Racial Discrimination

Almost every person of color has been racially discriminated against. Most of us have had it happened to us, some of us never really realized it was happening. Some of us don’t even know what it means to be racially discriminated is. So for my senior exit paper, I will be telling what racial discrimination is, how much it happens, why it happens, who it happens to and so much more. In this paper, you will be learning the basic background of racial discrimination and when and how it started.

The work force is also a part of life where race plays a big role in the favor of whites. Everything can determine the likeliness of getting a job, from the way your name sound down to your criminal record. A 2003 University of Chicago study done by Devah Pager showed that white people with a criminal record were 3% more likely to be call back than blacks without a criminal history (Pager, 2003, sec. 11).

Yes, this scenario is a reportable injury. It is a reportable injury because Karen Kite was outside of her jobsite when she slipped and fell.

The government's first action to battle racial discrimination was the enforcement act of 1870, this act banned racial discrimination in voter registration. It also established consequences for those who interfered with one's right to vote. The government's second attempt to end discrimination was the enforcement act of 1871 which allowed federal oversight at elections if any citizen felt it was necessary. This act came with harsher punishments. The third and final attempt to end discrimination was the Ku Klux Klan act. This made any state official accountable in federal courts for stripping anybody of their civil right or protection of the law.  The KKK act also made several of their ploys federal offenses. This resulted on several hundred

Minorities face twice as much racial profiling than white Americans. “The federal office of personnel management report that when education, performance rating and other factors are held the constant African americans are twice as likely as whites to be dismissed from government jobs” (Mullings 17). When it comes to companies dismissing

This finding might seem as common sense, but employers that draw from a more diverse labor pool may be making finer distinctions in screening applicants, in the interest of reduced liability and monitoring costs. Certainly, employers with a diverse workforce are the most likely to call back African American applicants with a misdemeanor arrest record, because they do not seem to be using the question to screen low-level records. Given racial disparities in criminal justice populations, employers hiring from a diverse applicant pool are especially likely to encounter such records. For similar reasons, we expected and found that employers in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods were very likely to ask a criminal record

I was watching the news, when the footage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster came on. The news reporters were showing a black man walking in flooded waters near a market with a bag full of food and labeled him a “thief”. Social media in the United States has portrayed people of different racial backgrounds differently and unequally in recent years. In the essays “Theories and Constructs of Race” and “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?” the authors discuss in both essays about issues with racial equality in our world today. Authors Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe discuss in the first essay racial schemes are created through prejudices and the telling and retelling of stories. While, authors Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado discuss in their essay about the issue of “colorblindness” in social media. Holtzman is a professor of communications and journalism at Webster University, while Sharpe is a professor at Webster as well. Similarly, Harris and Carbado are professors at UCLA’s School of Law and have addressed widely on race, gender, civil rights and constitutional issues. Both essays do a good job at explaining their ideas and supporting them with evidence of racial discrimination in our world today. The authors from both essays organize their ideas and summarize them, which helps understand the main idea of racism, discrimination and racial inequalities in today’s society.

This was an adequate and suitable approach because the interviewers did not know that an experiment was being done, which means they would not have acted in ways to make themselves seem less racist. Rather, how they truly felt about each applicant would have been made evident. This was also appropriate because it further researched previous data from surveys that had shown the correlation/association between incarceration, race, and job call-back. One problem that could be seen is that the researchers only had the “criminal” applicants say that they had been convicted for a crime of possession of drugs with intent to sell, as it is a highly prevalent crime in today’s world. However, call-back rates could change depending on the crime, so that is one short-coming of this research. Overall, the experimental audit method yielded useful data that corresponded to previous survey data, further enhancing the notion that employers do discriminate based on not only the color of the applicant’s skin, but also on the presence of a criminal record.

