Racial Discrimination in Education

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ABSTRACT

In this study, we try to explore the concept of racial discrimination emerging in the society. While the research, theory and policy literature on race, class and gender discrimination in and through education is extensive, the problem of education-based discrimination itself defined as the promiscuous, arbitrary and unjust denial of rights, privileges, freedoms, voice or respect to those lacking in educational achievement, credentials, ability or opportunity has been widely overlooked. Most people believe that racial and socioeconomic inequalities tend to overlap in other words; blacks are poorer because they have less education and worse jobs. In the past few years, however, several quantitative studies have presented an interesting puzzle: racial inequalities are strongest among those at the top of the socioeconomic hierarchy. This article explores the “elitist profile” of racial discrimination through eighty in-depth interviews with black professionals. Their perceptions of injustice, however, are more directly related to experiences of racial discrimination.

TABLE OF CONTENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTii

DECLARATIONiii

ABSTRACTiv

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Background of study1

Rationale1

Aims & Objectives2

Significance2

Research questions2

The proposed research questions in this study are accordingly as follows:2

?To what extend the society is being affected by racial discrimination?2

?What are key factors that black are given lower priority in education?2

?What role a society can play to reduce this prevailing disparity among classes?2

Reliability & Validity3

Gantt chart3

Time Scale4

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW6

Some Regularity in the Genesis of Social Inequalities in School6

History of Black education in British North American Colonies7

The First Black Universities8

Early 20th century8

African American schools8

Upward Mobility and Contexts of Racial Discrimination11

Upward Mobility in Black and White11

Case analysis11

Racial discrimination and its impact13

Empirical Gaps in the Study of Racial Discrimination in Adolescence14

Critical Race Theory15

Purpose of the study16

Extent to which the disadvantages have disappeared16

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY18

Literature Search18

Reliability (If Using Questionnaire)19

CHAPTER 04: ANTICIPATED RESULT21

REFERENCES23

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

Background of study

Discrimination can be define as treating people/groups of people less favourably than others due to factors relating to race, colour, gender, disability, ethnic origin, nationality, age, and religion. Unfortunately, there are many groups in our society that faces discrimination every day, and this discrimination can take a variety of forms including direct and indirect discrimination. Direct discrimination is, when someone openly and obviously treats someone differently due to the above factors (Garcia, 2009, 46-49).

One of the strong methodological issues in comparative studies is the construction of equivalence, ie, the event that the instrument measures the same latent trait in all groups, or nations and cultures ". In the case of "ethnic" and "race" there are serious obstacles to the construction of such comparative rankings across countries and a wide range of concepts are ...