Essays on Segregation

The United States is a country full of immigrants. There is a lot of history in the 239 years that the United States has existed as such. Something I recently discovered was that out of the 239 years, we as a country have been at...

Every child is unique in their own way and teaching a child race issues requires maximum caution. Some children are shy about talking openly about what is going on in their school, even when bullied. Some also confide in other people rather than their parents....

Since the 1960s the feminist movement has gained a lot of momentum and political power. It has led us to the point of ‘gender equality’ being one of the most important political and sociological goals for modern societies. A poll recently held by Pew Research...

According to research, the act of separating boys and girls, for educational purposes, is beneficial for the students and their advancement academically. Segregation in schools is beneficial for both genders for in these learning spaces, the genders take on leadership and social roles they wouldn’t...

“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group,” this is one of Peggy McIntosh famous quotes in this article. There the main point of view that McIntosh talks about in her is...

Since the early 1900s, zoning in some way has shaped many metropolitan areas in the United States. Zoning defines how a jurisdiction plans to use each parcel of land, with this there are positive and negative impacts. In Chicago, we see issues with segregation which...

The mysterious murders of young black men such as the teenager Michael Brown, Tanisha Anderson, and Eric Garner and among others have triggered an upsurge of demonstrations that have cultured into the local Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM). The issue has been on the headlines...

In the 21st century people everywhere are looking for equality in all its forms; people all around the globe express their feelings about equality on social media and it just spreads like wildfire in mere hours. The most protested belief is racism. Racism is “the...

From the study, I collected qualitative and quantitative data and I came up with a biracial socialization spectrum where I divided everything into three groups. One group is the Black parent spectrum, another group is the white parent spectrum, and the third side is the...

Throughout most, if not all, of American history, African Americans have experienced struggles due to the color of their skin. From enslavement, to segregation, to persecution, America was built on the backs of black people. Even though most would assume the conflict of racism ended...