Conducting criminal background checks on potential job applicants is important for employers to keep their workplaces safe (Heneman, Judge, & Kammeyer-Mueller, 2012). However, employers must remain cognizant of possible discrimination lawsuits that could occur if they chose not to select job applicants based on past criminal histories (Adams, 2013). The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) provides employers the following guidelines regarding if past criminal background histories can be used to decide not to hire individuals: the nature of the crime, its relation to the potential job, and the time that has passed since the offense (Adams, 2013, para.6). Unfortunately, since black individuals are more likely to be incarnated

When one is asked to define the United States of America, many say it is the “melting pot” meaning different races, cultures and people come together as one. However, America being called the “melting pot” is a controversial issue because, even though there are many different races in America, racism still exists. Many years after the world war I and II, the country is still struggling with racial prejudice and discrimination. While there are laws that are put into place to protect employees or job applicant against racial biases, racial discrimination still plays a role in hiring decisions. In today’s world, racial stereotypes and discriminations are becoming less acceptable. Racial discrimination and harassment remain pervasive throughout the workplace, with 40% to 76% of ethnic minority employees experiencing at least one unwanted race-based behavior within a 12- to 24-month period (Harrell, 2000; Schneider et al., 2000). However, there are studies and experiences that show that racial stereotypes still exist and one area that is subjected but limited to racial stereotypes and discrimination is in the hiring process for jobs. For example, one study found that in the initial review of resumes, applicants were already at a disadvantage if their names suggested they were Black. The result showed that white sounding names were 50% more likely to receive a callback than applicants with black sounding names with resumes of similar quality. Moreover, resumes with higher quality

Racial bias is very prevalent in business hiring today. The idea of racial bias specifically against black people has been about equal to the discrimination that occurred in 1990 while the discrimination against Latino people has stayed steady over the last twenty-seven years (Sherman,2016). This shows that racial bias in business hiring is still very prevalent today, and action needs to be taken to prevent minorities with the same qualifications as whites from getting a job simply because of their race.

Do Americans feel like there is still racial discrimination in today's everyday life? Racial discrimination is treating someone differently because of the color of his or her skin. Racial discrimination has been around for a long time. There are laws that are supposed to protect non whites from being racially discriminated against but these laws are not applied to everyone equally. There are a lot of different types of discrimination such as gender and age but the main type is racial. Racial discrimination still exist in America based on discrimination at work, police brutality, and arrest rates.

Being on the receiving end of discrimination is probably one of the most humiliating and belittling things one can face. Sometimes people emphasize the different types of discrimination and who can cause it, rather than focusing on the long-term effects of discrimination. Nowadays, there are a variety of campaigns, such as Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter that focus on different types of racial and civil injustice. While those campaigns are helpful, as they help bring to light problems that are not usually discussed in the open, the discussion is generally about the physical aspect of discrimination, but seldom about how the person(s) on the receiving end of discrimination feel and deal with discrimination.

Men within race categories including, black, Hispanic, and white, who applied for jobs in person was conducted. In another test, over 3,000 jobs were applied for online. Different to expectations, neither race nor prior prison record affected outcomes in the online application process. In contrast, both race and prison record had significant effects in the in-person analysis. The effect of a prison record was particularly strong for blacks. Race and prior prison sentence remain important obstacles to success in gaining employment. These results are strong for in-person job applications and are smaller for online job applications. “The manager pointed out my criminal record right away and told me that they couldn’t go any further with the interview. I asked why and she just said that they couldn’t hire me because of the criminal record,” this was said by a Hispanic male ex-prisoner. “The manager flipped over the resume and read the work experience and then said ‘I see you have been incarcerated, let’s talk about that’. He said unfortunately we are not looking to hire any parolees. The whole experience was less than 3 minutes,” this was said by a black male ex-prisoner. “The interview was only 5 minutes long. The manager asked me about my experience at a restaurant and then about the maintenance position at Arizona State Prison Complex-Winslow. It seemed like he started at the top of my resume and when he got to the Maintenance position at Winslow, he stopped reading,” this was said by a white male ex-prisoner (Decker,

Have you ever been joked at by people? For the color of your skin, for your ethnicity or belief? That is just one of many forms of racial discrimination. Racial discrimination has existed for a long time, and even though there have been efforts to stop racial discrimination, it occurs on an everyday basis. People with racial differences are set apart from the crowd and are harassed beyond belief. This results in divisions that have separated the world and has created many conflicts. So, if it’s so wrong, why is it still tolerated?