AfricanAmerican Ethnic Group Simulation Presentation

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African-American Ethnic Group Simulation
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I. Narrative

• The Terrible Transformation
• New World Exploration and English Ambition
• Freedom and Bondage in the Colonial Era
• Declaration of Independence 1770-1783
• Revolution
• Brotherly Love
• Judgment Day

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II. Contexts

• Economic
• Slavery endured great hardship while being
  instrumental in building of North South
  economies.
• Freed Black Americans had to compete with White
  Immigrants for jobs, often displaced.
• Large number of African-American workers forced
  into unskilled jobs with low wages and little
  upward mobility.
• Discrimination in workforce continues today.

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II. Contexts

• Social
• Due to the effects of slavery, legal segregation,
  and continuing informal discrimination there is
  little opportunity to build up multi-generational
  wealth.
• Encompasses the majority of social interactions.
• In every facet of this society, examples can be
  found of white privilege and black harm that have
  been passed along from one generation to the
  next.

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II. Contexts

• Governmental/Political
• 1933-1940 President Franklin Roosevelt created
  the New Deal. It produced several new federal
  agencies to help create new jobs, helped Black
  Americans survive the Depression, but still
  favored White Americans.
• 1909 Creation of the NAACP (the National
  Association for the Advancement of Colored
  People.
• 1930 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka -set
  in motion government action to desegregate all
  school systems.

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III. Major Conflicts/ Barriers/Challenges/Hurdles

• 1600s/ Slavery
• Recognition of Slavery in the U.S. Constitution
• Groups that were forced from Africa to America
  Yorubas, Akans, Ibos, Angolans and others became
  a single African-American culture.
• January 1, 1863. Emancipation Proclamation

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• Segregation
• Jim Crow Laws enforced segregation of whites and
  blacks in public transportation, hospitals,
  jails, schools, churches and cemeteries.
• 1950-1960s wave of protests against segregation
  and discrimination begin.
• Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of
  1965, and the Open Housing Act of 1968 legally
  ended discrimination against minorities.
• Other sources of discrimination
• Employment
• Educational opportunities

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IV. Historical Trend/ Timeline

• Pre World War II
• 1600s Slavery begins
• January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation
• 1861-1865 Civil War
• 1865 Congress approves the 13th Amendment which
  outlaws slavery
• 1866 Civil Rights Act passed
• 1898 Spanish-American War begins

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• 1909 NAACP is formed
• 1917 United States enters World War I
• 1929 Stock Market crashes, the Great Depression
  begins
• 1933-1940 New Deal Era
• 1939-1945 World War II
• Post World War II
• 1950-1960s Black Civil Rights movement
• 1950s Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on
  the bus leads to boycott of the bus system by the
  black community

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• 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads
  demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.
• 1963 March on Washington, Kings famous I have
  a dream speech.
• 1964 Protestors in NY threatened a stall-in to
  prevent the opening of the Worlds fair.
• 1965 Voting Rights Act
• 1964 1968 Civil Rights Act

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V. Major Issues Today

• Blacks get inferior health care compared to
  whites when it comes to mental illness and
  certain other ailments.
• Possible explanations include racial bias among
  doctors and cultural differences.
• Conducted study of 305,574 patients enrolled in
  Medicare shows blacks received poorer quality
  care than whites
• Eye exams for diabetics Black 43.6, White 50.4

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• Beta Blockers after Heart Attack Black 64.1,
  White 73.8
• Follow up care after hospitalization for mental
  illness Black 33.2, White 54.
• Breast Cancer Screening Black 62.9, White 70.9

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VI. Policy/Program Proposal

• Policy African-American Medicaid Reform Act
• Benefiting Native Americans
• Not-benefiting European Catholics
• Theories and Concepts that guided policy
  response
• Split Labor Market View
• Theory of Racial Oppression
• Gunnar Myrdals Vicious Cycle Concept

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African-American Ethnic Group Simulation
Presentation
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