The Role Of Racism In America

Essay 1 Racism has been around for a long time. Sense the beginning, humans has radicalized people to feel superior to any others. Some might say that we have gotten away from radicalizing people after World War 2, but this is wrong. Radicalizing people can be seen in many ways, including the government, the Human Genome Project and education. The government has radicalized people for many years. It plays a big role in segregation and the construction of race. It is seen in the constitution and many laws. In the text Defining Race and Ethnicity in America it states “As mandated by the constitution, the first administrative definition of race used by the United States took note of African slaves and American Indians subject to taxation who

It also was one of the main points within the classroom. Stereotyping is defined as a fixed idea or image about a race or thing that is oversimplified. For many years, people have to ask themselves who they are, whether it is their culture, family, or even where they come from, their race has been put into a category, which they cannot escape. In the text Race and Ethnicity as a Source of belongingness, it states “ Our identities locate us in social spaces and tell us where we belong” (Doing Race 384), but sometimes it is forced upon people due to stereotyping other races. In the education system, there is a question where the stereotype can be seen in the education system. I big part in negative stereotyping is within education. There is a Stereotype that African Americans are not as intelligent as Whites. This was the drive for many segregated schools. African Americans have fought a long time to be equal to whites. One of these fights was the Brown vs. Bored case in 1954, where the court declared the segregation of White Schools and Black schools to be unconstitutional. After this court, case there was still a war on education, but there were school finance reforms as an effort to help this new law against segregation. In the text Understanding the Achievement Gap, it states “Gaps in school, in access to qualify teachers, and in access to higher education were smaller in the 1970s than they had been before” (Doing Race 298). This means that higher education for African Americans were very slim and there was more segregation within schools after the Brown vs. Bored