Minority Group Community Analysis

Acknowledging that minorities and mentioning that minorities are in poverty is the first step to solving a problem. If there is no voice or acknowledgement that these minorities are in poverty, then the problem will never be solved

In the United States minorities are denied equal opportunities based on race and ethnicity in work, housing, and education this should change. They 're labeled and stereotyped based on preconceived notions hurting their image in society we need to start educating the public on how these assumptions are untrue. This treatment violates their constitutional rights by denying their equality highlighting this country 's failure to uphold its promise for a better life. Their race, sex, and ethnicity are still obstacles despite claims, but nothing has been done to improve the lives and treatment of minorities. The term "Race" is a social construct used to categorize groups of people in countries it’s what you claim in important documents like Black, White, or Hispanic. However, this system is the cause of many social issues segregation, injustice, and racism being the most common instances have caused division within the United States. A change needs to happen, but the populace affected by these issues need to take a stand and work to insight change in the country.

As a nation, we discuss the notion of equality of race, gender, wealth, and representation, but with identity politics, and politics in general, it easily allows people to separate in distinct groups. The classical liberal view of the equality of opportunity is the concept that all individuals are open to same set of circumstances to achieve the same goals. However, in the past the presence of discrimination has set restrictions against the minorities by always using legal recusants to block people out. As it was so for Sotomayor, people who are on the out had to find different ways to work around. “One thing that has not changed: to doubt the worth of minority students' achievement when they succeed is really only to present another face of the prejudice that would deny them a chance to even try. It is the same prejudice that insists all those destined for success must be cast from the same mold as those who have succeeded before them, a view that experience has already proven a fallacy ( p.245 ).” People, such as Sotomayor, from a disadvantaged background faced criticism and harsher circumstances, were not as easily open to all opportunities compared to others. The result of resentfulness towards the challenging and prohibitive conditions that previous generations encountered,

The United States has made great innovations in the past century to ensure that all people have the same chances to better themselves. While steps have been taken to bring about equality from Roe v. Wade to legalizing same sex-marriage in every state still more can be done—especially in the field of racial inequality.

This paradox is not just affecting low-income and minority students, but also students in non-minority groups as well. When there is no time for focus on skills that students need to participate in social change, these students will not learn to question practices within society or to work with other students from all different groups and backgrounds in order to effect change. Classes in schools which may contribute to multicultural education, such as social studies and foreign language, are being cut completely in order to spend more time on reading and math (Au, 2009). According to Au (2009), since multi-cultural anti-racist perspectives and content are not deemed legitimate by the high-stakes tests and classroom standards, the end result is that multicultural, anti-racist content and perspectives and not being included in the instruction time or curriculum. This reinforces the notion for white students that they are the dominant group in society, and works against the goals of multicultural education.

The United States of America is suppose to be the place to pursue the “American Dream”, yet no one never said the path to that dream was going to be easy, especially if you are not white. Minorities in this country are riddled with struggle and barriers that hinder the growth of the people starting from below the bottom. As Berkman and Blunk said in their Thoughts on Class, Race and Prison, “we live in a country where large numbers of people, particularly young Afro-American, Latino and Native American women and men, have been written off by society.” The minority of the United States experience bare minimal surrounded “in a consumer society, [that] if you’ve got nothing, you’re considered to be nothing, and the frustration of this reality leads [minority] people into crimes and drugs” (Berkman & Blunk). Minorities throughout times have faced challenges and persevered for rights in this country, though their rights have been achieved “racial inequality...may linger on for indefinite periods of time after the racial barriers are eliminated” (Wilson).

