In turn, it has caused a lowering of standards, which has had its greatest impact on minority students. Whether one adheres to Hirsch’s views or not, he drives at one of our nation’s greatest concerns: the inequity of achievement in education. We should move to embrace educators who make education relevant to students, while also maintaining high standards for them. He makes some valid points
This news story makes me realize a question: what determines blacks’ bad academic performance, like D'Souza says in the end of racism? D’Souza argues that cultural background is an unignorable factor, such as the hard working spirit imposed by Asian family. However, there is another approach to explain the question. If blacks can share the same opportunities
It clearly shows government intent to segregate society based on academic ability to which the assessments have been organised and written to allow for the high achievement of white students in comparison to black students. It is clear that there is distinct comparison to sociological structures in the US and the UK and both employ a form of racial segregation, the UK is an academic segregation affecting directly the opportunities that people have through out their lives. In the US people are segregated in prisons due to a self fulfilling prophecy to commit crimes encouraged by the living and social conditions of living in aghetto. Although the context is sometimes different the CRT research carried out in the US can be directly linked to events in the UK through the research that is being carried out by a new breed to critical race theorist who are applying the idea of racial dominance to all aspects to British
“Unnecessary Controversy” Unnecessary Controversy “Jims’ a nigger and wouldn’t understand it” (Twain 182). That’s what Huckleberry Finn says about Jim, a runaway slave that he is helping and as if black people are any less intelligent. The word “nigger” gives the story more meaning instead of what some people think offends the reader. Throughout the book, Huckleberry struggles with himself about whether he should be helping Jim or not and that struggle claws at the reader. Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, made a good choice to include controversial words in the book to show racial injustice and should be taught in schools.
This could cause them to feel like they are being told that they need extra help because of the color of their skin or what race they are. Even Mrs. Johnson finds that it is wrong and offensive to give scholarships purely based on race and she is African American. “A university should feel confident that when they award a scholarship, they get their money’s worth. The best way to decide this is by awarding students who have demonstrated their abilities inside and outside the classroom and their commitment to education. By taking out a factor such as race in determining scholarships, they’d be more fairly awarded.”
The school also examined a host of subjective factors in making its admissions decisions, including the race and ethnicity of the candidates. "Underrepresented" racial and ethnic minority applicants (i.e., African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans) were looked upon favorably because they helped achieve the school's mission of student diversity. Evidence suggested that without the school's affirmative action policy, an underrepresented minority’s average chance of admission would decrease from 35 percent to 10 percent. Barbara Grutter, a white Michigan resident whose application was rejected, sued the school in a lower federal court alleging that its admissions policy was unconstitutional. Grutter alleged that the school made race a "predominate" factor in admissions decisions and that the school intentionally discriminated against whites, and that this violated the Fourteenth Amendment, which forbids states from denying "to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection
When DuBois addresses the problem of the color line I believe that what he is signifying is the clear racial divide between the black and white races. The color line that DuBois speaks of is the known segregation that exists between the two races. In speaking of the “problem of the 21st Century” being the color line it exemplifies the divide between minorities and the majority when as it relates to educational opportunities, choice of better jobs, economic status etc. I believe that in many respects the color line does still exist, though Affirmative Action, the Americans with Disabilities Act and other measures have helped to get minorities in the door, with faulty educational structures and socioeconomic conditions that often fall within the poverty line it still causes difficulty for some minorities to break through the color division that exists. I believe however the color line of today has expanded past that of just race, as we so often see a separation between male and female, sexual orientation, disabled verses bodied individuals etc.
Furthermore, the scholars arrived to the conclusion that “racial stereotypes produce a positive self-identity for white and even Asians but a negative one for blacks and Latinos, alongside racialized self-perceptions among Mexican American students” (Portes & Rivas, 2011: 14). In attempting to explain the reasoning behind these issues of self-identity and perception the researchers somewhat analyze the influence of mainstream media. And lastly Portes and Rivas recognize the existence of major differences in the social and cultural adaptation of two groups: immigrant children versus children of immigrant parents. This last piece is crucial to my findings, for my observations too reveal a distinction in racial awareness between children that recently migrated into the United States and those that were born in and have thus far been raised in the U.S. Lastly, the piece hints at the idea that confusion arises as these children are struggling to adapt to a new culture; meanwhile, attempting to keep their home country’s language, values and customs— but it lacks
However, he also said that if the Black Americans who supported his cause divided themselves so much from what the rest of America believed in, then civil war would have been likely to . This shows that for a society to be egalitarian, one most also give up so of their native idiosyncrasies; the majority of Black Americans are now considered to an important part of the US, as shown by the election of Barack Obama, who was educated at Columbia & Harvard, both established higher educational Instititutes within the US. The Scandinavians around the Mid-West, South-Asians in the UK and the Civil Rights Movement show that a gradual rate of osmosis into one's society is an integral part of maintaining a respectful attitude of one's self. As people say, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". Assimilation is an important role one must undergo if they want to be considered an important part of their
Their concepts of diversity have been formed based on stereotypes and prejudices that have morphed into inaccurate thoughts and views, but I know that way of think can be shallow and empty. For my college experience, I was to interact with people who look and think like me, and who don’t look and think I like me, which will explained my intellectual horizon and add meaning to my college years. In the last year several major changes have taking place in America, the First African-American President Barack H. Obama was elected and Sonia Sotomayor was appointed as First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice and both of these great accomplishments are examples of diversity at its finest. Therefore, attending college near the Capital of the United States with all its diversity, will help me gain and understanding of such diverse first