The document discusses issues of race and ethnicity in the United States, including racial disparities in income, poverty levels, education levels, and health insurance coverage according to data from the US Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics. It examines how political and social forces have shaped systems of racial classification over time. While progress has been made since the civil rights era, the data shows continued racial inequalities between white and black populations in areas like income, poverty, and educational attainment.
From a field of 16 Republicans, Donald has come out on top. And from a field of 5 Democrats, Hillary has risen to the front of the pack. Their presentation and public speaking styles, a stark contrast. Many of their political views, too. But the power of an engaging and accessible speech remains the same across both parties and both potential 2016 presidential candidates.
From a field of 16 Republicans, Donald has come out on top. And from a field of 5 Democrats, Hillary has risen to the front of the pack. Their presentation and public speaking styles, a stark contrast. Many of their political views, too. But the power of an engaging and accessible speech remains the same across both parties and both potential 2016 presidential candidates.
I put together this presentation for my local Meetup to show attendees the marketing lessons I gleaned from this past 2016 presidential election.
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
This is NOT about politics. It's about how the two main candidates (Trump and Clinton) SOLD their vision.
Or how they didn't. Or how one did better than the other and consequently moved more people in the battleground states to win.
I won't tell you here - look at the presentation and tell me what you think.
The American Presidency Project contains the most comprehensive collection of resources ... Presidential Elections Data: ... click the slide share on election year for detail .
Response one pod-05One of the biggest changes that has occurred .docxronak56
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One of the biggest changes that has occurred to disturb the patterns that were once reliable was the surge in multiracial movement in the 1990s. This movement was linked to the census designations available in 1990 for racial identification because there were not enough choices to reflect the diversity that actually exists. As Williams (2017) explains, traditional racial categories broke down during this movement which is an important aspect of how people view themselves as voters. Changes in self-identification is an important indicator in how groups vote and respond to elections in general. It is difficult to find trends between voting or partisan choices and racial or ethnic groups when the people who would traditionally have been assumed as members of one group may not identify that way. People who are of African and Hispanic descent, as one of numerous possible examples, may self-identify more as African or more as Hispanic which is determined by more factors than political partisanship can truly take into account. Most recently, eight years with a multiracial president has changed how groups identify with political parties. Jacobson (2016) discusses Obama as having been the most polarizing president in history, up to that point at any rate. During the eight years of Obama’s presidency, divides along generational lines widened and evaluations of his success split along racial lines (Jacobson, 2016).
The most recent election, if one digs past the hyperbole, tended to focus more on what elections mean in terms of power distribution. Butcher and Goldsmith (2017) describe the redistribution of power after elections as a bargain for those who win and a position of potential loss for those who do not win elections or who support the losing party. The fear of power transfer and loss can create a situation where violence is likely. Butcher and Goldsmith (2017) were focused on ethnically fractionalized countries where violence was expected in the course of power transfers and elections but did not find violent responses as much as one would think. Although the focus was on ethnically split countries, the 2016 elections in America did have violent results even though the divisions were not always or solely between different races. The divisions were also ideological.
The ideological divisions between people in America will continue to grow and be the basis for partisan alignment more than race or ethnicity or gender. Boudreau, et al. (2015) examine the likelihood of partisan alignment and voter decisions based on the endorsements of parties and newspapers which are treated as non-ideological signals by voters. The suggest made by Boudreau, et al (2015) is to provide more information on the issues important to the candidate so the voter can base votes on who is most aligned with their policy priorities. The 2016 elections, while still slinging plenty of mud and scandal, really did put policy issues front and center. Regardless o ...
Chapter 5Stereotypes, Prejudice, and DiscriminationHeavily-TawnaDelatorrejs
Chapter 5 Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Heavily-armed police and National Guard forces are called in as racial tensions erupt into protests and riots in multiple American communities in response to a series of killings of unarmed African American men by the police.
A white man opens fire on worshipers in an historic African-American church in South Carolina, killing nine; investigators report that the shooter told them he wanted to start a race war. Supreme Court justices are split five to four in a ruling about the legality of practices that result in housing discrimination.
