A Brief Note On Racial And Ethnic Inequality

Movies and entertainment outlets speak volumes about the current state of a nation’s culture. Cinematic creations in the United States allow small voices to be heard and controversial issues to be addressed. However, a repetitive and monumental issue continues to be addressed, yet continues to persist in our 21st century culture, racial inequalities. Since the inception of the United States, black men and women alike have been disenfranchised at the hands of the “white man” in America. Instead of continuing the conversation today, the issue is continually silenced referencing the successes and achievements of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century. Nonetheless, an unfortunate reality looms upon this great land; racially based systems and structures continue to exist in 2015 the in United States. This paper synthesizes three films focused on racial inequalities in different time periods. Separate but Equal (1991), Selma (2015), and Crash (2005) illustrate how influential the Civil War amendments are, while serving as an uncanny reminder of how the racial prejudices during the 20th century continue to exist in our great nation today. Needless to say our nation has made great strides, but still has a long way to go.

Since America’s beginning, race based barriers have mired the fulfillment of our shared principles and many of these barriers still persist today. The institutionalized inequalities are detrimental on an individual basis as well a societal basis. Racism does not only affect the individuals that are being oppressed but also how society functions as a whole. Racial inequalities have manifested in American society in ways that underlies a wide range of societal domains such as housing patterns, educational opportunities, healthcare inequality, and incarceration rates. Current events and experiences demonstrate moreover that racial inequality is still adamant in the American culture. Long after slavery, the Jim Crow Era, and the civil rights movement, racial inequality has taken distinctive forms which affect many people within a racially oppressed group. Racial segregation at large is embedded within a structural matrix that not only permeates in the American culture but in our private and public institutions. Disparities in the criminal justice system and housing patterns remain a key barrier to racial equality in America. In order to eradicate racial inequality, there needs to be policy solutions that place fundamental changes to a system with profound historical origins, one that structurally disadvantages minority groups.

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The barriers that separate men have existed for centuries. Race, class, status, these are all ideas that have created a divide among humans. This divide creates competition and tension. Throughout the history of the legal system, justice has been used to validate slavery and other forms of racial inequality. Our system now has changed, but the basic concept has remained the same. According to one study, the judicial system was invented by whites to protect whites and keep people of color at bay (Constitutional Rights Foundation, 2017, p1). This idea of preserving a one superior racial system resulted in a bias still existent today.

What is racial inequality? Racial inequality is discrepancies in the opportunities and treatment of people based solely on their race. Racial inequality is a serious issue that is often discussed in the American criminal justice system. Although racial discrimination is present in the criminal justice system, some people use the words inequality, discrimination, racism, and profiling loosely and do not understand how truly complex it is to prove that there actually is racial inequality present in the criminal justice system. Daniel P Mears, Joshua C. Cochran, and Andrea M. Lindsey article Offending and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Criminal Justice: A Conceptual Framework for Guiding Theory and Research and Informing Policy illustrates

As the only sociologist that has been chosen on the North American council I would like to address my main concern, which is that having one person voice the social inequalities for approximately 580 million people is not just. In my best attempt to be as fair and voice the major concerns that I feel are prevalent throughout North America, I chose racial inequality, educational inequality, and gender inequality. Before I further discuss these inequalities I would like to define social inequality to give the reader a clearer understanding, “Social inequality is the long term existence of significant differences in access to goods and services among social groups”, as quoted from our textbook.

