The Pros And Cons Of Segregation

This essay will be on the Segregation in Modern American Schools, how it affects the students, why it occurs, and the strides need to integrate. I picked this topic because I came from a town that was predominantly white. Therefore my school was predominantly white as well. I have always wondered if coming from this type of school has hindered my ability to interact with people of a different race, culture, or background. I also thought of how my education would have been different if I had been taught at a more diverse school. I would have learned more about other types of people not only from my teachers, but from my peers. I have always been interested in this topic and I think it affects more people than we think. Of course, it affects the students, but it also affects the teacher and the mass public. Culturally segregated schools are hindering learning environments. Black teachers teach at black schools, White teachers teach at white schools, so on and so forth with every race. The public is affected; because the schools in their area are not divers meaning their community is not diverse. Diversity is a catalyst for growth in all people. School and education is a great place to start the

I say that segregation is the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. Many Americans don’t want to admit it, but I’ll say that segregation is still around, sometimes by design and sometimes by choice. According to a study last year, 43% of Latinos and 38% of blacks go to schools where less than 10% of their peers are white, but beyond that, we often fail to talk about how segregation impacts us personally. How it permeates not only many of our public and private institutions, but American culture at large easily talk about culture or social segregation an area that we have control over, via the restaurants we patronize, the bars we drink at and the places we worship. People who have studied race, spent months abroad in India or Africa, tasted the best fufu and mofongo, read Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Pablo Neruda, and who may even have black “friends” or lovers, still too often manage to have a community that doesn't reflect diversity in their broader city or

With the advancement of thinking in the United States since the Jim Crow era, shouldn’t school segregation be a thing of the past? Well, this is an ongoing epidemic in the United States, and it has a dangerous effect on the youth. School segregation rates are at an all time high, and the main reason for this increase is residential segregation, or segregation of neighborhoods. Although school segregation can be a result of economic policy, housing policies have a greater influence on segregation. Many neighborhoods that are classified as low income, have a negative connotation attached with them. This causes a difference in funding of schools located in those districts, and those students end up paying the price.

Society, as we know it today, consists of people who have evolved and developed mentally, culturally, geographically, and physiologically. Because people come from different walks of life, segregation has played a significant role in America. It is seemingly inescapable. The term segregation is known for its infamous history and the negative impact it has had on society. Due to its reputation, it is very uncommon that one studies the word in a positive way contrary to its negative connotation, to find that it has two sides, both pros and cons. Due to this fact, in this paper I will discuss the pros and cons that can be associated with segregation.

During the time that Lerone Bennett wrote his article, Lincoln, a White Supremacist, the Civil Rights Movement was occurring. Those of African American descent were fighting for their right of equality. African Americans were treated poorly by the means of “Separate but equal.” Segregation, forcing one group to be inferior to another, was very widespread. Bennett, being of African American descent, would have faced the unfair, but “equal” rules of the time. Bennett is a prolific writer and a social historian. Bennett graduated from Morehouse College in 1949 and was an executive editor of Ebony Magazine. The main idea of Bennett’s article is, is Abraham Lincoln a white supremacist? Bennett’s purpose is quite clear. He is trying to persuade the

As an inhabitant of planet earth, I have watched the people grow and prosper and then fall back to old habits. Years ago, we were separated by race and even though we claim that time is over, it is not. Our country is a great example of segregation because we not only segregate by race, but by gender and sexual orientation as well. America was founded on preconceived expectations of gender and race leading to a segregation of consciousness that structures opinions around the injustices of stereotypes.

I believe that most Segregation is fear based and a small portion of it is race based. There are many people that have not allowed themselves to connect with other races and cultures. Their knowledge of other races and cultures is likely derived from other people opinions, as well as our Countries history, and stereotypes that are played out on a daily basis in the world.

