Muslims in America The status of Muslims in America changed radically in the wake of 9/11 (Sheridan, 2006). A small population by percentage (American-Muslims are only 1% of the U.S. population) (Besheer, 2016), Muslims nonetheless received the vast Continue Reading...
USA PATRIOT Act: Discussion Questions The USA PATRIOT Act, as the Department of Justice (2014) points out was enacted by Congress with an aim of equipping those charged with the enhancement of law and order with new tools to not only combat but also Continue Reading...
While the authors' claims are true since the backlash between the two communities or groups are incomparable, Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans have experienced a fair share of backlash after the 9/11 attack. The group has continued to experience Continue Reading...
Asian Indian Muslims in America The current Muslim population in the United States is made of people from extraordinary social, economic, ethnic, linguistic, racial, and ideological groups. While the exact size of the Muslim-American population is r Continue Reading...
America": A Semi-Structured Interview with Mohammed "Mo" Hadi Semi-Structured Interview Questions and Summary of Responses (impromptu follow-up questions are italicized): Question No. When and why did you come to the United States? I arrived in Continue Reading...
Playwright Israel Zangwill Is United States of America in the second decade of 21st century a melting pot -- the kind of melting pot that was envisaged by Israel Zangwill close to 104 years ago? The answer is an overwhelming no. Today more than ever Continue Reading...
1990, United States government passed the Hate Crimes Statistics Act. This mandated that state, local and federal law enforcement agencies report data on crimes that reflected a bias against a person's race, religion, sexual orientation, and/or ethn Continue Reading...
Ciftci, S. (2012). Islamophobia and threat perceptions: Explaining anti-Muslim sentiment in the West. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 32(3): 292-309. This article examines the "nuanced" expressions of anti-Muslim sentiment in the West with a fo Continue Reading...
Race in a Polarized USAOne of the big political sticking points of the 2016 US presidential campaign was immigration. Many on the Left viewed Trumps campaign promise to build a wall to keep out illegal immigrants coming across the Mexico-US border as Continue Reading...
Pyong Min's Mass Migration to the United States reviews the vast influx of people from Mexico, Latin America, Asia, Russia and the Caribbean into the United States that has occurred since 1965. The book is a compilation of chapters written by differe Continue Reading...
Muslim and Hispanic Women in Literature Women have been stereotyped and marginalized across the globe and throughout history. Although there have been strides and improvements in the ways women are treated in certain countries, such as the United St Continue Reading...
S. , America's Muslims were put "at risk of becoming the nation's focus of anger" (Dilley, 2001, par. 1) One common misconception about Muslims is that we are violent terrorists when in fact Islam does not allow the murder of innocent people. The K Continue Reading...
Muslim Women/VeilREVISED The purpose of research is to gather new information that adds to a body of understanding about a particular topic or theory. Educational research often examines the beliefs of educators; results can inform teaching practice Continue Reading...
September 11 on the Muslim population in Greater Toronto area This is a paper that analyzes the effects of September 11 on the Muslim population of Toronto. It has sources. The following is a study that reveals the effects of the terrorist attacks Continue Reading...
Identity and Identity Construction Identity is socially constructed, a process that begins at an early age. Child rearing practices at home and school and community socialization begin the process of identity construction (Rogoff, 2003). As the indi Continue Reading...
Immigration and the Muslim Population 9/11 changed the world -- especially in the U.S. in terms of Muslim-American relations and the way the word "terror" and "terrorist" is used to identify or refer to a group of people.[footnot Continue Reading...
ethnicity influences courtroom proceedings and judicial practices. The law making against racial discrimination has reduced the intensity of ethnical influences on courtroom proceedings yet the judicial practices are not free from the impurities of Continue Reading...
Muslims are a family oriented people with religious centered traditions and government. They follow the law of Sharia based the Koran or Qur'an. The women experience a range of individual rights from dressing more liberally with colors and headscarve Continue Reading...
United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a union of seven small emirates along the eastern Persian Gulf coast of the Arabian Peninsula. The city of Abu Dhabi was selected as the nation's capital when the union was created in 1971 and takes up nearly ninety perc Continue Reading...
Primordialism Ethnicity is one of the more fluid concepts in sociology because one's ethnicity is largely defined by membership in a social group. The social group shares a common background, whether through experience or ancestry and they share cha Continue Reading...
Ethnic minorities that were previously discriminated were provided with more chances of experiencing success in integrating the French society as a result of this measure. "The president also proposed requiring 100 large companies to experiment wit Continue Reading...
Senator Rodney Ellis Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis, a Democrat representing District 13 in Houston, has been a member of the Senate since 1990. He graduated from Texas Southern University with a Bachelor of Arts; he received his M.P.A. (Master of Continue Reading...
Turkey is one of the most diverse countries in the Middle East; its boundary with Europe and the ancient trade routes that run through -- not to mention the centuries it spent as one of the world's largest empires, incorporating many diverse groups Continue Reading...
Race and Ethnicity Multiculturalism Grade Course What is multiculturalism? Multiculturalism is an ideology which is defined in different ways following in the varying paradigms of one's culture and knowledge. However, it is generally explained as Continue Reading...
Race & Ethnicity A methodological purist, Gillborn's analysis of the British education system inside the visual vein of race and ethnicity supports a totalitarian failure, plainly capitulated in "Fifty Years of Failure: 'Race' and Education Poli Continue Reading...
"...religious establishment not religious freedom was the norm in colonial America. (Religious Pluralism in the United States) An example that can be given is the influence of other cultural and religious beliefs in the country, such as the arrival Continue Reading...
The determining factor seems to be the religion of the person or group in question as those who claimed to be Christian were granted the classification of "white." This ignorant and racially-based determination continues to plague the American psych Continue Reading...
Western and Muslim Educational Philosophies The Foundations of Function: Educational Philosophy and Psychology Meet the Social Realities of ESL Instruction Education into English as a Second Language (ESL) has become very important in this countr Continue Reading...
Religious Conflict -- Nigeria has a variety of regionally oriented religions, often based on tribal structure and culture. However, the two largest religions are Islam at 50% to a 48% Christian semi-minority. The northern areas tend to be Muslim, a Continue Reading...
Conclusion There has been a lot of confusion on the differences between Arabs and Muslims. The U.S. Federal government has in the past associated Arabs and Muslims with terrorism. It is important for the difference to be understood so that clear p Continue Reading...
A number of studies have been done in recent years to explore the unique effects of a bicultural identity, how a bicultural identity is formed, and what forms a bicultural identity will take. Research integrates assimilation theories as well as socia Continue Reading...
This is not a revelation to those alert, informed, intelligent citizens who pay attention to news broadcasts. Still, the ongoing media bias towards distinct racial groups is intolerable in democratic societies, whether the U.S., Australia, or Britai Continue Reading...
From his authority in Cairo, Saladin worked hard to preserve unity between many of the Muslim kingdoms that comprised the Middle East region. Accordingly, Lane-Poole reports that as dynasties rolled over into new families of leadership in places suc Continue Reading...
And there are always a few racists in any town. But I believe we have a great, open, accepting community. We entertain tourists from all over the planet, and many of them are from ethnic cultures different from ours. They say they feel welcomed here Continue Reading...
