American sociologists

in an alarming number of African American males in correctional facilities. Statistically,…

The United Province’s economy during the Golden Age of the United Provinces is a shining example of positive impacts from immigration. “There was an extraordinary volume of property, materials, good and services on the market, all available at a moment’s notice.”2 Important contributors to Amsterdam’s seemingly endless abundance of goods and capital were indeed immigrants seeking both economic opportunity and asylum. “Among the stream of refugees—French Protestants, [those from Antwerp], Jews…

American Promise is a documentary film that captures the experiences of Idris Brewster and Seun Summers two middle-class African American boys from Brooklyn. Recorded over the span of thirteen years, this film chronicles their journeys at the Dalton School, one of the most prestigious private schools in the US. While this documentary raises serious concerns and challenges to the widely held American Dream, it presents us with a much needed insight on the realities of class, race, and opportunity…

We`re at a point where race is a big part of our lives. How we look, where we live, who we interact with and how we live are scripted by it. Statistics from the US Department of Labor and the Pew Research Center clearly show that there are patterns of racial difference within the amount of earning, access to healthcare and insurance, academic achievement and representation in professional sports (Fuentes chap 4). To know the reason how we come to this, first we should go back to how the theory…

Race was conceptualized in order to categorize the variation in human skin color and physical features, establish a hierarchy based on skin tone, and justify the positions of racial groups such as the enslavement of black people. Although race is a social construct, the effects as well as the struggles racial minorities experience are real. Racial minorities typically find themselves struggling to wade through racism weaved into our political and social institutions. Institutionalized…

Happened to the American Dream? “The U.S worked hard to create the American dream of opportunity. Joseph Stiglitz a Nobel prize recipient and an economic professor at Columbia University said, but today that dream is a myth”(Picchi). The “American Dream” is a concept used to describe the American lifestyle. The idea of the American Dream has been imbedded in our heads as the ultimate goal and definition of success. The media, the T.V shows and the books push it in our head what our American…

of all black Americans? Mass incarceration affects lives of black Americans in multiple ways, blacks are prosecuted for every little thing they do. They take one wrong step or same something that sounds wrong they are stopped by the police or labeled by other races. Blacks are always being accused of having drugs or being tied into a crime. They are always the ones being punished or looked at when something is going wrong. This affects the families because for those African American men who are…

transforming the research agenda of Scholar working on the history of Afro-American. Wilson, an eminent Sociologist spent most of his career confronting one of the nation’s most perplexed topic: namely the deep and highly persistent inner city poverty in America. In this both highly acclaimed yet highly controversial book Wilson theorizes that the significance of race is waning, it therefore follows that among African Americans, ‘class’ was comparatively more important in terms of determining an…

#BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Book Review As a sociologist, I am continually interested in engaging with social movements that are happening. That interest is what led me to choose From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation to do my book review on. This book analyzes the development of politics in the United States and further argues that even though we have an African American president, America is a racialized society and African Americans face inequality in three prominent molds;…

hence we have come to realize how racist we really are as a society and how big of an issue racism actually is even now. In the textbook Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory, we are introduced to some of the first sociologists and their theories. Two sociologists that are relevant to present issues about racism would be Emile Durkheim and W.E.B. Du Bois. In Durkheim’s The Rules of Sociological Method, he mentions that crime is necessary…