To many, segregation is a thing of the past; a painful reminder of our nation 's history that has been cured through laws set by the government and is only alive today in history books. However, segregation based on race, color and class is still a persistent problem that affects many school districts across the nation, putting the education of children of color and low income families at risk and unequal to that of their white counterparts. In the book Elizabeth and Hazel, David Margolick documents the tension and violence that marked the integration of nine African Americans into Little Rock, Arkansas’s all white Central High School. Margolick explains the relationship between Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine black students integrated into
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An interesting article from Richard Rothstein, “Why our Schools are Segregated,” explains it all and shows how we are leading this from past history and how white people still today make things more disunited with people of color. Rothstein states, “In urban areas, low-income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle-class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students. Although immigrant, low-income Hispanic students are also concentrated in schools, by the third generation, their families are more likely to settle in more middle-class neighborhoods.” Rothstein shows and elaborates an important issue in which leads to segregation today. In the reading of Elizabeth and Hazel, two women with different personalities with distinct backgrounds both attended the Central High school in which was less diverse than today, but you can relate in such a way in which Hazel a white woman and Elizabeth being black didn’t cope with one another. Elizabeth was discriminated and hated by many people because of her color, which shows you how America didn’t have any equality in race at all, and showing the same ideal concept in today’s schools. A major difference that that brings into America is that segregation was legal before …show more content…
Places such as the Lower East Side in Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn which were once dominated by poor and working class families made up mostly of Blacks, Hispanics and other immigrants have become too expensive to live in, and the poorer people are being kicked out by the wealthy. This in effect is further isolating poor minorities with rich whites, and separating whole neighborhoods. Now schools are being affected, schools are becoming all white and/or wealthy or all poor and/or heavily African American or Hispanic. The City has promised to stop this trend, however there is uncertainty on how it can happen. Jamelle Bouie the writer of the article, “Still Separated and Unequal,” justifies an important message that relates to the effect of these trends and distinctions that are still reoccurring today. As stated by Jamelle Bourie, “The problem today is that these gains are reversing. As the Civil Rights Project shows, minority students across the country are more likely to attend majority-minority schools than they were a generation ago. The average white student, for instance, attends a school that’s 73 percent white, 8 percent black, 12 percent Latino, and 4 percent Asian-American. By contrast, the average black student attends a school that’s 49 percent black, 17 percent Latino, 4 percent Asian-American, and 28 percent white.” This relates to my point of view
An interesting article from Richard Rothstein, “Why our Schools are Segregated,” explains it all and shows how we are leading this from past history and how white people still today make things more disunited with people of color. Rothstein states, “In urban areas, low-income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle-class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students. Although immigrant, low-income Hispanic students are also concentrated in schools, by the third generation, their families are more likely to settle in more middle-class neighborhoods.” Rothstein shows and elaborates an important issue in which leads to segregation today. In the reading of Elizabeth and Hazel, two women with different personalities with distinct backgrounds both attended the Central High school in which was less diverse than today, but you can relate in such a way in which Hazel a white woman and Elizabeth being black didn’t cope with one another. Elizabeth was discriminated and hated by many people because of her color, which shows you how America didn’t have any equality in race at all, and showing the same ideal concept in today’s schools. A major difference that that brings into America is that segregation was legal before …show more content…
Places such as the Lower East Side in Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn which were once dominated by poor and working class families made up mostly of Blacks, Hispanics and other immigrants have become too expensive to live in, and the poorer people are being kicked out by the wealthy. This in effect is further isolating poor minorities with rich whites, and separating whole neighborhoods. Now schools are being affected, schools are becoming all white and/or wealthy or all poor and/or heavily African American or Hispanic. The City has promised to stop this trend, however there is uncertainty on how it can happen. Jamelle Bouie the writer of the article, “Still Separated and Unequal,” justifies an important message that relates to the effect of these trends and distinctions that are still reoccurring today. As stated by Jamelle Bourie, “The problem today is that these gains are reversing. As the Civil Rights Project shows, minority students across the country are more likely to attend majority-minority schools than they were a generation ago. The average white student, for instance, attends a school that’s 73 percent white, 8 percent black, 12 percent Latino, and 4 percent Asian-American. By contrast, the average black student attends a school that’s 49 percent black, 17 percent Latino, 4 percent Asian-American, and 28 percent white.” This relates to my point of view