These authors primarily talk about gender, race, and class discrimination in the United States of America. For instance, Margret& Patricia titled their work, "why Race, Class, and Gender still matter." The discussion is based on how different people in the United States are affected by different types of discrimination based on where they live, their color and gender. Although America seems like one of the less discriminative countries in the world, there are still central areas and situations where it is practiced. Through electing, the first black president, Barrack Obama, the war on discrimination of color seems to be diminishing (Margret & Patricia 2). Hillary Clinton is presumed as the woman who stands to fight against gender discrimination through vying for the next presidential seat in America. America seems to be a country which is still in the war against gender, race, and color discrimination. How court sentences are issued against the black Americans is totally different from how the same rulings are imposed on the whites in America (Mitchell 104).Even in jobs, promotions and wages are given based on gender and color or both. For black female Americans, job promotions are so rare, and whenever they occur, they are not allowed to bring out their opinions freely even though they are in top management because gender and color racism (Marlese & Adia 6). According to Bryson& Miller more young men are more likely to face police harassment compared to the young ladies in the States of America (6-12). These different authors have used different aspects to bring out how gender, race, and class discrimination is practiced in the states. Every author has brought out some few points on gender, race and class discrimination in the United States. They have used quantitative information to come to a conclusion of their research because they have specific statics on gender, race, and class discrimination. Below is an analysis on how different the different authors have used gender, class and race to portray that there is still existing discrimination in America.
The first is Margret & Patricia, why race, class, and gender still matter? These two authors in their articles completely prove that race, class and gender discrimination still occurs in the states. They talk about the Hurricane Katrina which is a storm disaster that occurred in the year 2005. It struck the New Orland which is a low-class people living place. Though this storm is argued to have been an equalizer for both the whites and the blacks, male and female, it is not a leveling factor to the high-class people and the low-class people (Margret & Patricia 1-3). This is because, in the New Orland where the storm struck, it's a place where the poor black Americans lived because they were forced by the government. Viewing it from this perspective, it is evident that there is existing discrimination in America because why the poor black Americans were mostly affected? If there was no discrimination in then, the lower part of this city where the storm occurred could have been evenly distributed with the whites and blacks. The election of President Obama as the first black American president shows that there is still a war going on against race in America, and it's almost won. Now the problem comes to the war against gender is the remaining according to Margret and Patricia because Hillary Clinton is taken as the woman who is fighting that war at the highest level through vying for the presidential seat. If she wins, it will sound a better step against race and gender.
Mitchell emphasizes on the racism. It is clear that there is a very high rate of racism in the states according to Mitchell (98-116).She carries out several case studies on racism and drugs to prove that it exists. According to Mitchell, black Americans face more fierce court sentence if found in possession of any illegal drug compared to their white counterparts (100). In every 14 black men illegal drug users, one is behind bars while in every 106 white men illegal drug users one is behind bars too (Mitchell 2). This implies that the war on drugs in the states is highly focused on black men compared to their white counterparts. Even when the research was carried in America for a person to close their eyes and picture a drug dealer or trafficker, ninety-five present pictured black people (Mitchell 125). Even when a war on drugs was declared and cars were supposed to be searched at random, black Americans were the most searched for drugs compared to the whites. In a certain case where a black American killed a white police officer and sentenced to death sentence compared to if the case was vice versa. According to record if a white killed a black man, they did not receive a death sentence. In events of traffic roads, if a black man violates any of the rules he is exposed to the law with more immediate effect compared to a white who has violated the same law (Mitchell 104).These cases draw many questions like is it only black Americans who are capable of drug trafficking, violating the rules and much more. The fact is even the whites also traffic drugs to their fellow whites. All these are quite good proves to show that the black American faces racism in the United States.
Marlese & Adia show how the female black women face discrimination in jobs. Though Americans try to convince the world that they don’t face gender discrimination, there are still some elements of it in the current working system. Black women in the states rarely face justice when it comes to work promotion and opinion giving in their working places (Marlese & Adia 7).Most of the women who have been promoted in their working places are not free to give their opinion, and they are at risk of maintaining their new positions since a slight mistake may lead to replacement by the whites (Marlese & Adia 15). According to their views and opinions, it’s not even cool working on these top jobs because they face a lot of discrimination from their colleagues and most of them just do it because at the end of the day they got to feed themselves, families to take care of and for their personal upkeep. Most of them employ black women in the managerial jobs so that they can be seen that they are not discriminative. Marlese & Adia states that, “I’m upset about being a Black professional in this environment. It's very isolating. But as much as I'd like to be upset I can't because it would come off the wrong way. So I have to be happygolucky, everything's great, but it sucks" (13).
It is evident that there is still discrimination based on gender, race, and class in the United States. This has been shown via the incidences that black Americans, female gender, and the poor face. These are the people in the American society who are mostly affected by this discrimination. Although the war against discrimination is still on, there is a long way to go to come to a fair American nation.
Works Cited
Mitchell. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Chapter three. The New Press, 2013. Print.
Margret, and Patricia.“Why Gender, Class and Race Still Matter Race," Class and Gender-An Anthology. (Ninth Edition). Cengage Learning, 2015. Print.
Marlese & Adia. Keep Your “N” In Check: African American Women and Interactive Effects of Etiquette and Emotional Labor. Network News, 2008. Print.
