Essays about: "racial segregation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words racial segregation.

1. 1. The Role of Urban Planning in Counteracting Segregation: The Case of Pinelands, South Africa

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Emmy Tarras-Wahlberg; Emmy Larsson; [2022]
   Keywords : Segregation; integration; socio-economic status; spatial planning; urban planning; affordable housing; social housing; inclusionary housing; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Segregation is a common phenomenon arising worldwide. Residential segregation has been shown to have several negative consequences for people living in less wealthy neighbourhoods, such as health-related setbacks and being less likely to cope with school. READ MORE

3. 2. An Exploration of the American Justice System through the Trial of Tom Robinson : A New Historicist Analysis of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Eva-Lena Henriksson; [2021]
   Keywords : To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee; Systemic racism; Racial bias; American justice system; New historicism; Scottsboro cases; Civil rights movement; Civil rights; Black Lives Matter movement; Constitutional rights.;

   Abstract : Adding something new to the understanding of To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), which is considered a twentieth-century classic, would be nearly impossible if not for the outlook of new historicism. Through a new historicist analysis of Harper Lee’s literary text parallel to non-fictional texts relating to the American justice system and civil rights, this essay explores how race affects U. READ MORE

4. 3. Mind The Gap! Pay, Gender, and Ethnicity in the United Kingdom

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Hannah Leadbetter; [2020]
   Keywords : Pay gaps gender ethnicity occupational segregation double disadvantage; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Despite many years of progress towards closing the gender pay gap and achieving racial equality, women from ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom earn less compared to their male counterparts and to the population average. The extent of channelling into certain areas of occupation and employment are a prominent feature of the employment of minority groups in the UK and is a key mechanism investigated in this study. READ MORE

5. 4. Now you see it, now you don’t - A literature-based study on identifying normative whiteness in relation to structural racism and social determinants of health

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för medicin

   Author : Laura Voutilainen; [2019-08-01]
   Keywords : whiteness; critical race and whiteness studies; social determinants of health; public health; structural racism; vithet; kritiska ras- och vithetsstudier; hälsans sociala bestämningsfaktorer; folkhälsovetenskap; strukturell rasism;

   Abstract : Background: Structural racism is increasingly regarded as a central issue for disparities in social determinants of health. Eliminating such structure can be seen as central for achieving racial health equity. READ MORE

6. 5. Perspectives of Transracial Adoption: a Case Study of South Africa

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Carolina Nielsen; [2019]
   Keywords : South Africa; post-apartheid; transracial adoption; racial segregation;

   Abstract : South Africa has been under apartheid regime characterized by racial segregation. As a result, transracial adoption only became legal in 1991. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how transracial adoption has been perceived in South Africa. READ MORE