How Does Race Affect Social Status

Throughout human history, a person’s social status was determined by what their society perceived as acceptable or right. These statuses could determine how the rest of your life would be carried out. There are many factors that can lower where your social status is, or will start, such as: occupation and skill, income, education, family heritage, religion, gender, race, and location. The thought that in today’s world everyone can rise to their full potential equally is a false and naive one. Race still has an affect on your socio-economic status. Racism can take the form of people being intentionally racist or subconsciously racist, but both have effected us and our world. Discrimination has been the cornerstone of practices that force people

Graduation among minorities is around 50%-53%, while White and Asian/Pacific Islander is at 73%-76%. The percentage of graduates decreases when you break it up by gender. Minorities such as: Natives, Blacks, and Hispanics; Males have over 10% lower graduation rates than females in the same minority. While white and Asian males only drop by 7%-8%. This reinforces the idea that minorities aren’t always given the same chances. “Almost 9 of 10 intensely segregated minority schools also have concentrated poverty. These schools are characterized by a host of problems, including levels of competition from peers, less qualified and experienced teachers, narrower and less advanced course selection, more student turnover during the year, and students with many health and emotional problems related to poverty and to living in ghetto or barrio conditions. Few whites, including poor whites, ever experience such schools” (Orfield, Losen, Wald, Swanson page 7). These facts sated above correlate with the fact that lower socio-economic tend to put an education behind them while prioritizing safety and stability. Race of course doesn’t just affect high school educations it also plagues higher

The ‘tipping-point model’ is a migration theory is that the least tolerant people will leave when minority populations increase. This can leave an area’s local economy most venerable because whites generally have higher socio-economic statuses, which help pay for the upkeep of the towns. Some towns have fallen apart because of this, for example Cairo. The other is invasion-succession, which is close to ‘tipping point’. Succession is when blacks enter an area that is exclusively white then the white population will decrease and the black population will increase. This can affect where people will migrate