If you’re familiar with twentieth-century American history, this should sound like the volatile 1960s, as bat- tles over Civil Rights boiled over in many parts of the nation. But what we’ve just described occurred a full half century later, at the end of 2014 and in the first half of 2015. The sins of the past seemed to be repeating, demonstrating that although much has changed, much also remains the same.
The problems are by no means limited to black– white relations, or to the United States. Around the same time period, violence and hatred directed toward Jews throughout Europe and Australia were on the rise (see d Figure 5.1). Laws against pro-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) “propaganda” were passed in Russia. Anti-Muslim sentiment increased in many parts of the West, while anti-West sentiment con- tinued to flourish among large numbers of radical Mus- lims. The prime minister of India decried the continuing (though officially banned) practice of parents selectively aborting girls. As billionaire Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States, he denounced Mexican immigrants as criminals and rap- ists and leaped to the top of the polls (Ahmed, 2015; Fletcher, 2014; Gjelten, 2015; Luke, 2015; Mahr, 2015).
Faced with these headlines, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that progress, in some cases tremendous prog- ress, has been made. The United States had elected, and then re-elected, its first African American president. The Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was now legal throughout the United States. Today more people than ever rush to defend the targets and denounce the perpetrators of prejudice and discrimination. The march toward progress is real, but its rhythm is frustratingly unsteady, at its best a “two-steps forward and one-step back” motion.
To better understand and improve our diverse world, to help the march toward progress acceler- ate in the right direction, it is critically important to understand the complexity and causes of stereo- types, prejudice, and discrimination. That is the pri- mary goal of this chapter. We begin by taking a close look at the nature of the problem of intergroup bias in contemporary life. Later in the chapter we address some of the key causes and important consequences of intergroup biases, and we close by discussing some of the most promising directions in effort ...
I put together this presentation for my local Meetup to show attendees the marketing lessons I gleaned from this past 2016 presidential election.
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
This is NOT about politics. It's about how the two main candidates (Trump and Clinton) SOLD their vision.
Or how they didn't. Or how one did better than the other and consequently moved more people in the battleground states to win.
I won't tell you here - look at the presentation and tell me what you think.
The American Presidency Project contains the most comprehensive collection of resources ... Presidential Elections Data: ... click the slide share on election year for detail .
Response one pod-05One of the biggest changes that has occurred .docxronak56
Response one pod-05
One of the biggest changes that has occurred to disturb the patterns that were once reliable was the surge in multiracial movement in the 1990s. This movement was linked to the census designations available in 1990 for racial identification because there were not enough choices to reflect the diversity that actually exists. As Williams (2017) explains, traditional racial categories broke down during this movement which is an important aspect of how people view themselves as voters. Changes in self-identification is an important indicator in how groups vote and respond to elections in general. It is difficult to find trends between voting or partisan choices and racial or ethnic groups when the people who would traditionally have been assumed as members of one group may not identify that way. People who are of African and Hispanic descent, as one of numerous possible examples, may self-identify more as African or more as Hispanic which is determined by more factors than political partisanship can truly take into account. Most recently, eight years with a multiracial president has changed how groups identify with political parties. Jacobson (2016) discusses Obama as having been the most polarizing president in history, up to that point at any rate. During the eight years of Obama’s presidency, divides along generational lines widened and evaluations of his success split along racial lines (Jacobson, 2016).
The most recent election, if one digs past the hyperbole, tended to focus more on what elections mean in terms of power distribution. Butcher and Goldsmith (2017) describe the redistribution of power after elections as a bargain for those who win and a position of potential loss for those who do not win elections or who support the losing party. The fear of power transfer and loss can create a situation where violence is likely. Butcher and Goldsmith (2017) were focused on ethnically fractionalized countries where violence was expected in the course of power transfers and elections but did not find violent responses as much as one would think. Although the focus was on ethnically split countries, the 2016 elections in America did have violent results even though the divisions were not always or solely between different races. The divisions were also ideological.
