The Effect Of Student Group On Race Relations

    The practice of ethnic separation and segregation is common on every college and university campus. Since this practice has happened through history, it is remarkable that this has only been recognized recently as a true problem (Jacobs, 2). Segregation has hampered America as long as it has existed. Ethnicity and segregation was nearly the cause of this country splitting apart during the Civil War. Since then reformation and hard work has attempted to bring unity to this country. Though today, college students have regressed, university pupils are "standing by" their own and are not branching out to those who are unlike them in ethnicity. People in general, but more specifically college students

Three sociological perspectives used in the study of minorities are: Structural functionalism, symbolic interactionalism and conflict theory. These perspectives offer "theoretical paradigms" for explaining how society influences people, taking into account the social factors that impact on human behavior. However, different theories, ideas, and prejudices can influence a sociologist's conclusions. Each of these theories has a contribution to make with a distinct focus.

On behalf of the Black Student Union at the University of Houston, I would like to invite you in

Racial diversity is something that is often discussed on college campuses. As a student who self-identifies as a minority in more ways than one I often feel like I have a pretty good understanding of the subject of racism and race. However, often times when these issue are discussed I learn something new; this was the case when reading the articles this week. This week’s articles examined the issue of race from different perspectives. This allowed me to re-examine the issue in a fuller manner; it also allowed me to question some of my own notions that I hadn’t really challenged before.

A couple years ago in 1954 the U.s supreme Court overturned the concept of separate but really equal. Years after the Supreme Court declared race-based segregation illegal. A little military showdown took place in Little rock, AR sep.3 nine black student attempted to go to an all white High School. Eisenhower order the troops of the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock. This action was marking the first time the United states troop were sent to the south since Reconstruction.

Race relations in the United States have never been perfect, and with the inauguration of the country’s first black president, most people believed that race relations would improve. Then came Ferguson. Then came Baltimore. Then came the murder of more than 350 unarmed blacks by police officers in 2015. 35% of Americans are “worried a great deal” about racial relations in the United States―double what it was in 2014 (Norman). Since information and breaking news is so easy to share with people in this age, news of these killings spread much faster. These problems have been around forever, but the issue has never been broadcasted on the scale it is now. US citizens, and blacks, in particular, are upset with the current criminal justice system;

Does joining a minority organization affect the social, mental, and psychological being of minority students on predominantly white campuses?

With the many social issues that are being addressed, the efforts to promote change lead to student participation. Their active participation leads to others getting educated. “In our current political situation, harassment of marginalized communities are increasing.  Clubs like ours help promote safe spaces and hopefully that comes with tolerance,” say Jeffrey Leung, officer of the Gender Equity Club.

The openness of talking race on campus not only reflects one group or one individual’s attitude on racial issues, but also reflects prevailing campus climates. More importantly, talking about race will also reveal the social climate on race talk nationwide. Other than the importance of race talk, having a campus with racial diversity also helps with achieving successful race talk among students. Orfield & Whitla (1999) found that the racially diverse campus climate benefits students’ subjective assessment by interacting with their peers from various racial groups. Other research also supported the idea of encouraging more racial interactions and race talk on campus. Living on-campus and participating in racial or cultural activities has a positive impact on students’ openness toward racial and cultural diversity (Sanner, Baldwin, Cannella, Charles, & Parker, 2010). For example, at University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), there is a program called Conversation Partners, which aims to match international students with local students to promote more interactions among students from different cultures. This program creates liberty to talk about race by helping people of different races establish friendships. Conversations about race at universities are reenacted daily in classrooms, places of employment, and any situation where race becomes the focus

Many students answered that they have experienced or witnessed some form of racism in a school setting. According to Richard Morgan (2015), collaborative learning groups not only motivate academic growth, they can also be used as a tool to successfully eliminate racism in classrooms. Furthermore, by using multisensory teaching methods such bringing items that represent the students’ race and implementing lessons on racism students can be made aware of racism. They can also be taught of how to overcome it (Provini, 2012). Interaction with students of various ethnicities and race will expose students to the different cultures and also alleviate stereotypes and racist

When Sociologists say that race is a social construction, they mean that it is brought by social aspects without biological meaning. “Race is not biological. It is a social construct. There is no gene or cluster of genes common to all blacks or all whites. Were race “real” in the genetic sense, racial classifications for individuals would remain constant across boundaries.” (Nytimes.com) Divides still exist today between blacks and whites, but progress is being made. Race is socially driven, our ideas and views about the topic are helped by the opinions of others. The best example of race as a social construct are Hispanics. This is because there is no such thing as a Hispanic. This word was created by the Census Bureau to categorize

Having the idea of separation for college dorms based on race is a huge step backwards because the concept is very limited,it just simply allows people to stay narrow-minded.The idea of housing for one specific minority group simply sets us back decades and runs counter to the aims of the civil rights movement.As well as,this extension of segregation can be viewed as the modern-day version,of the concept,"Equal but segregated".

Race is a classification system that is invented by humans; therefore, it is not something that is natural. Race is also a perspective that is socially created, it is not the work of a single human being but a creation of the society as a whole. The fundamentals of race also entail that as society changes so does the idea of race.

Before people were calling their self-one race and did not have people going around saying or claiming different races but as of the 2000 national census marked an important change in how we measure race in the United States. Race classification is the social problem that is discussed in this passage. A lot of people in the article stated that they were black and white, white and Asian, as well as white and Indian. But overall the social problems have something to do with the United States categorizing people into races. Race is a socially constructed concept, social construction concerns the significance, perception, or meaning placed on an object or event by a society, and adopted by the inhabitants of that society with respect to how they view or deal with the object or event.

Racial matters were mostly dealt with the Allgemeine-SS. It was divided into many other sub-groups, from which the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA: Reich Security Central Office) was the most important. This group controlled the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo: Security Police), which consisted of the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo: Criminal Police) and the infamous Gestapo which was led by Heinrich Mueller. The Sicherheitsdienst (SD: Security Service) was another sub-group of the RHSA that specialized in intelligence and espionage.