Category: Segregation

The United States has continuously been a diverse but segregated nation. This has developed American politics extremely. Danah Boyd’s article, Why America is Self Segregating, he briefly explains the unraveling of two historical institutions through social, racial, and class-supported differences of social networks. Displacing Democracy Economic Segregation in America, by Amy Widestrom she discusses that…

Together sixty-five percent of kindergarten classrooms are made up of African Americans and Hispanic individuals. On the contrary, only eighteen percent of them are being admitted into gifted and talented programs (par. 5). America’s school system and student population remain segregated, by race and class. Inequalities still remain in schools; this is not just the…