Racism In African American Education

In the United States’ current political climate, “racism” is a term thrown around so often that it almost begins to lose its original definition. The same can be said when discussing and analyzing the success rate of minority students in higher education. People are inclined to jump to the conclusion that a faculty member or institution is inherently racist instead of looking at all of the factors involved in a student’s success. The three main factors that I will be covering over the course of this essay are school tuition rates, Affirmative Action policies, and how schools handle discipline. While there are cases of inarguable racism within higher education, an in-depth analysis of the factors stated above will prove that “racism” is not

The deep rooted racism that effects African American students today. I know in 2017 that sentence sounds crazy. How do African American’s still experience racism, especially in schools, segregation is against the law? African Americans have the same access to the same types of education as anyone else. While at face value both statements are true, with a more in depth look they are false.

The first African American woman to receive their doctoral degree in psychology is Inez Beverly Prosser. Prosser first began teaching in Texas segregated school systems. She graduated in 1993 from the University of Cincinnati with her PhD in educational psychology and she is well known for her dissertation, "The Non-Academic Development of Negro Children in Mixed and Segregated Schools.” In her dissertation she found African American students significantly benefited from segregated schools compared to an integrated schools. This is because they received more affection and support versus an integrated school where they had problems adjusting academically, socially and even in accepting their own identity.

But of course, it is not all of the teacher’s fault it can outside factors such as the economy or that the students themselves cannot handle such demanding classes. Even if that was the case I believe that there are many ways to decrease the effects racism has on schools such as teaching kids, teachers, and parents not to be colorblind. Being colorblind is like fighting fire with fire it does not solve the issue with racism teach students especially that there are many races and ethnicities, but that does not mean one race above another race I mean really we all bleed red anyway. While this seems the easiest people mess it up so quickly do not become a part of the problem, plus another way to help in the fight against racism is to take time

Education in the South was unfair, because the whites had better schools and the African Americans weren 't given the same amount knowledge as the whites. The North had three more years of education than the South. The education of African American children during slavery was rare and uncertain in Texas as in other Southern states. Education in the North was much better than in the South. In the North there were many oppertunites for Afican Americans to get an education.

African American education is important because it is by having education that African Americans can become well prepared for college, attend college, earn the same salaries as Caucasians and become successful in life. For many years, schools in America were segregated. In African American schools, most African American students did not have all of the laboratories, facilities, and quality of teaching that Caucasian students had. Five reasons why education is important to African Americans include money, equality, turning dreams into reality, economy and society (Levine). 1.

It is very true that African Americans have made many strides in the past few decades in relation to equality and freedom. However, racism and segregation are still present to this day. Many African Americans are killed and mistreated simply because of the pigment in their skin. The only difference is, many people are still oblivious to this fact more than they were years ago. This blindness comes from the idea that America has overcome these racial conditions.

Wait you're saying there are still is racial inequality in schools! ( according to the article Worsening unchecked segregation in k-12 schools)Yes it's true there still is and it's not just happening in 1 school but many. And it's not fair they don't get the same amount of materials and resources as the white kids do.

Racial segregation has always been, and continues to be, a significant issue in the field of education. The 1954 ruling in the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education forever altered the legal structure of schools. Intentional separation of ethnicities was no longer an acceptable norm within the system of public education. Affirmative action was one proposal that ensured an equal balancing of race among school and work settings. Recently, however, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of state bans on affirmative action.

thesis: 1) proper education can inspire a positive attitude to racism 2) education helps racial students to move from intolerance to acceptance and understanding of cultural difference 3) education provides cognitive skills, which increases people’s captivity people’s capacity to detect prejudice and to reject it. Is Education the Best Inversion Against Racism? The ex Prime minister of Britain Tony Blair has always insisted the importance of education in preventing racism. According to Tony Blair some people are born to be bad, you can’t stop people from being bad (Blair, T. Education backs Lessons Against racism 1999.) proper education can help get rid of prejudice and changes in the national curriculum of the British educative system whereby

The Effects of Racism against African Americans Rosa Parks once stated, “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.” Although Parks stated this in 2005, her ideas correspond with American society today. For instance, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and Eric Harris are only a few of the victims who have faced extreme racism. After being stopped for minor violations, and although all were unarmed, the police shot them in the back without proper reasoning.

Booker T. Washington was an African-American civil rights activist that established Tuskegee University. Booker T. Washington was born a slave and at the age of nine he was freed, thanks to the emancipation that was passed. Washington always wanted to have a good education and eventually be economically successful because most African-Americans didn’t have those privileges. As a result of this Washington worked very hard as a janitor and a teacher of an elementary school to gain his wealth, so he could eventually lead a university. In America, at the time when Washington was “building” his university, former slaves couldn’t get successful because white people didn’t want African-Americans to be better than them and/or that white people were more wealthy from birth; therefore, they were more qualified for a certain job.

The three most prevalent races that comprise the population of my school are White, African American, and Hispanic. Whites are the predominant demographic occupying about 85% of the population, followed by African American at 13% and Hispanic at 2%. This ratio has been relatively stable for the last forty years, with a slight increase recently in the Hispanic populace. Throughout the course of our lives, we are often exposed to stereotypes that help form our opinions. In many instances these beliefs are not based on reality, but on information that has been passed down for generations.

In collegiate education, American History has always, has been told from the white person’s point of view. It has also failed to recognize the contributions of African American culture that has helped create America. Overtime many thought this would change, but in reality majority of African-Americans know more about “American” history than African-American history. Because of the lack of knowledge that both black people and non-black people have about African-American history, they tend to have closed off mindsets about how the topic relates to educations. According to Aristotle, “ It’s the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”