Over the past 85 years, the United States has improved slightly in the treatment of African Americans. While African Americans have gained a lot of rights since the 1800s, there is still a stigma of inferiority for African Americans that has lingered from the times of slavery. The improved race relations between whites and blacks are a clear example of the progress we have made; however, the discrimination of black people in some establishments are a reminder that there is still a lot of progress to be made.
Since the 1930s, race relations between blacks and whites have improved. In his novel, Light in August, William Faulkner depicts how uncommon relationships were between whites and blacks in the 1930s. Although Brown, a white man, and Christmas, a man of mixed race, are coworkers and spent a lot of time with one another, Brown tells Christmas to “take …show more content…
In his article, “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-nehisi Coates describes how, between the 1930s and 1960s, African Americans were not able to obtain the “final badge of entry into...the American middle class” through owning a home, because they were “cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market” (Coates). Like many other African Americans, Clyde Ross got a house by buying “on contract” which subjected him to “the responsibilities of homeownership” and “the disadvantages of renting” (Coates). Contract sellers would “sell homes at inflated prices and then evict families who could not pay” and then repeat this cycle with “another black family” (Coates). Through his article, Coates illustrates one main way that African Americans were discriminated against. The United States has made efforts to prohibit discrimination based on race in regards to obtaining a mortgage by passing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Fair Housing Act. The passing of these acts illustrates how the United States has made steps toward racial
Since the 1930s, race relations between blacks and whites have improved. In his novel, Light in August, William Faulkner depicts how uncommon relationships were between whites and blacks in the 1930s. Although Brown, a white man, and Christmas, a man of mixed race, are coworkers and spent a lot of time with one another, Brown tells Christmas to “take …show more content…
In his article, “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-nehisi Coates describes how, between the 1930s and 1960s, African Americans were not able to obtain the “final badge of entry into...the American middle class” through owning a home, because they were “cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market” (Coates). Like many other African Americans, Clyde Ross got a house by buying “on contract” which subjected him to “the responsibilities of homeownership” and “the disadvantages of renting” (Coates). Contract sellers would “sell homes at inflated prices and then evict families who could not pay” and then repeat this cycle with “another black family” (Coates). Through his article, Coates illustrates one main way that African Americans were discriminated against. The United States has made efforts to prohibit discrimination based on race in regards to obtaining a mortgage by passing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Fair Housing Act. The passing of these acts illustrates how the United States has made steps toward racial