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AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: SOCIOECONOMIC AND POLITICAL INEQUALITY AMONG CONVICTED FELONS By SEAN W. PHILLIPS Arizona State University This intent of this article is to examine the negative socioeconomic and political effects on African American men after they have a felony criminal record. I will also examine the level of equality that exists between White men and Black men in respect to their socioeconomic and political standing after they have a felony

Therefore, the only thing I could think of is my race. I am one of very few African Americans on the campus and one of few African American male teachers in the school district. Although most schools in the district have over 90% minority students, which is not the case when it comes to the numbers of minority educators in the classroom. This is not just a problem

and gender explains why America is unequal because the article explains that white males have the most contracts which are papers a person signs to do the job given to them and they also get paid more amount of money compared to women and people that are colored. It mentions that 72% of actors in theater are white and the next highest group represented is African Americans at 8%. For a lead role, African Americans get paid $150 more than a white actor on average for a week. Also, for the chorus of

reading “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates I then began to reflect on the way I view things. In all the book is more so in letter format to his fifteen year old son Sam. The letter is a piece of advice about how to endure reality as an African-American in the world today. After reading the book I was able to understand the point of view from which the author was writing from, as well as understand the view from Samori being that I was a child at the time some of the events mentioned took place

Race, simple external differences linked to other complex internal differences, has historically created issues in American society. “Race and racial inequalities are one of the most vital issues confronting contemporary U.S. society,” explains Sociologist Ronald Takaki. In the past race has had both biological and social implications across the country. However, the video Race: The Power of Illusion presents significant evidence refuting the biological theories of race. Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory

explaining the different political views from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois. Both of these male African American male are very important yet their thoughts about political views are very different. They both had disagreements on African american social and economic progress. In this paper I will also be stating which political view I agree with. Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans should get education and eventually they will get equality. He believed blacks were more beneficially

in business, I believe this will help to understand what effects they have on the challenges that African American Women(AAW) face. Although women owned business have been steadily increasing rapidly in growth in the US economy there are certain challenges that specifically African American women have been found to have to face that may hinder them from reaching the same potential afforded their male counterparts. In a journal writing written by the international labor organization(ILO) they focused

Civil Rights movement, and many others, African Americans are still in a critical battle for equal and fair treatment by the judiciary body of government. The disproportion of blacks being murdered by civil servants in relation to the Caucasian percentage is highly alarming and telling of how far this country still has to progress. It seems as every day, new footage is being released that shows police officers shooting unarmed black citizens. The African American’s uphill battle is one of the most

the American culture for a long time. Racial profiling affects people from various backgrounds. Racial profiling can occur at any point life including, walking, driving and traveling. Minorities living in urban communities are the most affected by racial profiling. The paper will mainly focus on the biggest group targeted by racial profiling, which are African Americans. Researchers agree that racial profiling is one factor that has led to high incarceration rates among African-American males. The

disproportionately affected minority groups, such as African Americans and Latinos leading to confinement, probation or parole. But what is mass incarceration? According to the Oxford Bibliographies, “mass incarceration is a phenomenon that refers to the current American experiment in incarceration, which is defined by comparatively and historically extreme rates of imprisonment and by the concentration of imprisonment among young, African American men” (Wildeman,2012). As a result, a culture of punishment