Essays on Inequality

In the novel, Obasan, Kogawa uses Naomi’s character development to convey that early life racism, internment and abandonment from loved ones can lead to one feeling confused about their identity. The narrator of the novel, Naomi, goes through a series of traumatic events as a…

The racial wealth gap is deeply entrenched in past injustices, which breeds today’s inequalities. Since the end of slavery, the black population held less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. That number has remained stagnant even in the face of a thriving…

I agree about education inequality does exist in Malaysia, many rural schools in this country are so isolated that the students are not aware of scholarships and grants available to them. Why I agree about it? In the paragraph below, I will discuss the issue…

The problem of Income Inequality Inequality is bad and getting worse every time. Income inequality is an extreme concentration of wealth and money of a small percentage of a population, explaining the gap between the richest and the rest of the people. The problem is…

Stereotypes There is a lack of Asian American representation in mainstream media. I remember a time in my childhood where I would turn the TV on and find numerous shows without an Asian American cast member. As the years passed, I started to notice that…

In the 20th Century In the mid twentieth century, Asian foreigners were denied citizenship, and even American-conceived residents of Asian parentage experienced foundational lawful, social, and financial segregation that consigned them to below average citizenship. Over the previous century, Asian Americans have fought for equivalent…

Introduction According to C. Wright Mills (1959), the Sociological Imagination refers to the ability to understand that one’s own issues are not merely caused by one’s owns beliefs and thoughts, but by society and its structures. An issue that many people, including myself, face and…

The Progressive Era from 1900-1920 was not effective in bringing about true progressive reforms at the national level because it had been a slow process by the presidents co-opting the ideas of true progressives, limited trust-busting, which led to corporations expanding abroad, and continuous racial…

Until today, I was not aware that individuals from the LGBT community were discriminated to the point where their jobs were on the line. To this I ask, “Why?” One common phrase used by employers is “Keep your home life and work life separate”. If…

The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell is made up of nine chapters showing how racism is in America and how strongly it affects black Americans. Each chapter of his book presents a different fictional scenario through which we can see how the issues and…