Group Synthesis Essay

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Upon completion a research that was done on my group as Black / African American, it was determine that we were immigrated to the United States for employment purposes. The receptionist that was given to us a immigrants in the country was not always friendly. We had always felt uneasy where ever we go and had been set aside because of our skin color. There were law restrictions against us, open bloodshed and almost 1/3 of immigrants and their children had to return to their home because of the uneasy feeling towards strangers. Coming from a black group we had faced a combination of segregation, racism and prejudice. There were the separation between us as black and the whites in our residential areas we were not allowed to live in the same…show more content…
Successful African American homebuyers find that they receive less for their homes. Controlling for a variety of factors except race of neighborhood, Black homeowners received 18 percent less value for their homes than White homeowners. The Brookings Institution has called this “the segregation tax,” the price Blacks pay for living in all-Black neighborhoods. The concept of redlining is now being applied to areas other than home buying. People living in predominantly minority neighborhoods have found that service deliverers refuse to go to their area. In one case that attracted national attention, in 1997, Kansas City’s Pizza Hut refused to deliver 40 pizzas to an honor program at a high school in an all-Black neighborhood. A Pizza Hut spokesperson called the neighborhood unsafe and said that almost every city has “restricted areas” to which the company will not deliver. This admission was particularly embarrassing because the high school already had a $170,000-a-year contract with Pizza Hut to deliver pizzas as a part of their school lunch program. According to the dual labor market model, minorities have been relegated to the informal economy. Although the informal economy may offer employment to the jobless, it provides few safeguards against fraud or malpractice that victimizes the workers. There are also few of the fringe benefits of health insurance and pensions that are much more likely to be present
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