Segregation in College
acial segregation in the United States is associated with segregation or hypersegregation of services, facilities as well as basic provisions like education, medical care, housing, transportation and employment along racial lines. It is used in referring to socially and legally enforced separation of considerations and services offered to a give community on the basis of their race or skin color. The term racial segregation, in as much as it had and still has a wider implication than just the partial treatment of the African-Americans, it was and still is used widely in reference to this group of people.

Within campuses of most urban high schools, Latino and African-American students tend to sit in poorly resourced and overcrowded classrooms. Their teachers are not as qualified as those from predominantly white communities and hardly get basic essentials such as textbooks. Even though the Supreme Court of the United State gave a…...

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References

Anyon, J., (1997). Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform. New York: Teachers College Press.

Bell, D., (2004). Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform.

New York: Oxford University Press.

Darling-Hammond, L. (1998). Unequal opportunity: Race and Education. The Brookings Review, 16(2), Pp28-32.

Racial Seg/WWII
The contributions of black Americans during World War II is indisputable. They served in the military and on the home front in civilian jobs that directly aided the war effort. Pictures from the National Archives show men and women in uniform and at work at their duties. At the time, these men and women got little recognition. Their stories appeared in the black press, but the majority of Americans -- who were white -- knew little and cared less. Racial tensions in the U.S. still ran high at the outbreak of World War II and American society was largely segregated. As social consciousness has gradually been raised, many Americans are hearing for the first time about the contributions of blacks. Actions have been taken to recognize individuals and compensate for the terrible negligence of war-era media to make the efforts and heroism of African-Americans more widely understood and appreciated.

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1. Black, Helen K., and Thompson, William H. "A War Within a War: A World War II Buffalo Soldier's Story." Journal of Men's Studies 20, no. 1 (Jan. 2012): 32-46. Accessed Apr. 19, 2014.  http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/jms.2001.32 .

2. Chappell, Kevin. "Blacks in World War II." Ebony 50, no. 11 (Sep. 1995): 58-64. Accessed Apr. 17, 2014. MasterFILE.

3. Elliot, Ray. "Two Wars to Win." Accessed Apr. 19, 2014.  http://www.americancenturies.mass.edu/centapp/oh/story.do?shortName=elliot1939vv 

4. Engelhardt, Brian C. "Fighting for the Double V: Memories of Six African-American Veterans of World War II." Berks History Center. Accessed Apr. 22, 2014.  http://www.berkshistory.org/articles/doublev.html

acial Segregation and Testing
As Dingfelder (2004) notes, it is difficult to enforce desegregation when there are so many ways to keep groups separated, as show in the history of Shaker Heights. Indeed, as Waugh (1939) observes, groups tend to segregate themselves in every culture and society. But how does this relate to the Peckham Decision, which states that California school psychologists may no longer use intelligence testing on African-American children in order to determine whether that child has special educational needs? It relates because in the struggle to enforce equality, there is the tendency to be overprotective and overemphasize points that may appeared "biased" but in actuality are merely attempting to be helpful. In the case of Peckham, for instance, the decision to ban testing in this case can be seen as both helpful and harmful for African-American students with special needs: yet the issue will likely be so politicized…...

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Dingfelder, S. (2004). Psychologist claims academic placement perpetuates racial segregation. Mointor on Psychology, 35(8), 62.

Waugh, E. (1939). Robbery Under Law. UK: Little, Brown.

In 20 of them, nonwhite enrollment is 90% or more." (Shaw, 1)
This is a condition which begs a question concerning the efforts of public representatives and government agencies in terms of improving the circumstances of the African-American community. In Chapter 7, Massey and Denton make an argument which underscores this question, indicating that African-American political representatives may often be at least somewhat to blame for sustaining the isolation experienced by the demographic. Namely, Massey and Denton contend that such public representatives will actually tend to exploit the benefits to electability and political mandate by maintaining pockets of African-American support. The geographical isolation of African-Americans will tend to make them a solid voting block which, while not stimulating greater power for the population itself, will help to elevate the career of individual public officials. In the text's perception, this is a cynical and self-interested tendency that helps to sustain tendencies…...

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Massey, D.S. & Denton, N.A. (1993). American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Harvard University Press.

Shaw, L. (2008). The resegregation of Seattle's school. The Seattle Times.

