My Auto-Ethnography

Over the last decades, the achievement gap between white and black students has grown significantly due to a plethora of reasons such as race, income, and lack of a quality education. The purpose of my auto-ethnography is to explore how race and inequality played a role in my high school and has contributed to the ever growing epidemic of blacks having access to a quality and equal education. In order, to execute my purpose, I want to illustrate how living in a low income, crime infested community, and predominately black community has contributed to high school dropouts, underqualified teachers, and low test scores. Including real personal examples of how obtaining an education in my community has not only aided and abetting the advancement of whites not only for me, but rest of my fellow counterparts. I will be linking my high school experiences to different epidemics that surround education and the …show more content…
Blacks fighting for an education dates all the way back to slavery times, but fast forward to 21st century and guess what? We’re still fighting. There are remnants of history being seen over and over again in the present such as a quality education being on reservation solely for white people. Essentially, education is being roped into being a white privilege. However, our world sees an unequal education amongst races as a thing of the past, but it isn’t. It’s very much so present in today’s world. For example, past observations that dates back to the over ten years ago showcases the high rate of African American high school drop outs and the declining amount of them pursing higher education. A problem such as this is still evident and rising. My auto-ethnography of my high school experience will correlate with different stigmas and stereotypes that surround the African-American community and