Comparative case study analysis of systemic racism in education as self-perpetuating and causal of racial disparities for African Americans
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COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMIC RACISM IN EDUCATION AS SLF-PERPETUATING AND CAUSAL OF RACIAL DISPARITIES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
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This comparative case study analysis examined the social impact of racial, social and political discrimination against African Americans in three major areas of education--special education, classroom education and school discipline. This analysis has provided historical data to show that white Americans had no intention of providing any type of education for Africans brought to this country to provide a much-needed slave labor force. The data in this study showed that white Americans had no intentions of providing a high-standard education for African American children to be on par with white children, nor did they intend for education that was preemptively provided to African Americans to be on par with what was being provided to white Americans. In fact, the literature and data that have been examined have provided very valid reasons to conclude that America’s creation and perpetuation of systemic racism in the educational system was deliberate and by design.
Findings from this study have shown that racial disparities have manifested disproportionalities in various academic programs, discipline related outcomes, and have impeded the overall academic potential for African American males. The case studies analyzed in this study have helped to unravel and provide empirical evidence to support numerous claims by researchers that systemic racism is a present and conscious impediment to the education of African American students. Furthermore, this study concluded that educators, policy makers, researchers, or maintainers of this system cannot begin to remediate the problem of systemic racism in education until they stop ignoring and marginalizing its existence.