Residential Racism
It is easy to think that because slavery has already been over and that civil rights have already been fought for that racism is no longer a problem. That is, however, far from the truth. In James W. Loewen's chapter, "Dreaming in Black and White", Loewen discusses how racial discrimination against black people have shaped a very different idea of the American Dream for the black community. It is easy today, as a millennial, to overlook the subtleties of racism that occur within our daily lives and pass them off as insignificant. Being born into an era in which racial policies have already been eliminated from our society already grants us a different perspective on racism. When the only racial policies you hear of are from your textbook, you think that racism is only something of the past. But when you get older and start to notice that certain people get treated differently, certain neighborhoods tend to have a certain race, and even certain races tend to hang out wit...