In Settling for a Squalor: A Hardship to call ‘home’, Jessica Floum focuses on Ambrocio and her families living conditions as migrant workers in the United States. Ambrocio and her family live in terrible living conditions among many other Florida agricultural migrant workers. Floum discusses the terrible living conditions where sewage and mold infest the homes that hundreds of thousands of people live in with their families. One may wonder how this is acceptable under Florida law. Floum discusses that the law requires Florida officials to do health inspections several times a year, but these inspections overlook the terrible living conditions. Not only are these workers doing extreme manual labor each day for very low pay but they also endure
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In “Who Rules America”, Domhoff emphasizes the corporate elites role in creating an unfair societal structure. Elites dominate the large bureaucratic structured organizations that have “authority over the lower-level employees to shape political and many other outcomes outside their organizations” (page 21). Domhoff examines the elite by seeing the ties that multiple large corporations have to one another and dividing it into 3 sects: “who benefits? Who governs? And who wins?” (Page 15). This corporate community that is formed places people of upper class into the powerful positions that intersect the corporate community and the policy-planning network. This power elite makes it difficult for people like Ambrocio to live in society while supporting themselves. Ambrocio’s life is controlled by people that focus on the wealth and needs of the upper/middle class. The “corporate community attempts to influence both the government and the general population in a conscious and planned manner” (page 19) which continuously places its own people in positions of power (Domhoff, 2010). This elite not only controls Ambrocio's life but all aspects of the government because having these people in power only allows for the benefit of their economic interest. This prevents the mobility of people of color living in poverty because it silences the voices of oppressed groups. …show more content…
In his book, he discusses color-blind racism being the “ideological armor for a covert and institutionalized system in the post-civil rights era ” (page 3). This new wave of racism justifies racial inequalities as an effect of non-racial dynamics. Color-blind racism is the false ideology that racism is no longer a problem because of post civil rights laws. This colorblind racism allows people to hide behind racist ideologies that further oppress people of color. People that believe racism is over are able to look at impoverished families and justify their place in society by rationalizing their status as the product of “market dynamics, naturally occurring phenomena, and blacks imputed cultural limitations” (Bonilla-Silva, 2014). For instance white people may attribute Ambrocio’s conditions with the theory that Latinos high poverty rate is due to a relaxed work ethic but this is an extremely racists ideology. This is one way of justifying unequal class but this justification can also been done through things like
In “Who Rules America”, Domhoff emphasizes the corporate elites role in creating an unfair societal structure. Elites dominate the large bureaucratic structured organizations that have “authority over the lower-level employees to shape political and many other outcomes outside their organizations” (page 21). Domhoff examines the elite by seeing the ties that multiple large corporations have to one another and dividing it into 3 sects: “who benefits? Who governs? And who wins?” (Page 15). This corporate community that is formed places people of upper class into the powerful positions that intersect the corporate community and the policy-planning network. This power elite makes it difficult for people like Ambrocio to live in society while supporting themselves. Ambrocio’s life is controlled by people that focus on the wealth and needs of the upper/middle class. The “corporate community attempts to influence both the government and the general population in a conscious and planned manner” (page 19) which continuously places its own people in positions of power (Domhoff, 2010). This elite not only controls Ambrocio's life but all aspects of the government because having these people in power only allows for the benefit of their economic interest. This prevents the mobility of people of color living in poverty because it silences the voices of oppressed groups. …show more content…
In his book, he discusses color-blind racism being the “ideological armor for a covert and institutionalized system in the post-civil rights era ” (page 3). This new wave of racism justifies racial inequalities as an effect of non-racial dynamics. Color-blind racism is the false ideology that racism is no longer a problem because of post civil rights laws. This colorblind racism allows people to hide behind racist ideologies that further oppress people of color. People that believe racism is over are able to look at impoverished families and justify their place in society by rationalizing their status as the product of “market dynamics, naturally occurring phenomena, and blacks imputed cultural limitations” (Bonilla-Silva, 2014). For instance white people may attribute Ambrocio’s conditions with the theory that Latinos high poverty rate is due to a relaxed work ethic but this is an extremely racists ideology. This is one way of justifying unequal class but this justification can also been done through things like