The Impact Of Racial Segregation On Education

Racial segregation is one of the fundamental issues which is indispensable when talking about the history of the United States. Even since the Civil Rights Act outlawed any discrimination and granted equal rights for all citizens, interracial conflict in this country has not yet solved even today. It is the undeniable evidence of hidden discontents with the race problem in people's mind. The influence of this countrywide problem exists in the education system too. Throughout this semester, we have discussed the subject of racial segregation and its negative impacts on education in the class. As I am an international student who was born in the racially homogenous country, the facts of in-school racial segregation were shocking. At the same time, I thought this subject was also crucial for people who have never experienced racial discrimination. Therefore, for this final paper, I reconsider about in-school racial segregation and its

Then, by comparing their analysis with my own educational experiences in Japan, I will propose solutions to the problem.

The first academic journal is “Race and neighbors in the 21st century: What does segregation mean today?” in the collection of journals “Regional Science and Urban Economics.” This journal focuses on the relationships between racial segregation in the broad sense and neighborhood environments; it also carefully examines “racial gaps” between whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in the United States and compares the differences in the present and the past. First of all, the graph of dissimilarity index in metropolitan areas as the most common measure of segregation explicitly indicates that white-black segregation level has declined steadily while segregation level for Asians and Hispanics stay almost same for few decades. Moreover, the graph of isolation index also indicates that the white-black segregation