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Running head: RACE RELATIONS 1

Elizabeth and Hazel story

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RACE RELATIONS 2

Introduction

With the conditions of a given category or race of people being attributed a status that is not at

the same level as individuals from another category or race resulting to racial inequality, the

issue has been evident for more than a century but in this generation structural inequality has a

new phase with the relationship being perpetuated and at the same time reinforced by the

influence of unequal relations in terms of the roles, decisions, rights, functions and opportunities.

These inequalities specifically target the systems rooted to the dominance of one category of

individuals basically considered as superior or inferior leading to division in terms of residential

segregation, employment opportunities, educational discrimination or healthcare (Massey,

Douglas S, 2004)

How the Elizabeth and Hazel story is emblematic to contemporary race relations

Educational discrimination was the cover of the story as Elizabeth Eckford was among the nine

black students who had enlisted to enter the Little Rock Central High School in the fall of the

year 1957, there is no doubt that in this era racism was an agenda of great intensity as blacks

were separated from the whites and the photo of students including Hazel and adults shouting at

Elizabeth not wanting her to study in the same school as she did was not a new scene. The white

students would stand and watch as Elizabeth walk down the park of the school and there were

guards with riffles pointing the direction she should go which was the far side of the park

(Margolick, D, 2011).

Being shouted at by students and adults with no support from the guards available at a point she

was even spate on by an old woman clearly the school did not want to integrate which was a

similar scenario even in the society around where adults did not want any relations with the

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Running head: RACE RELATIONS 1 Elizabeth and Hazel story Student’s Name: Institutional Affiliation: 2 RACE RELATIONS Introduction With the conditions of a given category or race of people being attributed a status that is not at the same level as individuals from another category or race resulting to racial inequality, the issue has been evident for more than a century but in this generation structural inequality has a new phase with the relationship being perpetuated and at the same time reinforced by the influence of unequal relations in terms of the roles, decisions, rights, functions and opportunities. These inequalities specifically target the systems rooted to the dominance of one category of individuals basically considered as superior or inferior leading to division in terms of residential segregation, employment opportunities, educational discrimination or healthcare (Massey, Douglas S, 2004) How the Elizabeth and Hazel story is emblematic to contemporary race relations Educational discrimination was the cover of the story as Elizabeth Eckford was among the nine black students who had enlisted to enter the Little Rock Central High School in the fall of the year 195 ...
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