Racism has always played a significant role in people’s life throughout the history of America. The effects of this have always been negative on the minority people. They are facing problems that they should not be facing like other Americans. Poverty When it comes to the topic of poverty, most of us will readily agree that race plays a role in poverty. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of who will step forward to end racism in America. Whereas some are convinced that it will never come to an end, others maintain that poverty can be diminished with the help of government and Americans. Minorities have to deal with the disadvantages that they have because of poverty. It is not their fault that they are in this unfortunate situation. The government is not doing their part in helping them get out of poverty. Moreover, Minority children are getting affected by this negatively. In a country like America, inequality should be nonexistent. It is shameful to see that Americans and the government are not taking any steps to stop this injustice with the minorities. Even though people think that inequality does not exist “[i]n 2000, after a decade of remarkable economic prosperity, the poverty rate among African Americans and Latinos taken together was still 2.6 times greater than that for white Americans” (Jenkins). Even when the country is doing well economically, minorities are still more likely to be in poverty when compared to the whites. There is a

“No one is born hating another person because the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela. In today’s society, minorities deal with racial issues such as racial profiling, racial bullying in institutions, and because of these racial attitudes, groups and movements have formed due to these acts. To this day, society is still burdened with many people who do not fully grasp the concept of equality; because of this, outdated racial attitudes are still an ongoing issue in modern society.

When we think of racism, we think of the horrific past events in America. Most people consider racism to be a terminated concept, however it is far from the truth. With the resources provided to me in this class, I have learned that many veiled discriminatory practices are still embedded in our society today, causing minorities to be limited in opportunities that would have helped them live a successful life in America. I would like to shed some light on how minorities are currently being affected due to how our society is structured. First of all, the reading titled “Sociologists on the Colorblind Question” written by Elaine McArdle illuminates the idea of how our societies way of thinking that there is no prejudice towards people of color

Inequality towards minorities in the United States has been established to be forgotten but in this century we have noticed that it has never gone away but instead been covered with other structures that allow inequality to take place. Being a minority and watching this video reminded me of the inequalities that I will still have to face throughout my education and career path. For many of us we have been tracked since elementary and allowed structures figure out where we belong due to our race, economic status, immigration status. For some students, we realize the inequalities that we have been given and try to make a change that will affect us and future generations. Cases like Brown vs. Board of Education and Mendez vs. Wethcmister Shows

Dividing, categorizing, and grouping ourselves with what is familiar is perhaps human nature. We look to find what we have in common with others to help identify who we are. Of course there are different ways to do so, such as political beliefs and religion. Yet, what seems to be most prominent in our history is grouping people based on race. Just looking into recent years minority groups were not given the the same rights as whites, because of their skin color. Admittedly, “white” is a generalization and doesn’t demonstrate the struggles some, such as the Italians and Irish, faced. However, these are struggles/discriminations are completely different in experience.

Modern America is advertised worldwide as a bastion of freedom and opportunity. In many ways, this is true. People from all walks of life find their place in America. However, there are also many instances in which America casts out people for reasons that can best be described as incredible. The country is hailed as a ‘melting pot’, yet the actions of its people suggest a deep intolerance for anything different. This intolerance is not something that can be easily corrected. In fact, the intolerance of people, in many cases, cannot be corrected. The issue of intolerance lies with individuals that perpetuate discrimination, but the solution does not. The only way to prevent the cancer of hate from spreading throughout the American body is to prevent it from growing in the first place: erasing intolerance in the younger generations, in preschoolers and kindergarteners, in order to provide a

Throughout history, minority groups have faced many hardships as a result of the different pigmentation of their skin complexion, socioeconomic status, and language varieties. Each factor affecting the other in a cyclical pattern. Language varieties associated with these stigmatized minority groups are often devalued because they fall short of what is known as Standard English. Minority group speakers typically use non-standard English such as Spanglish and African American Vernacular English. These non-standard English practices are misconceived as “broken English”, “ungrammatical”, and “defective”, which are incorrect and demeaning. These language varieties negatively impact the images of these minority groups reflecting

Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 90 percent of the population growth in the United States from 2000 to 2010, and the United States is rapidly becoming even more diverse. The rapid increase in the minority population has led to some backlash and challenges for law

towards minorities in education, employment, housing, arrests, and many other issues of society. Social inequality and discrimination towards