Analogy of Racial Segregation
The consequences of past events can teach us lessons, shaping the way we think today. For instance, racial segregation, which was established by the Jim Crow laws of the Civil War period and ended in the 1960s with the Civil Rights Act, saw the public separation of blacks and whites. Lessons were learned in that the unethical condition of segregation was recognized, but nearly a century in waiting. Thus, the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth century, along with the reversal of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, were reexamined for their constitutionality, and the Civil Rights Act of 1965 ended the institution of racial segregation. Two cases to directly compare are Plessy v. Ferguson, which established the legal mode of "separate but equal," and rown v. oard of Education that ended racial segregation. The historical analogy of these two events demonstrates that history helps…...

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The Civil Rights Movement. (1997). Retrieved March 22, 2004, from Cable News Network Inc.

Website:  http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html 

Davis, RLF. Creating Jim Crow: An In-Depth Essay. Retrieved March 22, 2004, from The History of Jim Crow Website: http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/creating2.htm

ace in Sociology
The sociology of racism, according to Clair and Denis (2015) is the study concerning racial inequality, racial discrimination, and racism and the associated features. acism basically is the domination of another race based on the percept and preconception that the dominating race is superior culturally or biologically. This thinking of superiority is used to justify the ill treatment of people from other races. acialization has led to people being divided into various groups based on physical appearances such as color of the skin, shape of the eye or hair and languages spoken, among others. These groups are then called races. acial discrimination involves unequal treatment meted to these groups and manifests itself prominently in such areas as education, income, and health.

ace is a construct of the society. It has no biological bearing, as there are no behavioral differences in humans that can be attributed to differences because of…...

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Clair, M., & Denis, J. S. (2015). Sociology of Racism. Retrieved September 8, 2016, from Scholars at Harvard:  https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/matthewclair/files/sociology_of_racism_clairandenis_2015.pdf 

Crossman, A. (2016). Sociology Of Race And Ethnicity. Retrieved September 8, 2016, from About Education:  http://sociology.about.com/od/Disciplines/a/Sociology-Of-Race-Ethnicity.htm 

Delinder, J. V. (2004, January). Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka: A Landmark Case Unresolved Fifty Years Later. Prologue Magazine, Vol 36. Retrieved from The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration:  http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/spring/brown-v-board-1.html 

Library of Virginia. (2003). What Was Brown v. Board of Education? Retrieved September 8, 2016, from Library of Virginia:  http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/brown/whatwas.htm

.. And place these students disproportionately in low track, remedial programs."
This does not end here; those that belong to a race that makes up a small minority of the total strength of an education are easy targets for open mockery and detraction. Even though, this is a rare happening but when it does happen, it leaves a lifelong effect on the mind of the individual.

However, the educational system is not ignorant of these happenings, and many institutions, or certain teachers in an institution are trying to little by little wipe away a few differences through the wings of similar educational potentials and abilities. I have thrived myself because of this particular adopted environment.

When teachers or educational committees tend to point out the similarities between students of two different races on levels of intellect, ability or intuition, it is then that the barriers of racial discrimination are lifted a little. ut…...

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Jeannie Oakes, Amy Stuart Wells, Susan Yonezawa and Karen Ray. Change Agentry and the Quest for equity: Lessons from detracking schools

Racial dynamics and change in educational organization

acial Democracy
Struggles for racial democracy in Sunflower County in the 1980 substantially differed in many aspects from freedom struggles that were there in the 1950's and 1960's. Civil rights movements in the 1980 were not a monolithic entity. Tensions that were witnessed at the national level were not prominent at the local level. The civil rights movements' activities in the sunflower county illuminated problems unique to one area. Sunflower County was inhabited by isolated, dependent, unskilled, unneeded, and unwanted people a clear indication that the black freedom movement involved issues of class as well as those of race. Struggle for racial democracy in the Sunflower County in 1980 was the struggle to liberate the less privileged that made up about 70% of Sunflower County (Moye, 2004).

Unlike the 1960's Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), that targeted Sunflower County as a civil rights activism because of Eastland's political prominence, the struggle for…...

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Moye, J.D. (2004). Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1985. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina

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Oates, S.B. (1994). Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper

Perennial.

... Poor Catholic poor-white crazy woman, said the black folks' mouths" (8). But throughout the novel, it is factual treatment of race that dominates any emotional construction of race.
The central problem of identity in Cane is grounded in lack of acceptance of what has universally existed i.e. polarities. In the 1920s, writers like Toomer embraced a new kind of racial identity i.e. repudiation of race itself that emerged from accepting that world has always harbored differences and divergent viewpoints and thus different racial identities was also a norm and not something to be seen as a source of conflict.

