Analysis Of No Place Like Home

While a statewide report, there are many suburbs in Minnesota that have are majority white, and their schools are majority white with advanced courses, which shows that race, ethnicity, and economic class do play a role in enrollment in advanced courses, as students of a higher economic class had the opportunity to take advanced courses. The bit of diversity in my advanced courses, however, was not reflected in the students who actually took the exams. While there are no longer any policies that forbid minority students access to education, there is still a huge racial divide. As Brian McCabe, sociologist and author of No Place Like Home, wrote, “programs… created opportunities for millions of Americans to own their own homes, they also contributed to the persistence of racial and residential segregation” (McCabe 48). The exclusive policies of programs designed create more opportunities for Americans to own their own homes is like the advanced courses that can be taken in high school, with its racial divide and help from an administrative figure. However, there are no policies that forbid minority students access to advanced courses, as there were policies that did forbid minorities from receiving the same aid that white people received. While diversity has increased in the population …show more content…
Why have I abandoned my Chinese background? I do not see it as “abandoning” any part of my life or my identity, and I think it would be wrong to say I have a connection to my Chinese background, as I have not done anything to keep that as a part of who I am. On the contrary, I have had family members ask why I was going to the Flight Program, as they have always seen me as white. Like some of my previous teachers, they have assigned an identity to me that I did not agree with, and it was hard for them to understand that I did see myself as Asian, I just grew up