Occupational segregation

Black Power Movements as A Violent Force to Ending Racial Oppression Millions of Americans were shocked when Olympic runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the award platform at the 1968 summer games in Mexico City bowed their heads and raised gloved fist hands during the playing of national anthem of the United States. In contrast, millions more people around the world excited to seeing two fearless African Americans and a white Australian, Peter Norman, standing solidly before the…

educator and author Pavla Voborníková states, “Steering is used today when realtors show whites and minorities houses in different neighborhoods.” This technique follows previous attempts at similar strategies. Voborníková also references previous segregation tactics such as blockbusting. In the past, blockbusting was used to sell houses to minorities at inflated prices. Although blockbusting…

For many years we have thought to come a long way in terms of racism and prejudice, but as we stated before no matter how far we have come it still exists today. Race rebellion and African American anger is a thing, and it is very warranted. It has been said that hip hop grew on and has actively addressed the role of anger and violence. Misinterpreting the presence of violence and drugs in hip hop can be considered as dismissing the Black Arts Movement and the connections between artistic…

Imagine waking into a store and feeling like your being watched by the workers around every corner. Knowing you have that target, that label, on you just because there are other people who “look like you”, makes it hard to be your own person without people having preconceived ideas about you. I feel that people judge because it gives them the feeling that they have an understanding of a situation and that they feel in control. In Akiba Solomon’s “Thugs. Students. Rioters. Fans” she explains…

Zootopia, as a whole, is about discrimination towards the different species in the animal kingdom, offering a direct relationship to that of the discrimination towards other races, ethnicities, and religions that we face in the real world. From the start of the film, Judy is discouraged by not only her peers, but her parents and society as a whole from becoming a police officer because of her species. Even when she performs higher than all of the other students at the academy and eventually…

Beginning of the Environmental Justice Movement In 1982, the North Carolina government decided to place 6,000 truckloads of soil containing toxic polychlorinated biphenyls in the city of Afton,Afton is a small community located in poor, rural Warren County, North Carolina, and at the time, had an 84 percent African-American population. Protesters against sitting the landfill in Afton argued that the sitting decision was discriminatory and was made because the community was minority and poor.…

When we consider the connection between race and housing in post-WWII America, it is one that is marked by exclusion from opportunity, and continued segregation. While the racist practices of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and segregated communities do support this notion, the connection is (too) often related to homeownership alone. In fact, many racial groups, namely Black Americans, faced housing discrimination as renters. This did not necessarily entail exclusion from rental…

disappointed” (Letter from Birmingham Jail). In many efforts to bring an end to the segregation, Dr. King was let down by the other person. However, he continued to fight for African Americans’ civil rights. He delivered one of the most famous speeches of our country’s history, “I Have a Dream.” Hundreds of thousands of people gathered to hear Dr. King speak about his hopes for the future and bringing an end to segregation. As King continued to attract more and more activists, he also began to…

The Case for Reparations is intensely englighful on why black people are in the predicament we are in now. As a race, we cannot act as victims but instead, work to be on top or at least finally equal. The case for reparations is real and they are well deserved considering the struggle black people have always had to go through. Coates explains in detail with human examples of people being legally mistreated and stolen from. “Ross had tried to get a legitimate mortgage in another neighborhood,…

"This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened … It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.” —John F. Kennedy 1948, 1954, 1967. These seem like random years but they're actually very important dates in the civil acts movement.…