The ideological divisions between people in America will continue to grow and be the basis for partisan alignment more than race or ethnicity or gender. Boudreau, et al. (2015) examine the likelihood of partisan alignment and voter decisions based on the endorsements of parties and newspapers which are treated as non-ideological signals by voters. The suggest made by Boudreau, et al (2015) is to provide more information on the issues important to the candidate so the voter can base votes on who is most aligned with their policy priorities. The 2016 elections, while still slinging plenty of mud and scandal, really did put policy issues front and center. Regardless o ...
Chapter 5Stereotypes, Prejudice, and DiscriminationHeavily-TawnaDelatorrejs
Chapter 5 Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Heavily-armed police and National Guard forces are called in as racial tensions erupt into protests and riots in multiple American communities in response to a series of killings of unarmed African American men by the police.
A white man opens fire on worshipers in an historic African-American church in South Carolina, killing nine; investigators report that the shooter told them he wanted to start a race war. Supreme Court justices are split five to four in a ruling about the legality of practices that result in housing discrimination.
If you’re familiar with twentieth-century American history, this should sound like the volatile 1960s, as bat- tles over Civil Rights boiled over in many parts of the nation. But what we’ve just described occurred a full half century later, at the end of 2014 and in the first half of 2015. The sins of the past seemed to be repeating, demonstrating that although much has changed, much also remains the same.
The problems are by no means limited to black– white relations, or to the United States. Around the same time period, violence and hatred directed toward Jews throughout Europe and Australia were on the rise (see d Figure 5.1). Laws against pro-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) “propaganda” were passed in Russia. Anti-Muslim sentiment increased in many parts of the West, while anti-West sentiment con- tinued to flourish among large numbers of radical Mus- lims. The prime minister of India decried the continuing (though officially banned) practice of parents selectively aborting girls. As billionaire Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States, he denounced Mexican immigrants as criminals and rap- ists and leaped to the top of the polls (Ahmed, 2015; Fletcher, 2014; Gjelten, 2015; Luke, 2015; Mahr, 2015).
Faced with these headlines, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that progress, in some cases tremendous prog- ress, has been made. The United States had elected, and then re-elected, its first African American president. The Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was now legal throughout the United States. Today more people than ever rush to defend the targets and denounce the perpetrators of prejudice and discrimination. The march toward progress is real, but its rhythm is frustratingly unsteady, at its best a “two-steps forward and one-step back” motion.
To better understand and improve our diverse world, to help the march toward progress acceler- ate in the right direction, it is critically important to understand the complexity and causes of stereo- types, prejudice, and discrimination. That is the pri- mary goal of this chapter. We begin by taking a close look at the nature of the problem of intergroup bias in contemporary life. Later in the chapter we address some of the key causes and important consequences of intergroup biases, and we close by discussing some of the most promising directions in effort ...
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Your friend remarked, “A company will never drop a product from its product line that has a positive contribution margin. It will want to garner every bit of profit that it can.” Is this true in all cases? What are the risks and benefits of evaluating product continuation or implementation using the contribution margin?
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Regarding the solution below. The contribution margin mainly looks at the variable costs. What potential problems could result from the product's associated fixed costs?
In this case it is important to evaluate what the friend means by positive contribution as it can be lower and higher. It is important for the firm to have an overall high product contribution in order to maintain a high profit level. The contribution levels for all products must be analysed in order to calculate the contribution of each of the products to the overall profit level (Contribution Margin, (n.d)). Hence in these examples given above we see that if any product has a positive but low contribution, then that specific product must be dropped from production the respective year due to the lack of resources so that it does not dilute the high contribution level of other products and ultimately the overall contribution level. Hence the resources for each product is very important when it comes to the decision of dropping a product based on its contribution level as a product will have low contribution if the resources for the same are low. The risk of using such an analysis is that we lose out on unanticipated increase in demand of the product that is dropped. The benefit of this analysis is that we know which products to drop in order to maintain a high profit level for all the products that are produced by the company.
