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…

Introduction The movie “Glory Road” is a movie that fought against racial discrimination vividly and brought about some immense social changes in our society. The story revolves around a basketball coach “Don Haskins” who decides to build a basketball team based on talent and not…

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…

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…

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian novelist, “Human beings are born with different capacities, if they are free, they are not equal”. The author of The Giver, Lois Lowry, displays this message across the whole book. The main character, Jonas gets the job of the receiver, he…

Segregation in America is a concept that many believe ended after the 1964 Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. The Board of Education. However, what a majority of Americans fail to realise is that segregation is just as prevalent in America as it was in…