The Role Of Race In Social Interaction In The United States

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Race has always played a role in social interaction in the United States. As the education system continues to grow it is becoming less stable in the Caucasian majority as the biracial population continues to grow. James A. Banks states that “American culture is either forced to adjust the system to make room for the person or adjust the person to fit into the system.” (Page 128). As a result, biracial community in schools had taken a toll on racial majorities by either influencing adjustments on them or adjusting to a different race themselves. Additionally, minority enrollment is growing so fast that 1 out of 5 students enrolling in a public school are Latino/Hispanic; overtime this has caused minorities to fall into their own “assimilated

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