Compare Eviction And The Reproduction Of Urban Poverty By Wendy Wang

Race and Ethnicity

Our views of race and ethnicities are constantly evolving. First, I will discuss how it has changed over the last sixty to seventy years in relations to intermarriage. Secondly, problems that have persisted over the same period of time, such as incarceration and housing evictions. Lastly, I mention the problems in post-Civil Rights America and why they have arisen, such as housing segregation, employment, and education. I will use six academic articles to answer these three questions.

Race and ethnic relationships have changed over the last sixty to seventy years. People have become open with the idea of dating and marrying others from different races and ethnicities. According to “The Rise of Intermarriage” by Wendy Wang,

African Americans have always been discriminated against in the housing market. The study was conducted in Milwaukee to see how many residents would be evicted. African American women had a greater chance to be evicted in comparison to males (Desmond, 2012). Not all evictions were taken to the court system. For instance, some of the landlords were paying the renters to leave quietly. The experimenter would keep records of the conversations between consumers and landlords. African Americans had the greatest rate of evictions, followed by Hispanics, and then whites (Desmond, 2012). It was significantly found that females made up 60.6% of those who were evicted (Desmond, 2012). In minority neighborhoods this finding was noteworthy than white communities. The African American mothers who had children had to pay nearly their whole paycheck to be able to afford a place to live. Black women have always had a more problematic time because some people accuse them as being lazy or having to many

The article I will refer from is “From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action and Back Again: A Critical Race Discussion of Racialized Rationales and Access to Higher Education” by Tara Yosso. Affirmative action in education was set up because it would give minority groups access to higher-education. However, this article discusses that minorities still have a problematic time getting into higher education schools. This was an issue in Brown vs. Board of Education, which stated education should be equivalent to everyone (Yosso, 2004). Not everyone agreed with this idea. Whites concluded that this was an act of racism, explaining this is why they were denied to the school they applied to (Yosso, 2004). Whites feel that this a form of racism because they do not understand the historical account of that African Americans once were denied the right to attend the same schools as whites. This problem has arisen because minorities were denied access to schools because of their race this was a way to have more diversity and give minorities the same opportunities as whites. Giving African Americans a fair chance in enrolment in college will give the school more diversity. They are giving opportunities and extra support from African American support systems which are provided in higher education to help minorities