of race, ethnicity, nativity, class are analyzed in terms of their relative importance in shaping one's life chances, in relation to American society.
From the Paper "This is a truth that should certainly have been learned in a society like that of the United States, where everyone but the Indians came from somewhere else and had to become accepted in the society that was being built (only the Indians were already here, and even they migrated at some point in the past across the Bering Strait). Yet, American society has continued to treat each new group that has arrived as interlopers. Discrimination has been used against nearly every new group--the Irish, the Jewish, Catholics, Hispanics, and blacks, among others. Group after group has managed to become ..."
A look at the issues of gender and ethnicidentity in Asian American film and literature through the review of the films " Double Happiness" and "The Wedding Banquet" and Maxine Hong Kingston's novel " The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghost
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 8 sources, 2002, $ 106.95
Abstract This essay looks at the issues of gender and ethnicidentity in two films and one novel, Double Happiness, The Wedding Banquet, and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. These works provide the framework from which a reconsideration of ethnic and gender identity can take place. In these works, this reconsideration of identity centers on balancing old structures of identity with new experience and searching for a potential empowerment and confluence in the balancing the formation of a new identity.
Abstract This paper discusses potential causes of racial and ethnic health care disparities. It explores the antithesis that disparities are not insurance-related or related to a patient's minority status. The paper rejects this antithesis and then asserts and provides evidence that, indeed, racial and ethnic health care disparities are due to insurance-related factors and the minority status of the patient.
From the Paper "Almost all industrialized countries in the world implement a health care system that is run on a national level thus providing health care equally to all citizens of the country. The United States is unique in that respect. The U.S. does not provide a federally run health care plan, and as a result, equality of health care among all citizens is not assured. In fact, an individual's access to health care often is correlated to one's socio-economic status, and in many situations, to one's race or ethnic background (Luhman 2002). As of 2002, over 400 clinical studies on racial and ethnic health care have provided evidence showing that across almost all medical areas, minorities generally receive a lower quality of care than do whites (Late 2003)."
Abstract This paper is an outline of gender/ethnicidentity. In this essay, I will explore gender and ethnicidentity in two films and one novel, "Double Happiness", "The Wedding Banquet", and Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts".
Abstract This paper will discuss three immigrations that came to America within the scope of the book: "Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States of America", 6th edition by S. Dale Mclemore, Harriett D. Romo, Susan Gonzalez Baker. By understanding how this text approaches the ways in which these settlers came over to America, we can see what they went through in the cycles of this book of thought.
Abstract The paper explores gender and ethnicity-based inequalities among American workers. The paper provides definitions of ethnicidentity and discrimination and presents a concrete example of discrimination towards a Hispanic male. The paper also offers a short discussion of the book "Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich.
From the Paper "People perceive their membership differently in different groups. In social psychology, social identity theory states that individuals have a need to belong to groups, a fact that brings about an enhancement in their self-esteem. The meanings people attach to their belonging to groups such as racial, ethnic, or gender are integrated into the social identity theory that also shapes individual identity (Brunett and Farr-Wharton 2002; Haslam 2002, cited by Chow, Hau Siu & Crawford, 2004). Social interactions are also shaped by these meanings as shared experience and mutual support are framed by social identity. This applies especially for in-group members - the group to which an individual belongs to, while the group which excludes an individual is considered an out-group."
Abstract This essay critically analyzes what it means to be an American. The author attempts to investigate how the way in which we define ourselves within our racial or ethnic categories affects our identities as Americans.
From the Paper "One's identity and self esteem is constantly being molded by a number of ongoing factors. Culture a factor of many. A persons cultural upbringing predetermines how that specific person will live his or her life. It also determines how that person will respect other cultures, as well as his own. A complex nation is America, and the opinions of Americans can vary greatly. Mary C. Waters relays the concept of ?ethnic options,? which is a term which means the freedom to choose your ethnicity, based on the specific situation. Waters strongly believes that Americans with European ancestry are at a significantly greater advantage over non-Whites in America. Therefore, according to Waters, the ways in which we define ourselves within our racial and ethnic categories, can compliment or vanish our identities as Americans."
Abstract An examination of the relationship between ethnicity and identity as understood as basis structures of individual life-worlds. The essay is divided into two parts. The first part is devoted to sketching conceptual fieldwork, while the second part deals with the analysis of collected data. Therefore, in the first part, the writer explains the concepts ?identity?, and ?ethnicity? and indicates possible ramifications the particular usage of concepts implies. In the second part, identity is discussed as a variable that influences ethnic ideologies one adheres to. In this part he also shows how the level which a particular ethnic group occupies at the stratification level, influences the shape of one's identity. In conclusion, the writer summarizes the findings by suggesting that identity and ethnicity mutually influence each other and they are both complementary expressions of each other.
