Race, Gender and Social Equality
San Leandro City, California is a rich agricultural city, which has recently experienced unprecedented urbanization. With an estimated population of about thirty-eight million people as of July 2012, this figure is predicted to double by 2020. This paper focuses on racial, economic, social, and housing characteristics shaping the life chances of residents in this city.
How socioeconomic characteristics affect quality-of-life
According to the American Fact finder website, the poverty rate has increased by an average of fifty-five percent between 1981 and 1991. This percentage is much greater than the average growth rate of the U.S. city. As a result, San Leandro City, California can be significantly compared to the U.S. city. However, the city's per capita income bounced up in the 2000s. Perhaps, the greatest change and one that is the most critical indicator of progress in comparison to U.S. is the percentage change regarding the high number of school graduates. San Leandro City, California has been experiencing a significant rise in the population segment below the age of eighteen years. This partially explains the slow growth rate. It is remarkably worthy that the San Leandro city is again falling below the average of U.S. city. In addition, while San Leandro city boasts of a substantially increasing rate of high school graduation, in 1990s and 2000s, there was no such evidence. Some measures point towards positive change or a limit the problem rates relative to other cities. For instance, the average employment increase in San Leandro city is slightly higher than the rate in the U.S. Changes in violent crime rates like murder are more plausible than in other U.S.' cities.
Race and ethnicity
The city of San Leandro City is one of the major cities in California and has the greatest number of white residents relative to other cities. The average number of Whites (37,702) exceeds the average population of blacks (11,278), Asian (24,801) and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (1,097). While no growth was recorded compared to the U.S. white population...
SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND African-American How do major social institutions contribute to the creation and preservation of race, gender and social class status arrangements? The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of women of color for instance, the Native American, African-American, Mexican-American, and Asian-American) within the context of education, labor, or the family. Furthermore, the impact of stereotyping, the implicit bias and social racism influences the behavior aspects and patterns
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Race and Ethnic Inclusion and Exclusion In Ira Berlin's (1998) Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, the author shows how groups in the U.S. struggled to exclude other groups. White people made a serious effort to exclude black people from anything other than the most menial jobs for a very long time (Davidson, 2005; Gasorek, 1998). The desire to exclude was based on skin color
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