Homework Clinic
Social Science Clinic => Sociology => Topic started by: lracut11 on Aug 9, 2018
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What types of jobs could African Americans obtain in the North in comparison with the jobs obtained by Irish immigrants?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2
Study the lithograph of the Five Points neighborhood of New York City. What message is the artist providing to the viewer of the image?
What will be an ideal response?
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Answer to Question 1
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the jobs held by free blacks in northern cities based on gender.
2. Define the jobs held by Irish immigrants in northern cities based on gender.
3. Explain the animosity between both groups over economic competition and housing.
4. Explain that Irish immigrants were favored by native born whites to the detriment of free black employment.
Answer to Question 2
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the most important parts of the street scenes to analyze.
2. Define the actions of the people in the image: victims and perpetrators of crime and violence
3. Connect the human behaviors to white assumptions of black people as inferior and the use of mob violence against them.
4. Explain the general message that blacks were victims of crime and discrimination but also perpetuated it.
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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again
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Great! Please up vote :D