From the Paper "In the following essay, I am going to locate the focal point of this problem in the one particular community - Highland Park High School. Highland Park is a small town in New Jersey, Middlesex County, where many emigrants from Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America are there. At the Highland Park High School, although not apparently seen, the question of identity and ethnic belonging is still a problem among the American youths. While staying a year at Highland Park, I have been thinking a lot about the problems characteristic for the multicultural societies. All the questions I have asked myself may be boiled down to one single question ? namely, whether ethnicity and identity should be treated as interdependent variables, or rather one of them is more fundamental?"
Abstract This paper takes a look at why culture-clash often occurs when different cultures meet and explains that it is often due to ignorance about the other culture, as well as excessive feelings of pride and superiority by the members of one or both cultures.
From the Paper "Despite its many claims and indeed efforts to the contrary, the United States of America has always been a country of division and segregation. Race, gender and class differences thus even today play an important role in the construction of society, ethnicity and indeed the social construction of prejudicial views. This means that these prejudicial views regarding the superiority or inferiority of any group of people are socially rather than biologically constructed (Lorber in Rothenburg, 2004, p. 54). The tragic thing about such social constructs is the fact that children grow up without critically examining the potentially erroneous views with which they grew up. Indeed, young boys and girls often grow up voicing and strengthening within themselves the very prejudices advocated to them by their parents. The derogatory phrase, "like a girl" (Messner in Rothenburg, 2004, p. 57), is an example of this. Such expressions signify the deep-seated inequalities still prevalent in society, and how these are reinforced in the young generation."
Abstract The paper relates that the English and the Scots formed the first great waves of immigration into the United States and discusses how the Scots faced segregation and ethnic discrimination as an ethnic group, until they managed to become politically influential and financially successful. The paper then reveals that the Scots eventually established their supremacy over the other racial or ethnic minorities that has allowed many forms of intolerance and overt discrimination to exist at the root of the social system. The writer posits that each individual should feel part of the large multicultural group rather than be isolated according to racial or ethnic criteria.
From the Paper "The United States was originally formed of immigrants that came to the new-found continent and settled along the coast. Immigration is still an overwhelming force today in America, which has become the land with the most widespread multiculturalism.
"My own ancestors came from Scotland around the 1770's. Initially, upon their first arrival on the continent many of the Scots were subject to both prejudice and discrimination by the groups of British that had taken control in some parts of the land. Coming from a poor country, the Scots faced exclusion from trading between colonies."
Abstract This paper considers a variety of approaches to the study of ethnicity. In particular, it looks at the formalist approaches of Barth and the recent phenomenological drive towards self-conscious situational categorisation. It discusses how anthropological discussions of ethnicity in the first half of the 20th century were dominated by a conception of ethnicity as a culturally coherent bounded unit. It attempts to show that while this certainly established ethnic categories, it impeded the study of how such ethnic categories and ethnicidentities are formed. It examines the usefulness of such analytic approaches to anthropology by emphasizing how the cultural differences within these units can be critical in the processes of identity formation.
From the Paper "Barth's (1969) radical change in approach was to emphasize what is socially effective. By doing so, he makes us see ethnic groups as a form of social organisation, and point four in the definition given above becomes most critical . In his approach, the features that he emphasises are only those that the actor marks out as distinctive. For him "ethnic categories provide an organisational vessel that may be given varying amounts and forms of content in different socio-economic areas" (Barth: 1969: 15). In many sense, Barth anticipates the post-modernist unease at the application of "our" labels to "them", Barth emphasised that ethnic identity was a matter of self-ascription and ascription by others, not ascription by the analyst."
Abstract The paper compares and contrasts Stuart Hall's essays "The Global and the Local: Globalization and Ethnicity" and "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" with Thomas Erikson's "How can the Global be Local? Islam, the West and the Globalization of Identity Politics". The paper argues that while all three essays are written from a left-liberal perspective, the critical difference between the two writers and their theoretical models lies in how radically the challenge of Islam to postmodernity has transformed our understanding of ethnicidentity in a globalized context.
From the Paper "In "The Global and the Local" and "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities" Stuart Hall argues strongly that the local identities that defined societies up to the 1990s were collapsing under the pressures of globalization and the pre-eminence of multiculturalism. Hall contends that the culture movements of the late 1990s were dominated by the cultural hybridity among the increasingly multicultural populations of the globalized world (Hall "Local and Global" 38-39). In "Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities," Hall expands upon this concept in arguing that what he terms the "great collective social identities" may continue to exist but no longer define who we are - give us the "code of identity" in Hall's words - in the modern world (Hall "Old and New Identities" 45)."
Abstract The paper examines the issue of racial and ethnic bias in criminal sentencing and notes the disparity in death penalty sentencing. The paper discusses the influence of racial perception in sentencing decisions and the concept of stereotyping. The paper examines the harsh sentences for drug-related crimes and blacks.
From the Paper "Numerous reports have established there is racial disparity in criminal sentencing in the United States. The Sentencing Project states that rates of incarceration by the Commission finds racial disparity in jail sentences."
