Race As A Social Construct
Race and ethnicity, as real and unreal as they may be, often have definite implication and outcomes, race is a social construct that has meaning only because the society gives it meaning. Class structure in our capitalist society refers to the social ranking of individuals, families and other groups according to their economic status. And according to the Assistant Attorney General Ron Davis, some type of racial classification was necessary to comply with the federal record-keeping requirements and to facilitate programs for the prevention of genetic diseases. This type of discrimination and marginalization has serve as a hindrance to upward mobility for ethnic or minorities seeking to escape poverty. It also creates problems of residential segregation, and affects everything from family wealth, economic well-being, education, access to healthy food and
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The laws, and regulations that instruct on police tactics, arrest rates, sentencing, incarceration rates, and life after parole, the execution of these tactics are different for depending of your ethnicity or race. Race will be irrelevant in the future, but not in the near future. There are many cities in the United States in which it may be consider that great steps have been done in that process, but it has not been enough, since the federal government issues rulings that contribute to perpetuate this classification by race. But there is going to be a date when the majority of citizens of the United States will be not be able to define themselves as one race or the other because they are offspring’s of so many interracial descendants and that majority will be able to change the laws and
The laws, and regulations that instruct on police tactics, arrest rates, sentencing, incarceration rates, and life after parole, the execution of these tactics are different for depending of your ethnicity or race. Race will be irrelevant in the future, but not in the near future. There are many cities in the United States in which it may be consider that great steps have been done in that process, but it has not been enough, since the federal government issues rulings that contribute to perpetuate this classification by race. But there is going to be a date when the majority of citizens of the United States will be not be able to define themselves as one race or the other because they are offspring’s of so many interracial descendants and that majority will be able to change the laws and