Running head: VULNERABLE POPULATION 1 Vulnerable Population: African Americans LaToya Parks Jacksonville State University VULNERABLE POPULATION 2
against in the United States. Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American are a few of the groups the public discriminates against. These people are considered minorities in American society. Studies have shown that only about 25% of the population of the United States is not white. (Infoplease) This creates a major problem with discrimination since most of the population is white. For kids in the United States over 50% are white. (KidsCount) This causes discrimination in communities and schools.
feature of urban life in the United States (Squires, Friedman, & Siadat, 2001). It is the application of denying minority groups, especially African Americans, equal access to housing through misinterpretation, which denies people of color finance services and opportunities to afford decent housing. Caucasians usually live in areas that are mostly white communities. However, African Americans are most likely lives in areas that are racially combines with African Americans and Hispanics. A miscommunication
policing and profiling in America. Within the United States, Tennessee is one of the states with the highest rates of incarceration; Tennessee’s incarceration rates are consistently higher than the national average. The composition of those incarcerated in Tennessee was the primary intention of this research and analysis of data. Prior to conducting analysis of the data, we hypothesized that a disparity would exist between incarceration rates of African American residents and those of White residents.
HIV/AIDS has been a repeat offender in the deaths of many people worldwide, African Americans, specifically, have been disproportionately impacted by this virus since it was first discovered in the early 1980s. Despite African Americans only being accountable for a small portion of the total U.S. population, they are the ethnic group most greatly affected by this virus. The HIV and AIDS epidemic does not simply target African American males, but over the years has grown to greatly affect black women, gay
For a majority of the 20th century, sentencing policies had a minimal effect on social inequality (Western and Pettit 2002). In the early 1970s, this began to change when stricter sentencing policies were enacted (Western and Pettit 2002). Sentencing laws such as determinate sentencing, truth-in-sentencing, mandatory minimum sentencing, and three-strikes laws were enacted with the purpose of achieving greater consistency, certainty, and severity in sentencing (National Research Council 2014). Numerous
downfalls of communities that were aren’t made aware of in modern textbooks or in classrooms. In Chapter 10, we are knowledgeable that the Latino vote has not only increased by sky-rocketed from the years 1976 to 2008. The revolution has been in the works since post World War II although it’s not commonly known as other legacies throughout the United States. As the years later progressed, the United States saw the rise of major radical groups such
Latino, African American, Native American, and many more. African Americans and Latinos each make up about 4% of all the doctors in the United States, while Asians account for 11% of the U.S. doctors (Conrad). This poses the question, why is there such a large difference between the number of doctors in each race? The most obvious explanation is the population of each race in the United States. About 77% of the United States population is Caucasian, while only 18% is Latino, 13% is African American
conditions between different population groups. These differences not only impact the population groups facing them but also hinder the efforts to improve the quality of healthcare for the whole population with unnecessary cost implications (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). This paper examines health disparities for the Somali Americans and offers a community-based approach that can improve patient outcomes. Health Disparities among the Somali Americans Several health and healthcare
African-American Studies The aspect of African-American Studies is key to the lives of African-Americans and those involved with the welfare of the race. African-American Studies is the systematic and critical study of the multidimensional aspects of Black thought and practice in their current and historical unfolding (Karenga, 21). African-American Studies exposes students to the experiences of African-American people and others of African descent. It allows the promotion and sharing of the African-American
In the perspective of healthcare, disparities denotes the substantial differences between populations or groups in relation to prevalence, incidence, mortality and morbidity rates. The prospective elucidation for health disparities ranges from dissimilarities in environmental and societal issues that impacts patients’ trust, likings, awareness or self-efficacy, to cultural variances between patients and providers, communication obstacles and possibly, discrimination. These factors can lead to differences
incarceration in the United States, specifically to those who are African-Americans, is a literal fabrication of our imperfect world and details the thinly veiled allegory of our social apartheid. According to author Glenn Loury, this aspect of our nation’s prison system is the most damaging to our African-American community, wherein said group are being racially profiled and “trapped in the dark vestiges of the ghetto” (Loury, 2008, 57). In his ethnography, Race, Incarceration, and American Values, Loury
discrepancies with minority sentencing and majority selling of it.
Gertz, 2013) African Americans make up to 50% of the prison population but are only 12 % of the total United States population. Bobo and Thompson (2006) stated that Hispanics make up to 18 % of the prison population but are only 14 % of the total United States Population, while Caucasians make up to 75 % of the total population and are only 35 % of the prison population in American. (Coker,2003) supports Cole and Gertz and states that African Americans make up to half of the prison population while only
The discussion on race and politics has been predominately about Caucasians and African Americans, however the increasing number of the Latino population in the United States leads political scientists to question how Latinos behave politically. Latinos do not behave in a political block. The assumption that Latinos behave this way is based on the studies of black politics. Studies show that African Americans tend to vote in a cohort leaning mostly democratic; based on these findings some political
Through history American society has struggled with a conflict of bigotry. It has come to be a cultural norm to dislike a person due to simplistic superficial differences. Whether it be color, ideals, or origin, discrimination tramples through everything leaving behind only hate and intolerance. With this people have used stereotypes to group one another only to make it easier to understand the world 's diverse population. It begs the question, is the easier route the right one? In today 's
Immigrants have always been an important part of United States’ population. Each year, there are hundreds of thousands of immigrants, from all around the world, including legal and illegal, come into the United States for job opportunities, new life, or the American Dream. “Immigrants have contributed significantly to the development of the United States. During the Lincoln administration, immigrants were actually encouraged to come to America, as they were considered valuable to the development
every day. White Americans don’t see how dreadful Structural Racism is and how it affects people of color that are suffering from racism, police brutality, and inside of poverty. America is not aware of how serious structural racism is. Maybe they weren’t taught correctly or maybe they were taught to not care about it. In my opinion police In America are unfair. It’s one way of arresting an innocent African-American for no explanation, but to shoot and kill an African-American has gone to a different
hotel room. The news of King’s assassination left the African-American community shocked, disappointed and outraged. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. triggered various responses from the black and white communities. The black community’s main response was widespread violence throughout the United States, resulting in demises and military involvement, while a few decided to hold peaceful protests in King’s memory. Many in the white community celebrated, while others feared for their lives.
Social Diagnosis Atlanta is the capital and largest city in Georgia, with a population of 472,522, and one of the fastest growing major cities in the United States.1 Originally, known as a railroad settlement, it was founded in 1837 as the end of the Western & Atlantic railroad line ( the name changed from Marthasville to Terminus, to finally Atlanta, the feminine of Atlantic). 10 In 1861, became one of the 11 states seceding from the Union over the issue of slavery.11 It was also the home front