1. Social Class
To calm their fear, whites demand more police presence to ensure social control in black communities. Another explanation is the place stratification theory, which considers "prejudice and discrimination" as factors that prevent integration (Charles, 2003, p. 170). ... "Socioeconomic status and acculturation" determine social mobility (Charles, 2003, p. 170). ... The theory fails to explain this aspect, which the racial threat theory and the place stratification theory address. ...
Throughout the years one can see that the construction of black identity has changed due to white political and social conditions. ... Blacks have used this development of identity to resist, defend, and adapt to the ways of the white political and social conditions. ... I am against the superior-inferior white-black stratification that makes the white a perpetual teacher and the black a perpetual pupil."" ... The article stated that "Indeed, as conditions in the ghetto have worsened and as poor blacks have adapted socially and culturally to this deteriorating, environment, the ghetto has a...
Ending Racial Profiling The federal government should end racial profiling by requiring policemen and other law enforcement officers to keep detailed records of each individual they stop to question or search. These records should include the person's race; the reason stopped; how long the ca...