This article sets out to investigate whether ethnic favouritism has an effect on the distribution of the public goods in Sub-Saharan Africa and if the onset of democracy decreases this behaviour. The article address the concepts of ethnic favouritism, described as ‘a situation where co-ethics benefit from patronage and public policy decisions and thus receive a disproportionate share of public resources, when members of their ethnic group control the government’ (Miguel, Morjaria and Miquel, 2014)
did not affect European miners and was the first legislation separating Latinos and Mexicans from Americans. In 1887 a federal district court in Texas upheld the right for Mexicans to naturalize under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This upheld the notion of Mexicans to be white in the eyes of the law (Routledge 2007). When the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed, it prevented the majority of Mexican immigration to the United States. Measures were quickly taken to deny legal entry to Mexican laborers
hypersegregated and fall victim to overt racisms more than Asian Americans, who are comparatively privileged due to economic stature and race. This analysis will compare the Native American and Asian American assimilation experiences, noting similarities and differences to elucidate wages of (honorary) whiteness. Moreover, this essay maintains racial/ethnic groups only assimilate to certain degrees; the question remains, at which points are assimilation boundaries drawn and how does this vary across
Lockhart's New Philology, Postcolonial theory, Cultural Studies and Economic History. Cope joins Lockhart's studies to present other forms in which is visible the Mesoamerican’s ability to resist the cultural impositions. This paper will focuses on the notion of race as a floating signifier and on the elite's anxieties and fears in front of the difference and ambiguity of the racial classification. In Addition, I will
Patricia Hill Collins identifies an intersectional analysis over a hierarchical one as the black women have been subjected to oppression in various realms. The unique histories of black women at the various intersections of institutions of power have created the need for “self-definition” and development
Feminist Therapy and Counseling on Empowerment for Depressed Female Adolescents Feminist therapy is influenced by a feminist analysis of society, and provides a model of empowerment for women who are treated as an oppressed minority in society. It consists of a variety of theoretical and therapeutic factors including consciousness raising, social and gender role analysis, and resocialization and social activism. There is research that describes feminist approaches to a variety of psychological problems
support the “institutionalization of gender difference”(61). Mohanty says something very similar, “The assumption of women as an already constituted and coherent group with identical interests and desires, regardless of class, ethnic or racial location, implies a notion of gender or sexual difference or even patriarchy which can be applied universally and cross-culturally”(64). How we put women into categories of having similar interests or desires goes hand in hand with what McClintock is saying
male identity for him that disputes the stereotyping of Korean American men as "passive, feminine and longing for whiteness". In both studies mentioned earlier, all of the subjects do not adopt their linguistic code to embrace of reject their own ethnic identity, but they are using the code to add new elements to their identities as members of young and urban community, rather than changing or rearranging the existing
comprehending these factors of social and health inequalities, these notions have been considered individually with researchers in interconnecting between health and race or health and gender (Mitchell, 2014). The question of whether health is influenced by class differently for the minority Canadians or race influences health in women and men, has not yet been established or investigated (Keung, 2015). Such statistical analysis have created interest, for instance if ethnicity affects health in a