Racial Discrimination Poverty, African American, Affirmative action

Class discrimination

Social dominance researched by Pratto points out the notion that hierarchies exist between groups in society, allowing some groups to have the dominance and power over others (Pratto 760). African Americans’ impoverishment and high crime rates have plagued society for years. The origin has a closely bound with the historical slavery and racial discrimination in the US, and drives question self to the problem at the first place. From the beginning of the 1960s, in order to ease ethnic tensions, U.S. federal government actively implements the "affirmative action" policies, trying to compensate for centuries’ persecution on blacks and other minorities and promote social justice and racial equality. William J. Wilson points out that the great movement achieved from the civil rights returns a rapid rise of the black middle class (Wilson 330). In study of the current poverty problems should mainly emphasize on class bias rather than color issue. The groups of underprivileged minorities who left behind in economic structure changes are now real disadvantages class in American society. But now many ask since