Black Immigrant Labor

1 Pages 328 Words

Black and Immigrant Labor Force Participation in America,” by F. Nii-Amoo Doodoo is about the model minority theory and how America is led to believe that African American’s bring their poverty upon themselves because they are lazy, uncooperative, and not motivated enough to work. The truth of it is that Blacks do work they just do not make as much because of the jobs available to them. When they are working, they do work just as hard as their ancestors did because they have to. This article is an informative article for people who may be studying racial discrimination or statistical errors.
This was an okay journal article but since the study was incomplete, it was somewhat hard to get a lot of factual information from it. A more complete and accurate study of labor would have been more sufficient and gave the “informed” reader a better understanding of the material. A professional journal article should not leave the reader guessing. Doodoo should have waited until the study was finished before publishing his article. The information given was understandable and logically sequenced I just feel that overall it could have been better.
The journal “Inequality and Delinquency: Sorting Out Some Class and Race Effects,” by Marino Bruce (University of Wisconsin) talks about how teenagers are often blamed for being deviant but what most people do not understand is, some of these so called “deviant” behaviors are just kids acting out their cultural differences. Most people tend to believe that crime and violence is most common in African American males. Research shows that the majority of crime and violence is caused by European American males. America is mislead in believing that immigrant criminals over populate our country.
The article was scholarly written and very well organized. It had an understandable sequence and seemed to be very well thought out. The organization and sequence of information made otherwise “...