Wilson's Three Stages Of Race Relations In America

Summary: Wilson begins by stating that race relations have changed significantly in America over the years, and that the interactions between whites and blacks in the workforce have also changed. He then goes on to state that politics and social norms have changed so the past racially motivated barriers to black people are now class motivated barriers that have racial consequences. Essentially, the new way society works is creating a subordinate class that blacks are being put into. He does not say that racism has gone away, and does say that blacks are still kept out of positions of power, certain housing areas, and other jobs, but he does emphasize that class is becoming the larger issue because lower class blacks are falling behind and are

Stage one consisted of time of slavery and the early years after the Civil War. Stage two took place during the Industrial Revolution up until Roosevelt’s New Deal, when there was race conflict over

Class does affect how much education you can afford. However, there remains the fact that minorities are more likely to be poor, and the reason for this is the history of white supremacy in the United States. Historically, they were kept out of jobs and exploited for cheap labor, only to be replaced as soon as white workers had enough of it. The general public still judge people based upon their race, and still exclude people not like themselves. There are racial consequences to the new practices in the work field, but the consequences would not exist if the racial motivation had not been there in the first place. If minorities had not been stigmatized, killed, exploited, enslaved, and all other manner of things, then they would not be at so high of a risk of being in the lower class. America has not moved away from racism or racially motivated barriers, we have merely gotten better at hiding them. Now, when a black person does not have a job, we say “Oh well that’d because black people are lazy”, but we only started calling them lazy once they stopped working for free. Now, when a black man is killed for looking suspicious, we say “Well he had a history of being violent and he was a thug”, but when a white boy goes around and killed countless people, we say “He was lovely but he sadly suffered from mental issues.” Wilson does bring up a good point, but there is still plenty of racially motivated barriers in the United