The Infamous Detroit Red and the Ever-changing Malcolm X In a time full of zoot suits and whiskey bars‚ it was only natural that a youth would get caught up with the current trends. For Malcolm Little‚ life was all about his "image‚" or what he wanted people to see him as. Throughout his life he spent his time identifying who he really was and what he felt in his heart to be right. Throughout certain periods‚ he allowed outside circumstances to influence the way he felt about things‚ yet
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argument is that in most situations a person’s environment has a lot to do with who they become in life and that prison time changes a person’s mentality. Santana’s mother was raped by multiple white sailors and impregnated during one of the infamous Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. “When you were born‚ I tried to love you. But every time I looked at you‚ I wondered who your real father was. I wondered which sailor’s blood you carried inside of you.”- Pedro Santana. Since birth Santana’s mother and father emotionally
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Week 6 1. James A. Tyner‚ “The Geopolitics of Eugenics and the Exclusion of Philippine Immigrants from the United States‚” The Geographical Review‚ 89‚ no. 1 (1999)‚ 54-73. In this article‚ Tyner explains the pseudoscience and logic behind the discrimination against Filipino immigrants during the early 1900’s. Using eugenics as justification‚ the government made it clear that America was to remain a white-dominated country with little tolerance for immigrants. A prime example of this anti-immigration
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WWII Study Guide Know the following people: Doolittle led raid on Tokyo and all ships were lost. Boosted moral. MacArthur general in the pacific. ‚ Eisenhower general in Europe‚ D-day invasion‚ Neville Chamberlain British Prime Minister before Churchill‚ appeasement policies‚ Winston Churchill‚ Prime Minister of GB during war‚ big three Tojo‚ Main general and prime minister of Japan‚ main guy Hirohito‚ emperor of Japan during war‚ mainly a figure head Yamamoto Main admiral of the Jap fleet.
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Immigration of Mexicans into California grew rapidly in this period. Many youngsters of the second generation didn’t fit in the American society. They started wearing fancy and distinctive clothes called "Zoot Suits". Serious problems with sailors (it was the time of WW II) caused the "Zoot Suit Riots". Between 1941 and 1945 over half a million Puerto Ricans arrived in the United States. Most settled in New York City‚ which led to the formation of new gangs. Also during the 1920’s the African American
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Midterm Report THEATRE 100 Chicano Theatres Chicano Theatre is a relatively young genre of theatre in comparison to the traditional theatre that date back centuries. It was in the 1960’s that the term Chicano became prevalent in the United States. Chicano is used only of Mexican Americans‚ not of Mexicans living in Mexico. It was originally an informal term in English (as in Spanish)‚ and the spelling of the first recorded instance in an American publication followed the Spanish custom
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are a few. Mary (and her Girls)‚ at number 201‚ keeps The Casbah‚ a "House of Pleasure." Next door (no.203) is Zoot and The Boys. The Jungles live at 205 ‚ the narrator at 207 and Last-Knight the Barber at 209. Life is hard and prospects are poor but "what a wicked and enjoyable place the world was." The characters find peace in their routine which hardly varies from week to week. Mary‚ Zoot and Pretty-Boy are legends. Mary‚ a Pastor’s daughter and accomplished baton-twirler‚ is humorously portrayed
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Edward J. Escobar‚ the author and a member of the Chicana and Chicano studies and history department at the Arizona state University‚ writes about the corrupt and the inhumanity of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and their history dating back in the 1940s. The author narrates about the Los Angeles police who had barbarous behaviors and racial discrimination against the minority group. The brutal actions that led to the name Bloody Christmas involved officers beating up seven men and leaving
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to take his aggressions out on. In another incident‚ a group of Mexican Americans known as Zoot Suitors were targeted and beaten by Navy sailors for allegedly using excessive amounts of fabric for clothing. In doing so‚ Mexican Americans were considered to be hurting the war efforts of conserving which meant they were unpatriotic. This claim couldn’t be farther from the truth; in essence the attack on the Zoot Suitors was simply an attack on a race. Another case of racism can be witnessed in the deportation
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Since the beginning of time‚ youth groups or gangs have been in existence. These groups have had many negative effects on society for many years. These youth groups or gangs‚ as they are commonly called‚ have participated in many criminal and illegal acts that have plagued society. They have been stereotyped with such negative names as rowdies‚ bad kids‚ troublemakers‚ and many other mischievous names. Some of the earliest records of gangs date back to the fourteenth and fifteenth century in
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