Mexican immigration to the United States has occurred throughout America’s history. In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo awarded part of Mexican land to America and gave the right to Mexicans in this region to become citizens. Two years later, California passed the Foreign Miners Tax, which taxed the holdings of Latin American and Chinese gold miners. This tax did not affect European miners and was the first legislation separating Latinos and Mexicans from Americans. In 1887 a federal district
Gender-neutral language in the job’s titles: occupational stereotypes in Japan. Introduction. In these days of economical globalization in contemporary Japan English is slowly becoming part of everyday life. For example, most of international companies based in Tokyo are using English as a communication language; moreover some Japanese traditional companies who are doing business globally using written English to communicate with their international business partners. However, I think economic
Intersectionality Intersectional suggests that various cultural, biological, and social categories that include ethnicity, race, class, and gender interact and they contribute towards systematic social inequality. Thus, the different forms of oppression tend not to act independently, but they are interrelated. Intersectionality refers to the idea that the experience of a person is normally influenced by several issues such as gender, race, social class, and sexuality. Considering these factors, they
nothing about their gender beyond a basic grammatical assignment or identification of their accepted sex. Such a usage of gender is of limited utility except as a ‘variable’ in social analysis” (Bradley, 2013). Her work provided an interesting approach towards the concept of gender and explained different theoretical explanations which have further developed gender studies. The internalized belief that men and women are essentially different is what makes men and women behave in different ways. Men
Introduction In accordance with Henry Jenkins argument in “Get a Life!”: Fans, Poachers, Nomads, Jenkins argues that there is another angle to which media fans can be viewed and attempt to be understood with regards to a culture that is not considered widely and often portrayed within negative terms. Jenkins reading emphasises to the readers that fans of media texts are being depicted as a culture which possesses negative characteristics, that which could be considered as taboo as well as another
Street children carry many negative connotations or popular misbeliefs due to engagement in early substance abuse, early sexual activity, delinquency, and either being labeled as orphaned or abandoned. These stereotypes reflect public attitudes towards street children more than the reality of individual children’s lives. Such representations are problematic because they fail to capture diverse realities of these children’s lives. These representations of children
As Richard (1997) writes, “there is nothing like Star Trek…Of all the universes of science fiction, the Star Trek universe is the most varied and extensive, and by all accounts the series is the most popular science fiction ever.” Star Trek is considered to be one of the most successful shows of American pop-culture till today. Consisting of decades of television and films, numerous novels and comics, and merchandise ranging from toys, games, clothing and more, Star Trek is nothing short of a cultural
I. Tentative Title: Rewriting History: Countering the British Narrative of India’s Colonial Experience II. Research Problem Colonization of India by the British has been an essential theme in the novels of Indo-Pakistani postcolonial writers. These writers have time and again used novel as a tool to counter the narrative of colonial literature and to demonstrate the narrative of the colonized native. The use of fiction as a tool to rewrite history has been a well-established practice in the field
INTRODUCTION: Todd Clear’s book Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse (2007) is an analytical look at the arrest and imprisonment rates of minorities and the effects on their neighborhood. Our nation’s prison population has continued to climb for nearly four decades, yet our crime rate has been dropping. He places an emphasis on how these high incarceration rates, usually from low social class neighborhoods, does more damage to the neighborhood than
Introduction Propaganda remains a relatively unformed concepts despite the fact that it was defined by many scientists with different ways. This is reflected in the uncertainty and absence of agreement between several ways used to explain the phenomenon. But still some aspects of propaganda can be studied without unconditional agreement in political and other sciences. Propaganda in many cases is associated with a distortion of the truth and such expressions as ‘brainwash’, ‘lie’, ‘manipulation’