Week 2 blog
Yuzhe Zhang, A01
In week2’s reading, I learned a lot about the racial discrimination in education. Not only the
college students, but also the middle school students are suffering from the
unfairness. According to the article “Asian Americans and Affirmative Action:
From Yellow Peril to Model Minority and Back Again” (Allred, 2017), colored people’s
opportunities in education are less than white ones. Allred used an example
that “Martha Lum, a nine-year-old girl of Chinese descent living in Bolivar
County, Mississippi, was barred from attending a "white" school.”
Because of Martha’s Asian identity, she lost her chance to receive better
education. The injustice in education is prevalent and unintentionally.
I found a video on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjFiX-FvveM)
on this topic.
Scientists did an experiment making different-race-teachers to grade
ten same students. The results showed that the black teachers would grade
30%-40% higher than white teachers if the students are black. The conclusion
is, teachers tend to give high grades to the students who have the same skin
color (race) with them. This is not considered as an advantage the colored
students have, but it showed that the teachers are unintentionally racist.
Here is a question: Would
colored students have some advantages over white students in some areas of
their education? In which case?
References
Allred N.C, (2007). Asian Americans and
Affirmative Action- From Yellow Peril to Mode. 57-84
Seeker, (2016). Are
Teachers Unintentionally Racist? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjFiX-FvveM
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