Race as a Factor to Be Hired for Certain Jobs

Overview and Heritage From the Purnell Model for cultural competence, I started my interview with overview and heritage. According to Purnell it is defined as " includes concepts related to the country of origin, current residence, the effects of the topography of the country of origin and current residence, economics, politics, reasons for emigration, educational status, and occupations" (Purnell, 2002). I began my interview with my Mexican friend, Diego Pina. In my interview I learned that Diego is was born in Mexico and immigrated into the United States. Diego identifies himself as a male and is Hispanic. He currently resides here in Edwardsville for school. He has only completed high school, but he is currently pursuing a career engineering here at SIUE. He has no economic factors or concerns and is a democrat.

Generally we want to approach decisions with placing ourselves in another’s shoes, however, seeing past how we view ourselves within our own racial group can again lead to stereotyping behavior.

For this assignment, I interviewed Alejandro Perez who my current significant other. He currently works as a subcontractor for construction. He is twenty-six years old. He is the oldest child in his family. He has four other brother and one sister. He identifies as Mexican because he was born and raised in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of sixteen, his father along with a guide immigrated to California. During the interview, I asked him what it meant to be a male in the Latino Culture. We talked about his primary cultural values, his bicultural experience, and consequences of oppression, counseling issues, and his perception to an effective learning environment.

During the time I was born, in the 90’s, stereotypes were taught to children through school, family members, and media. “A stereotype is a mental category based on exaggerated and inaccurate generalizations used to describe all members of a group” (Bennett 91). As a child, I obviously did not realize I was being taught these cruel definitions based to categorize people into which racial group they should belong to. To put it another way, Bennett states, “As psychologists have pointed out, stereotyping is a natural phenomenon in that all humans develop mental categories to help make sense of their environments” (91). Provided that, I stereotyped my interviewee the same exact way numerous people stereotype me. For this reason, to better understand both the interviewee and myself racial identity, I consequently analyzed how we each portrait the world we live in.

When speaking about race a lot of people like to claim that we do not need to talk about it and racism is over. That we all “understand” what race is, yet as stated in “What is Race and Why Does It Matter So Much?” scholars can’t seem to agree

A person has just obtained their dream ACT score, 34, while maintaining outstanding extracurricular activities throughout high school. After applying to the university of their choice, they are informed that they have not been admitted. Crushed and confused, they go on the university’s website only to discover that the university is looking for people with a more diverse racial background. Standing in the way of their acceptance is a defective policy formally known as race-based affirmative action. Informally called affirmative action, it is a combination of adopted policies that construct an advantage to minority groups, giving them more possibilities to succeed in jobs, education, and other aspects of daily life. The whole concept came

Today we live in a world that is a multicultural society. More commonly America is said to be a “melting pot”, meaning that our countries populations are made up of many different cultures and ethnic groups. As people with different cultures come in contact with each other there are external aspects such as food, dress, and language that becomes very evident. Using our own cultures lens we view everything from our cultures perspective thus narrowing our views of others and aiding in the difficulty of communicating with individuals of other cultures and backgrounds. Stereotypes exist within every culture all around the world, this includes, African Americans and White Americans within the United States. When thinking of stereotypes the first

TO: Wanzek Construction Inc. a Mas Tec Company 3100 Broadway E Williston, North Dakota 58801 (701) 572-3200 FROM: Anthony Butler 1621 8th St N #310 Wahpeton, North Dakota 58075 (701) 658-0587 NOTICE OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION/ WAGE DISCRIMINATION/ RACE DISCRIMINATION & HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT The violations below are just some of the harassment incidents received by Anthony Butler. Trenton Job Site

Discussion Paper 2: Race at Work African Americans versus whites does it matter in the workplace? We must all agree that there is some form of racism that still exists in the workplace, as for me I strongly agree with Pager and Western that race still exists in the United States and exists at places other than work. According to Society the basics, racism is the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another.

With an enormous shift into the labor force, there has been a distinct difference into how each race and industry has been affected. In Figure 1, “Income by Race”, we took into the account one’s race and the amount income they received. We notice that the Asian workforce has seen

Stereotypes put individuals into categories. These individuals are placed into these categories based on their looks, gender, ethnicity, social class etc. Should these individuals be placed into such categories? Individuals may be negatively affected by the Stereotypical group they’re placed in. In a study conducted by Steele and Aronson (1995) they researched the effect of stereotypical threats on the test performance of African Americans. They believed that when African Americans perform intellectual tasks that they face the threat of being placed in a negative stereotypical group such as their intellectual abilities and competence. They found that when African Americans were told of the difficulty of the tasks that they would perform lower

White privilege exists across a number of different dimensions, all of which are significant and intersecting. One such dimension is labor, which has played an important role in both the construction and maintenance of whiteness. Although labor movements have traditionally been associated with workers’ liberation, this has not always been the case with regard to racial and ethnic minorities. Indeed, the American workforce in the 20th Century was extremely stratified by race. Racially disparate opportunities and outcomes in employment were and continue to be the norm thanks to institutions embracing the possessive investment in whiteness. This has contributed significantly to the structural racial inequality we see today, especially as experienced by African Americans. White privilege and the possessive investment in whiteness have been perpetuated throughout American labor history due to public policy and labor practices, both explicitly racial and nonracial, which have codified and protected whiteness as property.

Stereotypes and discrimination have been in our society since this country’s founding. In our current society, many of these stereotypes are projected through movies. In the article “Whistling Vivaldi” Steele makes frequent comments about the differences between black and whites stating if you are any color other than white you

With all of the advances in modern society and human behavior, racism is still a crisis that many people have to cope with. It can occur at any place or at any time, including in the workplace. Racial discrimination arises when someone is treated differently based on their actual or perceived race. Many people believe that if one were to be in the vicinity of a respected workplace that they would be respected by all co-workers and employers; this is in no way true. A big amount of minority employees, mainly African-Americans, are affected by racial discrimination in the workplace whether it’s from their employers or their fellow co-workers, and it is not at all acceptable. Racial discrimination is a situation that has always been a problem, so we must show an effort to try to eliminate it from our society.

Introduction Racial bias is still a very active issue in society today. This paper explores the understanding of racial bias in business hiring. This is critical because racial bias continually uniforms businesses in hiring decisions. The prevalence of racial bias in business hiring, potential interventions, and explanations of why this