After further research on each parts of the reconstruction, I have concluded that the African Americans did not reach full citizenship for many reasons, but three stood out: Black codes, Sharecropping and Poll taxes. First of all, the Black codes served three purposes and most codes called for the segregation of blacks and whites in public places. The purposes were to limit the rights of freedmen, help planters find workers to replace their slaves and to keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order in the South. Although this helped them on their way it also tore them down. Segregation came with the codes, Black kids had no public school to go to, African Americans right to vote or serve on juries was denied, and work was scarce. Therefore

Is segregation bad or is it good? Segregation is when someone is being seperated from others by color of their skin. Segregation in the U.S started right after the Civil War and continued until 1956. Personally, Segregation is bad because it is racist and it’s unconstitutional.

World War ll was a tragic and devastating time for citizens of their country all around all the world. Racism and segregation spread everywhere like a disease. There were over millions of casualties by then end the war.One event was sending all Japanese Americans to internment camps because of the bombing attack of Pearl Harbor. The most tragic event of all time within World War ll was the Holocaust. This is where the Nazis kept all Jews in Germany stuck in concentration camps all over their nation and killed over 6 millions Jews in total. Although World War ll was depressing, there are lessons that we can out from it.

Civil rights now still doesn’t secure us equality for all, we still have racial issues in our neighborhood or around us. In school we have segregation, but it's by choice, you see people from the same race tend to hang around one another more than different races together. I feel like everyone is just so used to being with their race that not there’s not many people that try to be friends with different races. There is a huge population of a certain race in specific neighborhoods, but nobody seems to notice because they are comfortable with it. Just because people are comfortable with who they're around doesn't mean there's no segregation. Then again, if both sides are fine with how things are it might not be a problem with it.

Most people think that schools are segregated because the neighborhoods happened to be segregated but the truth is the areas who have mixed income and mixed ethnicity, the middle class families that are often white do not like to send their children to a public school with poor black and Hispanic children so they put their children in charter school or gifted and talented programs. Making most public schools filled with black and Hispanic children. The public school that has 36 students in New York City is a great example with 96% of other students being either black or Hispanic and with an income of $36,000. In the other hand the school was not always like this the school's income was $69,000 and 37% of the student population was either black

Culture along with religion indoctrinates humans on what is right and wrong. Humans make decisions based on their culture and they believe their choice is correct. For example, the Aztecs used to carve out still-beating hearts from victims, as a necessary sacrifice to appease the gods. They believed without sacrifice, the gods would destroy their civilization. Understanding that the Aztecs literally thought the world would end if they did not sacrifice makes their actions conceivable, if not justified. This understanding must be applied to all cultures to understand their actions, including South Africa. In the 1950s, apartheid, a legal system of racial segregation, gained popularity and became part of the law. Through apartheid, blacks lived in deplorable conditions and in a society that hindered the development of black people. The control lay in the hands of the minority rule, whites. Compared to current society, these ideologies would be admonished and ignorant. Therefore, it is essential to have knowledge of apartheid in the South African culture in order to understand the relationship between Paulus Eysendyck and Thebedi.

Ethnic segregation is “The extent to which members of different of racial and ethnic groups are isolated within their own communities and have limited social interactions across these internal borders can be inferred from a segregation or dissimilarity index.” (The University of Arizona). Ethnic segregation is more common on college and university campuses than most other places in the world. Segregation is not a new topic to be talking about because when we look back into the early 1900’s we can easily see that segregation was inhibited among most everything you do once you step outside your house, the whites and colored weren’t allowed to do anything together. An article by Alana Semuel talks about how segregation had to be invented and a man in the article said, “People who are white want as little to do with black people as they can get away with”, these kinds of actions and types of separation caused extreme barriers or invisible lines/walls that are rarely crossed by people in our society today. These barriers produce the loss of uniqueness and talent among both groups of people, as well as individuals. I strongly believe differences and diversity should be celebrated as a chance or opportunity to be able to stand out as well as the chance to educate each other about the creation of man and woman. A document by the History Channel gives information on the reason America had almost split apart during the Civil War by telling us how the victory of the Union may have possibly given freedom to people of color, but with the “restrictive “black codes” to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans.”, but since then reformation and hard work have been the reason this country has stayed as one.

Impacts incorporate disengagement, conceivable avoidance, dampening, minimization, circumstances where self-regard, certainty and versatility can possibly be harmed.