The Philadelphia Negro And The Diversity Bargain

The ideas of slavery have resonated throughout American society, allowing many individuals of color to experience systemic forces of racism that hinder their abilities to obtain success. Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 accentuates that these Racist ideas have continued to plague marginalized groups and have led to the development of societal hatred. Institutionalized racism remains a major issue within American society, as thousands of individuals of color continue to endure poverty, police brutality, and lack of educational resources that have created a racial and class divide between white individuals and individuals of color. In Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Anna Deavere Smith illuminates these racist barriers constructed by

The system has also privatized the school and prison system, which go hand in hand with the economic reality of today. The racial disparities of today, was triggered by the downfall of the economic system that is in place right now. Families are struggling and individuals are looking for a way out. This paper will identify the realities African Americans face with the issue of economic justice along in the United States.

In the article Black Philly After The Philadelphia Negro, Marcus Anthony Hunter examines public housing and policy reforms in the Black Seventh Ward during the 1920s-1940s. The Seventh Ward experienced urban decay, followed by gentrification leaving its residents living in slums, abandoned, and further mistreated. Presently in Rio the same process is occurring in the village Rio De Janeiero. Although community members are actively protesting against the construction of the Olympic Stadium, residents are being evicted, leaving them homeless.

Even though black people have descendants who suffered much more inequality issues than they have faced nowadays, they still have to deal with this historical problem in different ways. The wealth gap between whites and blacks is huge, “every extra dollar of income earned by whites generates $5.19 in new wealth over 25 years while another dollar of income for a black family adds a mere 69 cents to its bottom line (Starkman)”. These numbers show us that we still live in a segregated

There have been many articles published about the transformation of cities in regards to industrial improvements, communities blooming with mass migrations, and standards of living. A number of different cultures have migrated to rural and urban populations and among those mass migrations there were African Americans. Although immigrants went through hardships such as harsh living conditions and low status, they didn’t have to go through as much trouble as African Americans did. African Americans who moved into the city were not on top of the priority list to most. They were not given the time of day to their needs. Race affected these urban dwellers because of discrimination, living conditions, and inequality.

Community and diversity are two of the most prominent factors colleges and universities use to attract students. At Temple University, it is easy to see that the school tries hard to implement these words into our heads whether it be succeeding or failing in reality. Temple makes it known in their mission statement, policies, and standing proof that they surely uphold the title as being one of the most diverse schools in the nation. However, after reading the chapter about Rebekah Nathan’s experience in My Freshman Year, I recognized her assessment among freshman is similar to that of my own granted it had not been completely

Hannah-Jones examines the impact residential segregation: “Cities have largely been abandoned by white Americans, you have massive public housing projects, where nearly everyone in there is black and poor, and even if you’re middle class and black, you can’t move out” (Hannah-Jones, This American Life). Thus the government promoted segregation by redlining black communities, and white Americans moved into suburbs. And although the Fair Housing Act of 1968 was intended to end residential discrimination, Updike and Hannah Jones describe the lack of progress: “We no longer have segregation by law, but we still have segregation by fact, and this moderate view says that there's nothing we can or should do about it” (Hannah-Jones, This American Life). With residential segregation as an absolute fact, black Americans are left to suffer in unescapable ghettos – and often turn to drugs and violence – while white Americans enjoy extreme privilege. Michelle Alexander explores the significance of this discrepancy in her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of

Johnathon Scott Halloway’s Confronting the Veil explores the scholarly and social history of Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche during their early careers. These notable men formed an alliance that led the Division of Social Sciences at Howard University during the New Deal. During these years they eventually started a movement of young black radical scholars. At the nucleus of their intellectual radicalism was the notion that class status was to blame for African American’s more than race for black Americans’ degraded position in society. This notion was compared to idea that race was the issue and the answer to the question of Holloway’s study of Harris, Frazier, and Bunche exam ines how the three promoted the

The socioeconomic gap that exists between white and black Americans is a topic that no one seems to know how to solve. In previous years it was easy to collectively point to one factor that caused this gap but in more recent times it has became a point of discussion and disagreement in the black community. The debate rests in the question of whether or not the socioeconomic gap between blacks and their white counterparts is a result of blacks being lazy or it is because of structural discrimination that are embedded in the laws and policies of the United States. The general consensus is that it is a mixture of the two explanations. People differ on how many of each explanation contributes to the problem and in turn they disagree on what the solution should be.

In George Edmund Haynes’ Conditions among Negroes in the Cities and Whitney M. Young, Jr.’s The Urban League and Its Strategy, the authors present determine factors of racial inequality in the American cities. In addition, providing concrete solutions to the societal epidemic that swept across America.

Throughout the Americas, the notion of race has been commonly used for making social distinctions (Telles, & Paschel, 2014) Race continues to influence power relations, construction of identities and resource distribution (Jenkins & Dillon 2012). The consequences of slavery led to desegregation and since then there has been ongoing issues of discrimination, prejudice, hate crimes, regarding race in the United States (Lee, & Bean, 2007). W.E.B. Dubois, in 1903, predicted that the issues of the twentieth century would be problems of the color line, by which he meant a metaphorical line that divides the country for historical reasons (Lee, & Bean, 2007). His prediction was spot on, because what was set in motion was a series of black and white

When the topic of race relations is brought up, there are many different views. There are three men who are most commonly known for their relations with racial segregation. All three men had different views concerning this topic ranging from segregation to sending them back to Africa. Each man thought his perspective on ending the African American discrimination would be the “. . . best to achieve equality. . .” (African-Americans). The perceptions of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey are going to be compared and contrasted in regards to their individual approach to race relations of the African-American people.

In another ethnographic work, Jonathan Rieder specifies on provocative and poignant responses to racial busing by Jews and Italians living in Canarsie. In a similar class discussion, Professor Wilson points out the facts of the elimination of racial barriers helped united and destroy issues in different economic sectors. Interracial unionization eliminate split labor market between blacks and whites where blacks were granted a lower wage and thus forced to depress the wages of Caucasian workers in a competitive labor workforce. With this malfunction of racial conflicts over job opportunities, Wilson argued, racial differences shifted from the sociopolitical sectors to the economic sector, due to access to resources such as prime neighborhoods, housing, and education. Canarsie served a prime example of such shifts in the racial conflict over the politics of education and real estate.

In The Racial Contract, it is argued that contemporary structures of white domination in the United States operate by means of an epistemology of ignorance for white people. White people inadvertently suffer from cognitive dysfunctions such that they cannot understand the racially (and racistly) structured world in which they live and, indeed, helped create. For Mills, while no person of any race is self-transparent, becoming a white person entails a particularly extreme form of self-opacity regarding issues of race that corresponds with a conspicuously bad or offensive misunderstanding of the world. Recently with the invasion of Iraq, the president has proven that white people believe that they are correct when that in any given conflict

Throughout American History the influence of race has been pervasive. In the post WWI period, people of color experienced immense discrimination and racism in their consumption. Due to the systematic racism, divergent economies arose in the ghetto and the suburbs. The term ghetto does not only represent the inner city, but rather intentional state policy that subjected blacks to inequalities of consumption, labor and the economy. Often, people of color were of lower socioeconomic class, but they paid more for the goods and services they consumed. Despite the lower income in black households, they had to pay two hundred and fifty-five dollars for an item that costs one-hundred and fifty-nine dollars in the suburbs. The Federal Trade Commission