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Research Topic
Mixed racial and cultural groups are growing in the United States. Should each group expect to be treated as a separate entity, or should residents of the United States be considered Americans without the hyphen?
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America is knows and the land of opportunities and this has prompted very many people to join the American society, there is a common saying that America is a nation of immigrants and perhaps this can not be very far from the truth. Form research, you realize that it is difficult to say who a Native American is because most of the Americans have their ancestral roots somewhere else. The fact that the Americans society is made up of diverse people means that there has to be a way of differentiating the various groups and that is why we have terms like African- American , which leads to the question, would there be just American or we should have American-something else?
Very year many people come to America as students or through the green card while others come as expatriates and w.
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Herbert Hoover once stated, the business of America is business, and the best business practice would be to ensure that all its people have a chance to participate in the American Dream. America’s business is the people’s business; full participation in the nation’s economic life, business, or government. The American Dream consists of tenets about achieving success, about material well-being, religious freedoms, membership in elective office, and a successful family. The American dream is being inclusiveness in the melting pot. I remember “at least for me,” growing up in the deep south during the 60s and 70s. As a young child our community was black, we shopped at black owned businesses, we ate dinner at black owned restaurants, we even went to drive-theaters in the mid-60s as a form of social entertainment. I was old enough to remember when schools were first integrated due to the 1954 Supreme Court decision “separate but equal” being ruled unconstitutional. If I can remember, so can a lot of others, and not just domestically.
The United States Constitution was written with a focus on race and gender. The men who wrote the constitution were escaping persecution as well. America was founded on race and gender issues, wars, aristocratic oppression, and religious persecutions. They developed a government system for the people, and by the people. Individuals we elect bring regional biases to the federal government. They been adjudicating or legislating racism since the first congress convened. Take the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime, or the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which guaranteed citizens’ rights (only selected few) to make and enforce economic contracts, and to purchase, sell, or lease property. Women were not even given a public voice either. The 14th Amendment declared all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. to be citizens. The 15th Amendment forbade State’s to deprive their citizens of their right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and one last example, the “First Ku Klux Klan Act (Civil Rights Act of 1870), prohibited discrimination in voter registration based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude, etc. Several States adopted Black Codes, and Jim Crow laws to suppress their minority populations. Frozen in time, once proclaiming “I have a Dream” during his historic march on the nations capitol, Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech has been endlessly reproduced and selectively quoted over the years and, yet, his speeches retain their majesty of justice, but seem to have lost their political effectiveness over time.
Today, we hear very little of the King who believed that “the real racial issues in America were not regional ones like in the south, but a national one.” But America’s history teaches, that it was the Sta ...
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1. Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Society Selected sources of information: Dąbrowska,Joanna. 2009. Black Leaders’ Solutions to Racial Tension in America: A Comparison of Public Speeches by Malcolm X and Barack Hussein Obama . Masters Thesis, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Feagin, Joe. 1991. "The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places." American Sociological Review 56: 101-116. Hochschild, Jennifer and Vesla Mae Weaver. 2010. “’There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama’: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism.” Perspectives on Politics 8(3): 737 – 759. (hereafter H&W) Obama, Barack. 1995. Dreams from My Father . Chapter 4. Wright, Lawrence. 1994. "One Drop of Blood." The New Yorker , July 24. Zinn, Howard. 2003. “Chapter 7: As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs,” pp. 125 - 148 in A People’s History of the United States . New York: Harper Perennial.
2. Sociology : the scientific study of human social life in all its aspects. Social Structure = A general term for any collective social circumstance that is unalterable and given for the individual. They are enduring patterns of behavior that set limits on thought and action and cannot be changed by any individual will (Abercrombie et al 1994: 391; Rytina 1997).
3. R a c e Race = A category of persons who are identified by themselves and by others as having a socially meaningful distinctiveness that rests on biological criteria.
