Post War Economic Boom and Racial Discrimination - Article Review

The article that I picked “Post War Economic Boom and Racial Discrimination” did an excellent job exemplifying how ones race affected their lifestyle in America post World-War II. It is important for us to look at this from a historical standpoint because we can see how we evolved, and always leaves us for room to learn from our mistakes. This article described the housing boom after the war. New towns were starting to appear, as the demand for housing had increased. In America, there were no written rules stopping African-Americans from purchasing homes, but other round-about ways were often found. Their loan applications would be denied or they would be victims of foreclosures. Asians in America were discriminated because they were denied citizenship up until the 1950. We were in a predominantly white only society, and any other race was looked at as inferior. This was a rough time, with a lot of examples of racism, but the civil-rights movement followed, allowing for the freedom of different races in America. Taking a look at this issue from a historical standpoint shows us that we utilized racism because non-whites were the minority in America.

Human Variation

The next article I read talked about Race and Human variation. It is interesting to see how they defined race through different concepts. The population concept defines it as a cluster of local populations that differ genetically from other clusters of local populations. This article goes to talk about how Africans have the greatest variance and mutations in their race because people have lived in Africa longer than anyplace else, and as a result, most genetic variations is found in people living outside Africa. There are three breakdowns of race. African, European, and Asian. There may be variations according to the population concept, but this concept proves to be wrong because human DNA sequences show little variation. The