Racial Inequality In America

A new racial structure has emerged In the 1960s even though research found a reduction in racial inequality in America. Blunt racists make sure blacks remain in the subordinate position at the economic and social level. Research in the 1980s found blacks mostly worked in agricultural or service jobs. Blacks entered working class occupations after WWI. Blacks earned less income than whites because they usually worked low skill jobs nobody else wanted. Recent research found that an employment gap between blacks and whites during the 1970s and 1980s. Whites get seven more hours than whites and get more jobs when compared to blacks. Tests and high school diploma requirements screen some blacks out from high level jobs. Education attainment do not

After the Jim Crow era blacks had no political rights in the south and little representation in the north. Whites began to regulate blacks through racists organizations, lynching, not enforcing laws and segregation. Segregation reduces the chances of blacks escaping poverty. Seventy-six percent of blacks do not move out of the social class they were born into. From 1910 to 1940 millions of blacks migrated north and became diffused throughout the United States. After the fall of Jim crow racism covert racism appeared. Studies found that minorities face discrimination when trying to buy and rent homes. Blacks are denied housing loan sixty percent more often than whites. Blacks have access to education but a lesser quality. Whites and Asian students are put in an academic track more often than blacks and latino students. Restaurants and stores discriminate against minorities of all backgrounds. Servers have code words when minorities come into restaurants. In stores minorities are constantly watched or ignored if in a high end store. Structural barriers are in the way of blacks who want entry into politics. If blacks get into politics they have little power and remain in subordinate