Toomer sets the particular problem in the black world, but he sees it as the true artist does, whatever his race. The problem is the eternal one man must confront: the mind is the source of insight and of any art in life, but the mind also destroys the blood and passions…...

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James Kraft "Jean Toomer's Cane"; Therman B. O'Daniel: Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation. College Language Association (U.S.) Howard University: Washington, DC. 1988

William Stanley Braithwaite, "The Negro in American Literature," in the New Negro, ed. Alain Locke (New York: Atheneum, 1969), 44.

Sherwood Anderson to Jean Toomer, 22. December 1922, reprinted in Jean Toomer, Cane, ed. Darwin Turner (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), 160.

Jean Toomer to James Weldon Johnson, 11 July 1930, reprinted in a Jean Toomer Reader: Selected Unpublished Writings, ed. Frederik L. Rusch (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 106.

Change must be imminent yet it is hard to know where it will come from as racial and economic inequity that leads to and sustains segregated housing remains multifaceted, with no universal answer that will touch on all issues. The program must be comprehensive and yet it cannot exclude grass roots efforts to improve the situation, either in racially segregated areas or within the whole community of the United States. Probably the most important message of any research at this juncture would be to responsibly inform the majority in a way that will hit home the reality of the continuation of racial segregation in housing and discrimination in general, as the end of the civil rights era is not even in sight even though many think it passed before they were born.

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Bickford, Adam, and Douglas S. Massey. "Segregation in the Second Ghetto: Racial and Ethnic Segregation in American Public…...

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Of course, a separation of the races meant really the preservation of white superiority at the expense of those formerly enslaved. The law mandated distinct facilities for hites and Blacks. Everything from schools, to transportation, movie theaters, hotels, and even public restrooms were carefully segregated. Few Black only facilities approached white ones in quality or amount of money expended on their upkeep. Black public schools were notoriously inferior as were hospitals and other essential services. As arguments about the disparities became more apparent toward the mid-Twentieth Century, the South sought to defend its segregationist policies by - in the case of medical schools - expanding and consolidating its physician training facilities so as to avoid providing more facilities for Blacks. A plan was actually floated, not to increase Black enrollment at the South's twenty-six medical colleges, but rather to consolidate all training of Black medical personnel at a single…...

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ound 2 Draft evision - Pilot Study: Influences of Geographical Location on Academic and Life Outcomes of Young Black Males in ChicagoAbstractThis draft focuses on how the geographical location within Chicago influences academic and life outcomes for young Black males. The pilot study is informed by initial findings that suggest significant disparities based on locationNorth, South, and West sides of Chicago. This research integrates qualitative data from school principals and local educational administrators, aiming to explore systemic factors that contribute to these disparities.IntroductionHistorical Context and Systemic IssuesHistorical ContextChicago has long been recognized as one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States. This segregation is not a relic of the past but continues to profoundly shape the socio-economic and educational landscapes of the city. The historical roots of this segregation can be traced back to discriminatory practices such as redlining, restrictive covenants, and urban renewal policies that systematically…...

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Racial segregation remains one of the most fundamentally perplexing questions within the body of American history. Many people erroneously believe that the racial and social structures that existed prior to the close of the civil war in 1865 resulted in both fundamental and rapid changes for those who had been subjugated by slavery, immigration and even war. The truth is far more complicated and changes were much more gradual. The reality of segregation was both social, legal and economic and to some degree still exists today, in a de jure manner. "Although de jure segregation in the United States is most commonly associated with the South, segregation could be found at one time or another in every section of the country." (Finkelman, 2003) ("South, The " Columbia Encyclopedia, 2000) Though the fundamental struggle of the civil rights movements has largely forced the eradication of de facto, or legal segregation de…...

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Allport, Gordon. "The Nature of Prejudice." Race, Racism and American Law. Ed.

Derek Bell. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1973. 84-87.

Gordon Allport is a leading social scientist discussing the foundations of race and prejudice as it effect the United States. His work, "The Nature of Prejudice," is recognized as one of the most influential analysis of the reasons for the perpetuation of racial prejudice.

Bell, Derek ed. Race, Racism and American Law. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1973.

