Racial Society

Racial Diversity in Society

Lauren Kidd

ETH/125

August 18, 2015

Tabitha Barrett

Racial Diversity in Society

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Associate Program Material

Racial Diversity in Society Worksheet

Part I

Complete the following using the MySocLab Social Explorer Map: Income Inequality by Race (located on the student website) as a reference:

* Select 1 racial group from the list below:

* African American

* Asian American

* Arab American

* Hispanic American/Latino

* White/Caucasian

* Write a 150- to 300-word summary of the economic, social, and political standings of that group. Use additional resources if necessary, from the University Library or your textbooks. Provide citations for all the sources you use.

* African Americans can be like any other race group and have a bad economic, social and political standing. However African Americans had a higher job loss along with lower income. African Americans are having issues finding jobs. Reidenbach (2015), “African Americans and Hispanics had higher unemployment, lower household income and wages, and higher poverty rates” (para.1). The social standings of African Americans is quite surprising. African American’s see themselves as middle class. Which I can see because there are a lot of rich African Americans but I fear there is more poor. I feel there is more lower class African Americans because of their economical stage and lack of available jobs. Even though our president of the United States is black, African American’s have lost confidence in their own race for political leaders. According to "Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor And Middle Class" (2015), “Over the past two decades, blacks have lost some confidence in the effectiveness of leaders within their community, including national black political figures, the clergy, and the NAACP. A sizable majority of blacks still see all of these groups as either very or...