Discrimination

“you mean to say this man raped you and you don’t know what he was wearing he snickered as if I had raped Mr. Freeman (Angelou pg. 84)

4. The social issue's impact

Discrimination against

LGBTs

-53% of the LGBT community feel that there is discrimination against LGBTs in society today (Pew Research Center)

How LGBTs are discriminated against

Who?

-Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgenders (LGBT)

-Women

-Individuals with disabilities

-African Americans

Pew Research Center

How Women are Discriminated?

Impact Discrimination

has on Women

The percentages of the women are nearly doubling the percentages of the men. This shows that men are not acknowledging how discrimination impacts women from not being in top jobs/offices.

Pew Research Center

-Women have to fight the battle of equality every day

-Women are greatly impacted by discrimination in sports, school, but mostly in the workplace

Impact Discrimination has on Individuals with Disabilities

-The disabled struggle to develop certain social skills

-They also to have fight to do many simple tasks that we take for granted

How Discrimination has Impacted the Disabled

How African Americans are Impacted by Social Discrimination

-An article made the United Nations Human Right Foundation states:

"20% of the world's poorest people live with disabilities, 98% of children with disabilities in developing countries do not attend school, 1/3 of world's street children live with disabilities, and the literacy rate for adults is as low as 3% and 1% for women with disabilities"

How African Americans are Impacted by Discriminated

-African Americans are impacted by discrimination in the workplace

-According to Tristen K. Green in a Harvard-based book Discrimination in the Workplace Dynamics: Toward a Structural Account of Disparate Treatment Theory:

"The unemployment rate of blacks over whites has nearly doubled"

-Without a job, African Americans are not able to provide for themselves or their family

Impact Discrimination has on African Americans

That is 2,872 crimes because of racial discrimination

48.5% of

hate crimes

were

because of

racially bias

purposes in

2013

These people are not granted the right amount of education or support to lead a better life

Federal Bureau of Investigation

-The most impacted group of people

-Constantly being represented on the news due to the increase of shootings against African Americans

What Research Suggests about Social Discrimination

(Millhiser, US Department of Education)

In two words... Not well... In the past few years racial disputes in the news have been common. The US is more segregated now, especially in schools, than any time in the last 40 years.

President Obama, Henry Louis Gates, and Sgt. James Crowley at the beer summit

(Millhiser)

LGBTs, women, the disabled, and African Americans are affected every day of their lifes because of social discrimination

Discrimation is the primary reason why there is so much poverty, crimes, and conflict in our world today

Long Term and Short Term Affects of Social Discrimination

5. Discrimination's possible solutions

-No short term effects, the way people treat you stick with you forever

-Many attempts of suicide

-The stress of discrimination leads to unhealthy outcomes

• Change minds Early
• Look at merit and qualification when considering one for a job
• Become "color blind"

Voluntary Busing

• Busing was the cause for minority increase in majority white schools in 1970s
• Incentive to make it work today

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

• Spend tax money to ensure no discriminatory acts in real estate
• Can lead to better integrated neighborhoods

(Hannah-Jones)

Magnet Schools

• Were used as a remedy for racial seperation in schools
• Now their focus is not racial integration and the schools are very selective

Overall not many impactful solutions have been/are being made

The US is not in a good state in terms of racial discrimination and segregation

3. The social issue's history

How are we presently dealing with discrimination?

How else may the issue be solved impact be lessened?

Racial & Gender

Discrimination

What kinds solutions are being developed?

Main Points:

Main Point:

Main Points:

When did it emerge as a more "serious" problem?

How did the social issue become one?

What changed in society to enlighten us to this social issue?

Rosa Parks bus boycott

The killing and terrorization of black people

African slaves were brought over to America

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Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Movement

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Racial-

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The KKK and other extremist organizations

People thought that the slaves were like chidren

Racial-

Current protests against black discrimination

Hate crimes and bombings

Slaves were then mistreated, abused and treated like property

(Domestic Threat: White Supremacy

Extremism)

(Rosa Parks: Mother Of The Civil Rights

Movement)

(Slavery in the United States)

Women have always been seen as inferior to men

The killing and mistreatment of women

Women's rights movements

Gender-

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Women were referred to as children

Women in less developed countries

Lucy Stone and Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Pandora's box, Hinduism

Women in general

The growth of women's rights

(WIC- Women's History in America)

(The Facts: Gender Inequality)

(First Women's Rights Movement)

2. The social issue

Questions

6. The social issue's outlook

"... I'd rather stick my hand in a dogs mouth than a Niggers"

page 189

In 2014, Women made 79 Cents to every Male dollar

(IWPR)

• Racial
• Gender
• LGBT
• Disability

Do you think that this is discriminatory or racist? Why or why not?

("10 years after 9/11")

(Caulfield 1)

Ohlheiser 1

Discrimination against

• Various Races
• LGBTQ+
• Women
• Disabled

Ethnic Politics

How did you feel during this physical seperation? How would you feel if this happened to you everyday?

What is the worst kind of discrimination? Which one has the most impact on society today?

1. Discrimination

7. The social issue's presence in a theme

“I was going to look like one of the sweet little white girls who were everybody’s dream of what was right with the world”(Angelou pg.2)

Discrimination in America

by annie, ashini, caroline, christina G., christina m. & sydney