The increased collaboration and mutual awareness of both mainstream and minority projects -- and the vanishing of the differentiation between the two spheres -- could only lead to better and more relevant arts projects (Moscou 2010). I hope to be able to facilitate increased integration of the performing arts community to this end.
Some major concepts that relate to the issue of race include identity, self-confidence and self-image, and a host of sociological and economic factors. The economic disparity between the various racially segregated neighborhoods in the greater Seattle area is readily apparent on a drive through such neighborhoods -- the "non-white" neighborhoods have older buildings in greater states of disrepair, a larger number of boarded-up and defunct storefronts, and higher crime rates than the more affluent white neighborhoods of the city itself and in outlying areas (Cornwall 2004; SJI 2010). Greater integration would likely also result in greater economic…...

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Cornwall, W. (2004). "Racial issues raised over Democratic mailing." Seattle times. Accessed 3 August 2010.  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002070838_48thrace23e.html 

Moscou, J. (2010). Personal interview. Conducted 1 August 2010.

Race & social justice initiative. (2010). City of Seattle Official Website. Accessed 3 August 2010.

ace
acial division/separation on campus in environment

Students in the focus group described the campus environment at Landgrant University as being welcoming overall, but difficult to find meaningful connections with other students. Segregation is too harsh of a term to use in this case, but it is clear some of the students at the university feel that people stick with their own racial groups when making friends. This has created a trend in campus life that is hard to overcome. Therefore, there remains a racial division/separation on campus.

Stereotypes are mentioned as one of the most common causes of racial division on campus. One participant in the focus group claimed that white students claimed they thought she was "ghetto" and stereotyped her as a "loud" African-American female until they got to know her. This experience shows that stereotypes continue to color first impressions of people, preventing meaningful friendships from forming and enhancing the…...

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Fischer, M.J. (2007). Settling into campus life: differences by race/ethnicity in college involvement and outcomes. Journal of Higher Education, 78(2), 125-161.

Flower, L.A. (2004), Effects of living on campus on African-American students' educational gains in college, NASPA Journal, 41(2).

Title 1:

The Pernicious Legacy of "Separate but Equal": Plessy v. Ferguson and the Entrenchment of Racial Inequality

Title 2:

The Supreme Court's Abdication of Justice: Plessy v. Ferguson and the Enshrinement of Jim Crow

Title 3:

The Racial Divide Codified: The Enduring Impact of Plessy v. Ferguson on American Society

Title 4:

The Whitewashing of Inequality: Plessy v. Ferguson and the Legalization of Racial Segregation

Title 5:

Separate but Not Equal: The Hypocrisy of Plessy v. Ferguson and its Devastating Consequences

Title 6:

The Sordid Tale of Plessy v. Ferguson: How the Supreme Court Betrayed the Constitution and Uphold Racial Apartheid

Title 7:

The Injustice....

Title: Ida B. Wells - A Crusader for Justice

Introduction:
- Briefly introduce Ida B. Wells as an influential African-American journalist, suffragist, and civil rights activist.
- State the thesis statement: Ida B. Wells dedicated her life to fighting against racial injustice and gender discrimination, leaving a lasting impact on the path towards equality.

Body:

I. Early Life and Education:
A. Provide a brief overview of Ida B. Wells' childhood and family background.
B. Discuss the impact of the Civil War and the Reconstruction era on her upbringing.
C. Describe her educational journey and the obstacles she....

1. The Evolution of Urbanism in America: From Colonial Settlements to Modern Metropolises

2. The Impact of Industrialization on Urbanism in America: From Rural to Urban Centers

3. Redefining the American Dream: Urbanism and Suburbanization in the United States

4. Urban Planning and Gentrification: Balancing Economic Growth and Social Equity in American Cities

5. The Role of Transportation in Shaping Urbanism in America: From Streetcars to Highways

6. Racial Segregation and the Legacy of Urbanism in America: A Critical Analysis

7. Urbanism and Sustainability: Promoting Green Cities in the United States

8. The Evolution of Public Spaces in American Cities: Parks, Plazas, and Pedestrian-Friendly Design

9. Urbanism and....

Certainly! Here are a few potential essay topics related to racism that you could consider:

1. The historical roots of racism and its ongoing impact on society.
2. The role of privilege in perpetuating racism.
3. The effects of systemic racism on marginalized communities.
4. The intersectionality of racism with other forms of discrimination.
5. The portrayal of race and racism in media and popular culture.
6. The impact of racial stereotypes and bias on individuals and communities.
7. Strategies for combatting racism and promoting racial equity.
8. The relationship between racism and economic inequality.
9. The long-term implications of racial segregation and discrimination.
10. The importance of allyship and....