Racial_Inequality

Racial Inequality There have been breakthrough movements made in the effort to establish racial equality in the United States. Historically there have been protests and boycotts leading to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and affirmative action. The government has also gone further to reinforce the laws established in 1964 to amend this act in the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Classes in social diversity can now be found within the school system in order to broaden the minds and explain differences to the members of society. Though regardless of these attempts, racial inequality still exists in our society today. This inequality effects the education minorities receive, the wages they earn and even the neighborhoods in which minorities live. All of these factors, along with sociological analysis of racial inequality will be discussed in this paper. It has been over 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the segregation of public schools. Yet at this time, researchers claim that segregation in the U.S. public school system is on the rise. According to BBC News, “Between 1988 and 1998, the number of black pupils in majority white schools decreased from 43.5% to 32.7%.” BBC News racial, society, inequality, white, schools, discrimination, black, according, while, school, reports, been, time, through, theory, symbolic, steering, rights, remain, power, over, neighborhoods, minorities, lines, jobs, interactionists, interaction, housing, groups, group, consciousness, conflict, civil, between, believe