Racial Discrimination Essay

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Please reflect on and answer the following questions through a written essay response of approximately two pages, double-spaced and 12 point font Times New Roman.

  • Paragraph 1: Inequality in Racial Institutions
    • Describe the two components of racial discrimination and its three levels of analysis
    • Provide an example of racial discrimination and state what component and which level it fits into
  • Paragraph 2: Inequality in the Criminal Legal System
    • Explain how the colorblind criminal legal system generates racially discriminatory results.
    • Describe the differences between Michelle Alexander and John Clegg in their explanation for and solution to mass incarceration.
    • Provide one example of how racial inequalities in the criminal legal system affects racial inequalities in other institutions
  • Paragraph 2: Inequality in Work
    • Explain the historical relationship between the Black Civil Rights Movement and anti-poverty campaigns
    • Assess the challenges to building inter-racial solidarity in union organizing. Provide one example from the movie Killing Floor (1984).
  • Paragraph 3: Inequality in Health and Medicine
    • Explain how racism is a fundamental cause of racial health inequalities
    • Name at least four types of flexible resources that shape people’s health
    • Apply fundamental cause theory to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. What are explanations of racial disparities and solutions to them that according to fundamental cause theory?

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Racial Discrimination

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Introduction
Racial discrimination happens whenever any member of society is treated
unfairly, considered unacceptable, or denied the same advantages as everyone else
with similar qualifications due to their race, birth country, skin color, or ethnic
background (Mejia, 2018). Racial discrimination is one of the major reasons behind
societal problems such as poverty, health disparities, incarceration of minorities, and a
biased criminal justice system—the following essay analyses racial discrimination, its
effects and solutions to alleviate it.
Differential treatment based on race affects a particular race, and treatment
founded on insufficiently justified criteria apart from race that harms a particular race
are the two components of racial discrimination. One of the components of racial
discrimination is whenever a person from one racial background is considered
unacceptable, an equally qualified member of some other racial background suffers
unpleasant or bad ramifications (Kovera, 2019). The second type of race
discrimination is when treatment is founded on an insuf...


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