School Segregation Essay

In America our media contributes to the perpetuation of certain stereotypes and prejudice to our viewers from television, newspapers, and etc. The media has a certain way to portray certain labels and preconceptions of people that are from different ethnicities in which we the people watch as entertainment. In certain schools a subject called ethnics studies provides students to understand different cultures, gender, sexuality, class, race, disability and national status based on them, their roots and history on how we confront society. Based on our history on ethnic studies, schools used to deal with segregation and yet it still continues at this present time. School segregation deals with unfair treatment, separation of students based on

According to the article “Talking Trash” by Bell Hooks, it discussed about how in society, we think or know how address certain things that we talk about on how or what we view among each other.

Public discourses about race and gender did create new ways of thinking and knowing. Talking about class and the various ways class differences separate groups has been much harder. Class standing and status tend frequently to link us more intimately to the dominant economic and its concomitant hierarchies. For example: it is much more likely that a white person will bond with a black person when the row shares a common class lifestyle. It is less likely that a materially prosperous person will establish a mutual bond with someone who is poor and indigent. (2)

This statement is a proof of how we the people are being represented on the media and in general based on how we believe or recognize each other among everything in the real world. From personal experiences some people deal with certain social injustices thanks to the media in which we struggle almost daily in life. For example, here in America the people that come from different ethnicities all have had issues with the law enforcement based on how the law enforcement think, know, or see what they are according what they had learn in general and the