1. Social Class
The demise of colonialism in the Caribbean did not mark the end of social stratification based on racial and ethnic divisions. ... When Great Britain first colonized Jamaica, a type of social system was created. This social system was based around the need for slavery and the plantation systems. ... This "hierarchy of shades" equates social status and autonomy with skin color. ... She struggles to find whether her identity lies in her nationality, her social stratification, her race, her sex, her language, her individual history, or her family history. ...
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. ...
The social order gets maintained by power in the individuals that possess the greatest economic, political and social resources[ CITATION Oto02 l 1033 ]. ... The social relationships mainly revolve around exploitation and power. ... Goods and services get unequally distributed as a result of social stratification[CITATION Chr04 l 1033 ]. ... However, social stratification in the two countries totally depends on both economic and cultural factors. ... The revolution resulted in changes in the social structure. ...
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...