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Racial discrimination has horrible effects on immigrants and their living conditions in the United States. The conditions in the five points were horrible and while laws were put in place to try and help the area, they were of little … Continue reading →

After reading through the readings assigned in this class, I can understand why people are racist. I am not saying that it is acceptable to be racist, but I can understand how it would happen. Racism seems engrained in American … Continue reading →

Race has been a determining factor in the lives of many people in the United States. Although over the years there have been laws trying to increase the quality of life for tenement dwellers, these laws have done nothing. The government has … Continue reading →

It is interesting to look at the structure of out cities from the eyes of social scientist as Foner did. What seem to be so day-to-day researchers have studies and proposed fro the faults in our society.  Though I do … Continue reading →

“Like a wart growing on the top of a festering sore.” Ew. I can never forget this simile if I tired. I find it interesting that even with the new tenement laws in 1879 that “limited new buildings to 65% … Continue reading →

After reading about the patterns of “white flight”, the bettering of public services in Five Points because of the mere presence of whites and racism being boiled down to a science as displayed by Foner’s example about the claims about … Continue reading →

Race can be so ambiguous sometimes.  It causes debate and, even worse, discrimination.  So many laws that have been passed regarding racial discrimination have not been enforced or abided by.  This is the government’s way of indirectly not following the … Continue reading →

Racial discrimination is rooted in fears of the unknown.  In my ancient art history class we learned about the Greek culture and how everyone outside their territories were considered barbarians.  For many people it is much easier to write others … Continue reading →

Most of this week’s readings focused on racial discrimination against immigrants. Foner’s chapter focuses on the negative stereotypes and prejudice of these immigrants. There was a section in the chapter that mentioned Edward A. Ross, a social scientist who provided … Continue reading →

Once again, this week’s readings were kind of like a summary of what I learned about race, and how it affected neighborhoods. However, I never really paid attention to the different races that made the up the large immigration groups. … Continue reading →