Redlining

Question 3: In Gerald Cohen’s Why Not Socialism, he discusses three types of equality of opportunity: bourgeois equality of opportunity, left-liberal equality of opportunity, and socialist equality of opportunity. Bourgeois equality of opportunity advocates for removal of, “socially constructed status restrictions, both formal and informal, on life chances” (Cohen, 15). Cohen explains formal and informal restrictions using the examples of serfdom in feudal times and the impact of race on life…

As this class has made clear, oppression doesn’t live in isolation. Every form of oppression intersects and melds together in the mainstream, creating subsets and building traits that both make them similar and set them apart from the others. All forms of oppression affect one another, but during the class I saw particular correlation between classism and racism. These forms of oppression have a great deal in common, but also have aspects that make them distinctive. Among many things, I noticed…

Modern media portrayals of race relations in the United States paint a picture of a relatively successful social and economic climb for people of color. These portrayals may suggest an integrated, equal society, but frequently are far from the truth. While middle-class people of color certainly exist, these portrayals hide the insidious nature of the normalization of “whiteness” and the racial stratification and inequality from which results. The privilege attributed to being white and the…

The capitalistic approach to economy has created a complex system of wealth distribution that functions in cycles leaving certain groups successful and other groups impoverished. Capitalism functions as a system with the end goal of creating profit. Two sides of capitalism, production and financialization, have a complicated relationship that creates and destroys global world powers. The cyclic nature of civilizations, from productive capital to financial capital, and eventually to demise, has…

There exists a pattern of historically disenfranchised groups in the United States, such as minorities and low-income communities, being exposed to a disproportionate level of environmental hazards such as toxic waste, pollution and urban decay. This relationship between social and environmental aspects has been termed environmental racism, and beginning in the mid to late 20th century the Environmental Justice Movement grew to combat the politically normalized existence of environmental racism…

In the United States, there is in place a system of oppression that every Black citizen must live with every day of their lives. In this system, they are socially characterized as being everything that is wrong with society. In the system, Black people are considered poor, uneducated, and criminal—all things that the American society fights against. Since their importation to the new land, Blacks have been considered to be an inferior race in the country. Over the years, this idea has manifested…

Introduction I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in the nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. This are the powerful words of Martin Luther king Jr as he stood against discrimination. Discrimination separates people that need to work hand in hand with each other in order to make the world a better place to live in, as it creates bad blood amongst other people. Discrimination According to (Jackson and…

The 13th is a documentary by Ava DuVernay, who provides a realistic representation of our current criminal justice system and the people in it. The documentary follows the chronological progression of events that lead to our current criminal justice system, starting from the beginning of the twentieth century and ending in modern times. Representatives from both sides of the issues presented were brought forth and their stories were told, even Newt Gingrich had progressive things to say about…

QUESTION NUMBER 1: The civil rights movement of 1960’s was a set of movements in the United States to end racial discrimination against the black Americans and to get them a legal recognition. The movement also attempted to gain federal protection of the rights of citizenship as explained in the constitution. In the late 19th century, black Americans were stripped of their rights by numerous discriminatory laws in the South. Unlawful violence became a normal scenario for the blacks of South.…

especially Hispanic and African American people, relatively lack access to homeownership in the United States, as shown by the rates of homeownership over time (U.S. Census Bureau, updated constantly). This disparity in large part traces its roots to redlining, a government-sanctioned pattern of racially discriminatory mortgage- and other- lending practices that largely segregated people of color into neighborhoods that failed to accrue as much wealth for the residents over generations. As the…