Race & Racism:1970 and Beyond
Text Sources
"Rodney King." American History. 2009. ABC-CLIO. 4 May 2009 <http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com>.
This source provides a great amount of detail surrounding the Rodney King Case which lead to the LA riots in 1992. Before getting into great detail about the King case, the article provides a good deal of background about King an where he came from and his upbringing. The article then goes into detail about what lead up to the King case, his run-ins with the law and the night he got his ticket. There is no bias in this article when it explains what happened before King was brutally beaten, providing both sides given in the case, “Then, King ran at the officers; he claims he was running away.” This article continues to go into greater detail giving exact information and numbers regarding the outcome of the trial.
"Simpson trials." American History. 2009. ABC-CLIO. 4 May 2009 <http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com>.
This source provides a lot of information as to why the OJ Simpson trial can be seen as a racial issue. The article states that the media spun the case to say that the police “tampered” with evidence to make it seem like Simpson was the obvious murderer of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and friend, Ronald Goldman. Told in the third person. The material and information given is not biased in stating that the Simpson trial was spun by the media and turned into more of a race issue and public scandal than a serious murder trial.
Wood, Daniel B.. "L.A.'s Darkest Days." The Christian Science Monitor (2002): Print.
This article written for The Christian Science Monitor provides another side and motive for the LA race riots. Not only were the riots done in spite of the results of the King trial, blacks also sought this opportunity to avenge the Korean shop owners in the LA area who ever expressed racism toward blacks. “The No. 1 enemy for us was Koreans, who we felt were oppressing us." Author, Wood, is the staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor. Although it was written 7 years ago, it was marking the 10 year anniversary to the date of the start of the LA race riots of 1992. Although written for a religiously affiliated journal, the article does not appear to have any religious bias with the information given. The information definitely provides a different perspective and motive for the race riots which almost tore a city apart in the early 90s.
Ghazali, Abdus Sattar. "American Muslims Seven Years After 9/11." OpEdNews (2008): Print.
Ghazali makes the point that to this day Muslim Americans are still under the watchful eye of the American government and they are still in the line of fire when it comes to terrorist and “the war on terror.” Ghazali touches on the idea that there were plans for mapping out highly concentrated areas of Muslims in certain areas and profile them based on whether their jobs or activities were “suspect.” Although a bit liberally spun, Ghazali is an American Muslim himself. Ghazali is an author of three books concerning Muslim Americans and Islam, and he is currently working as a free-lance journalist and is the executive editor of American Muslim Perspective.
Shipler, David K. A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc.,, 1997.
Shipler provides different sides of race and racism in the United States. He provides information about interracial racism. For instance he discusses how black people distinguish themselves as "Light and dark skinned" and it creates a little bit of animosity towards one another. Shipler gives all different types os race relations and most importantly provides the reader with non-biased information about the two races with a great deal of conflict.
Spickard, Paul. Almost all Aliens :Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2007.
Paul Spickard does a wonderful job explaining all of his information and takes the time and effort to fully analyze events, quotes, and beliefs that have shaped this country in terms of race, immigration and the american identity. Spickard breaks down his book into major sections with the first portions of his book being about Colonial America, then he goes into the first immigrants and how they shaped America and really elicited racism. Finally, up to the present is the most interesting. Spickard gives great detail about racism and discrimination against all different types of races and he even provides detail about White Supremacy and the other side of racism. Spickard never spoke in any sort of bias towards the information provided;the fact that the book was written merely two years ago adds to the accuracy of the book.
Kovach, Gretel C., and Arian Campo-Flores. "A Town in Turmoil." Newsweek 20 Aug. 2007: 36-38.
The Newsweek article about the Jena Six was very well-written. It provided great detail about the case giving both sides. instead of say "he did" or actually accusing one of the Jena 6, authors says when members or other people denied actions that might be skeptical. Therefore, this article is in no way biased. Both viewpoints of Jena are shown when it says that the blacks in Jena wanted to exploit Jena and how racist it is. Whereas the whites in Jena did not see any racism in Jena. Authors of the Newsweek article performed and analyzed their research very well in an organized informative article.
"September 11, 2001, September 11, 2001." Historic World Events. Gale, 2004. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/
This source provided me with minute by minute, step-by-step what happened on the morning of September 11, 2001. It described how many people were on what plane, how and what time they seized it and what times the planes crashed and collapsed. This article was in no way biased only giving me factual information.
"Trail of Broken Treaties." Civil Rights in the United States. 2 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2000. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/
This source provided me with much greater details and insights into the Trail of Broken Treaties. It provided me with information as to what the Native Americans did when they did not have a place to stay or sleep after arriving from San Francisco. This article was up to date seeing as the trail of broken treaites took place in the 1970s. Told in third person.
Multimedia Citation
Aftermath. 19 Apr. 1995. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, OK. By Leon Secatero.
Unknown. Inhaling 9/11. 11 Sept. 2001. World Trade Center, New York City, NY.
Dellsam34. "Abc Primetime- How Muslims Are Treated In USA."
Weblog post. "Arab=Muslim= Terror=War. 18 May 2008. 10 May 2009 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nb9275XZNE>.
19 Sept. 2007. Blogger News Network. 13 May 2009 <http://www.bloggernews.net/110305>.
Weblog post. IsabelleCarbonell. 23 Jan. 2008. 12 May 2009 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHGSyZbjYhc>.
"Enforcing the Law." Cartoon. The Humble Voter. 25 May 2007. 13 May 2009 <http://ahedlund.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html>.
Toyshima, Tak. "Secret Asian Man." Cartoon. ImDiversity. 13 May 2009 <http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/Asian/Secret_Asian_Man/strips/sam_vincent_chin_0607.asp>.
American Indian Movement. Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA. 13 May 2009 <http://www.banderasnews.com/0610/ent-cclegacy.htm>.
Los Angeles, CA. 13 May 2009 <http://blog.lib.umn.edu/isler010/asianamericanstudies/campus_events/>.
Murphy, Michael D. "Free the Jena 6." Cartoon. Friends of Justice. 24 July 2007. 13 May 2009 <http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/jena-6-get-involved-page/>.
Racism. 13 May 2009 <http://www.lemel.co.il/menu/glo_html/raci.html>.
"Rodney King." Video blog post. Youtube. 2 May 2007. 13 May 2009 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROn_9302UHg>.
CNN: Jena six Story. Youtube. 5 Sept. 2007. 13 May 2009 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIHfTfMXFtQ>.