4. Sociologically, race is considered to be socially constructed, though it is clear people differ in terms of their physiognomic traits. Racial groups are viewed as biological groups because of how they look, and are aggregated into racial groups by social and political processes. H&W examine how political institutions and organizations combine with social phenomena (including demographic shifts) to create three types of official racial classification systems: those that are created, those that stay the same, and those that end. H&W examine the reasons for how each type emerges, including (a) a constituency inside the government that has enough political influence to call for change, or stop a classification from emerging, (b) a constituency outside of the government that can pressure the political system.
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6. September 11, 2001 changed how Americans view Muslims and Arabs and radically changed U.S. political discourse
7. How Some of Obama’s Detractors Attempted to Portray Obama: Barack Hussein Obama The Truth about Barack Hussein Obama is:
8. H&W find that “multiracialism,” having one or more racial markers, has been politically institutionalized. Multiracialism became institutionalized because of “facts on the ground,” i.e. a demographic shift and from the intellectual movement of multiculturalism. Yet, the overall incidence of reported multiracialism among individuals is very small; it is smallest among whites, and greatest among Native Americans. It also does not have many or strong advocacy organizations that act on their behalf. H&W argue that although multiracialism has been politically institutionalized, it has not become an “identity.” People do not feel strong ties to their “multiracial” identity. They are more likely than others to view race as socially constructed and context dependent.
9. Racism = An elaborate ideology holding that one race is biologically superior and that all others are biologically inferior to it. This doctrine regards the unequal economic and social positions of different races as the outcome of their genetic differences. “ New Racism ” supplants “cultural” for “biological” in the above definition. See also Ethnic Hatred, Xenophobia
10. From U.S. Census Data http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/income_expenditures_poverty_wealth/household_income.html and http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/income_expenditures_poverty_wealth.html Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the U.S. (200 8 ) Median Income and Mean Income ( in 2008 dollars) Below Poverty Level (%) White non-Hispanic Median: 55,530 Mean: 74,102 8.6 Black (alone or in combination) Median: 34,345 Mean: 46,679 24.6 Hispanic (any race) Median: 37,913 Mean: 51,572 23.2
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12. Percent Completed High School 1993 – 2007 by Race From Table A.2 http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education/cps2007.html
13. Unemployment Rate by Level of Education by Race in 2009 Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsrace2009.pdf Less than High School High School Degree BA Degree and Up All Races 14.6 9.7 4.6 White 13.9 9 4.2 Men 14 10.2 4.4 Women 13.7 7.4 4 Black 21.3 14 7.3 Men 23.9 16.2 8.2 Women 18.6 11.5 6.7
14. Percent in Selected Occupations by Race in 2009 Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsrace2009.pdf Management, professional and related Production, transportation, and material moving All 37.3 11.4 White 38 11.1 Men 35 16.5 Women 41.4 4.9 Black 29.2 14.3 Men 23.8 24 Women 33.7 6.2 Hispanic 19.4 17.1 Men 15.9 22.2 Women 24.6 9.8
15. Median usual weekly earnings ($) of full-time wage and salary workers by selected occupation and race in 2009 Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsrace2009.pdf Management, professional and related Production, transportation, and material moving All 1044 605 White 1061 618 Men 1266 666 Women 913 477 Black 905 540 Men 922 582 Women 800 453 Hispanic 926 485 Men 1017 516 Women 774 374
16. U.S. Census: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance 2009 Report http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf Who Does Not Have Health Insurance in the United States? 2009 No Health Insurance % All races 16.7 White non-Hispanic 12 Black 21 Hispanic (any race) 32.4
17. From the Civil Rights era to the 21 st Century: The Question of Progress 1960 2000 Blacks Whites Blacks Whites Population (%) 10.9 87.6 12.3 75.1 College Education % of population (25-34) who completed 4 years of college or more / obtained bachelor’s degree or more 5.7 14.6 14.3 26.1 Median income (dollars) 3,886 7,251 33,916 54,920 Below Poverty Level (%) 41.8 11.3 24.5 8.2