Racial Violation In Education Case Study

During slavery and far beyond its end, Americans racial ideologies were used to sustain the white races position, and even scientists in general (Ferraro, and Andreatta, 2015, p. 308). White Americans saw blacks as unteachable, simple beasts, regardless of the fact that their treatment of slaves, and the restrictions they placed upon them were constructions meant to keep them from learning more than was necessary to do the work expected of them. However, one cannot help but learn, even when constricted to certain deeds and spaces; knowing is inevitable. Nevertheless, education became a gift not afforded to all; certainly not if it required financial funding and human resources of the white race, and definitely not if it assumed learning in proximity to white students. While there were eventually …show more content…
It was easy to conceive that the struggle was not with whether it was unsafe for blacks, considering they were considered second class. But rather whether whites felt protected in primary and secondary educational institutions with blacks sharing that space. For so long, the rights and comfort of white Americans had come first. Brown was the first indication that blacks should have equal access and rights to a constructive education, despite the probability that it may not be exactly comfortable due to expected resistance. It was also a different case from previous ones, as it was the first time that Court acknowledged “that even if tangible factors like facilities, teachers and supplies were equal, separation itself was inherently unequal and a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment” (The Leadership Conference, 2016). Desegregation was also promoted as being the answer to the problem of badly maintained black