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Summary Of They Get Over It By Matthew Hughey

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In Essay 3 They Should Get over it written by Matthew W. Hughey a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut argues that racial inequality, segregation and discrimination is still very present in today’s society, he acknowledges that race places an emphasizes in how many individuals are being treated thru, housing, education and the mass media. (p26) . Throughout his essay Hyghey uses several methods of argument for example, statistics, graphs, examples, and expert opinion to support his claim. Hyghery argues that housing segregation is on the decline, but there’s still some cities in the United States remain highly segregated. ( p.31) this decline is due to the Fair Housing Act of 1968 which protects individuals and families from …show more content…

He comments on how people of color are more likely to be victims of foreclosure; many companies offer loans at very high risks rates and typically target the minority group. Second argument that Hyghey makes is the inequality in Education that many African Americans receive in both private and public schools. Today the number of Latinos and Blacks earning a college degree has increased dramatically “between 2000 and 2010 forty-eight percent more blacks held at least a bachelor’s degree”(U.S) , unfortunately society has created many obstacles that has stopped the African American community to continue their education. The inequality that many of this students revived has prevented them from learning and integrated with white community “stark differences in the resources and quality of predominantly White and non-Whites school still exit”(p), students who graduated from a prestige school and come from a middle class family are more likely than other racial groups to go on to college . Other argument mention in the essay argues that dominate African American community is being effected thru the mass media, stereotyping in television, and movies against the black community has increased

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