America is known as “the land of the free”, but my question to you is, who is worthy of this privilege? For as long as I can remember, minorities in America as never received the same privilege as the so call founders of this great nation. Now America’s middle class, which consist of mainly Blacks and Hispanics are under invasion. This is what I call Racial and Ethnic Inequality. A race is defined as a person’s physical features, such as their hair, eye color, bone structure, and the icing on top of the cake a person’s skin color. Ethnic inequality is being bias, one-sided, or discriminating towards an ethnic group. For over 30 years, the fortune of the middle class black and Latinos households declined by 75 percent and 50 percent, in that exact order it was given. At the same time, white middle-class households fortune increased a bit. The middle white class had $116,800 in funds as to a disappointing $2,000 for Latinos and a stunted $1,700 for blacks. This wealth decline is unjust, not only that it is a threat to the middle-class American’s growth. I honestly must say I feel so sorry for the overall economic health. I recently came across a new report of the Institute for Policy Studies and Prosperity. The wealth gap between whites and other Ethnic groups are a big difference. In the new report of the Institute for Policy Studies and Prosperity, it shows that the white families with more wealth can buying a new home, starting their own businesses, and covering

Racial Inequality is a subject that can be exposed easily yet the following journalists exposed the truth behind this reality such as racism/segregation, poverty and racial injustice. The following journalists attempted to bring about change in legislation so that something could be done about racial inequality.

As our nation accepts a new president and the realities of politics in a post-Obama world, it is a perfect time to focus the conversation on economic progress and racism. In the past ten years, issues surrounding race and economics have contributed to America’s social classes being in direct competition with each other, while simultaneously causing America to address historical and contemporary racial inequalities that have been hidden in the past. (citation). The current political platform provides us with an opportunity to highlight racism and the economic injustices that have been place on African Americans and many other minorities. Racism is an ideology that is based on the principle that human beings can be subdivided and ranked into

This article speaks on several different aspects of race and ethnicity. It touches on the subject of

The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal, but many Americans say otherwise. Racial inequality is the discrimination against a certain group of people. The reasons can range from the color of a person to the religion they believe in. For the past years, racial inequality has been built into the lives of people. In the United States, the “American Dream” of freedom has been shattered by racial equality because of police brutality against Americans and the targeting of the Islamic faith.

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. Within a week of the civil rights leader’s death, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the second Civil Rights Act, ensuring fair housing for any ethnicity. The decade of the 1960s sought to curb racial prejudice, including both de facto and de jure segregation. However, despite much progress in this area, the ghosts of 1960’s inequality still linger throughout our nation. In the past 50 years, economic, educational, and law enforcement barriers have only worsened racial inequality.

To make racial inequalities a public issue I will write a blog that explains the effect on people's lives that it can cause and who it mainly affects..In my blog it will also tell the history and where racial inequalities came from and why it affects minorities.I will also interview people that know a lot about racial inequalities and people that lives have been ruin by it

My proposed area of concentration for my Peace and Justice Studies major is Racial Empowerment and Community Development through Education and Policy. This concentration will focus on ways in which to provide support to minority communities through educational resources and policies. The foundation of my major will be AFR 213 - 01 Race Relations and Racial Inequality. In order to effectively work with disenfranchised and marginalized communities, I must have an adequate understanding of the systems and institutions that perpetuate the underdevelopment of minority communities in America. Thus, Race Relations and Racial Inequality will give me the historical context for why different racial groups live in under-resourced and underdeveloped communities, and how chronic poverty and institutionalized racism perpetuate such conditions.

The United States is a country of freedom, of liberty; it attracts many immigrants to crossed seas and rivers and set their feet on this land. People came for the diversities of job opportunities and a fresh life. For example, there was a worker agreement called Bracero Program that offered legal immigration status to Mexicans workers in America. However, after the termination of this program, immigrants still find ways to come and stay illegally because the need is still there. Surprisingly, the continuing migration created another minority group in the U.S. Most Americans do not care about how segregated these people are, but we have to understand that these people do affect our country. We all live in the same nation; our lives interconnect with each other. Regarding the minority groups, many think of blacks as they received the most racial segregation; yet the poverty between Latinos and blacks are different. Although both groups experienced similar social stigmatization, social isolation, and social immobility, black poverty is caused by historical discrimination and the economic shift; yet for Latinos, the leading cause is the anti-immigrant laws.