Social and Racial Inequality

Created by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, the Racial Dot Map provides ”an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country” (USA 2013).

U.S. Census Bureau estimates for 2018 show that racial minority populations—especially Hispanic, Asian and black Americans—continue to expand (USA: Brookings 2019).

The U.S. website features a series of radio podcasts that discuss various types of discrimination (USA: Freakonomics 2021).

Based on civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education, ProPublica has built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline (USA 2019).

The Equal Justice Initiative researchers have documented 4075 racial terror lynchings of African Americans between 1877 and 1950 (USA 2018)

In dieser Unterrichtseinheit erörtern Schülerinnen und Schüler Fälle von mutmaßlicher Polizei­gewalt gegen schwarze Menschen und setzen sich kritisch mit Racial Profiling auseinander (ZEIT 2022).

W.E.B. Du Bois’ prose poem “Credo” proclaimed his philosophy of racial equality. Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor (USA 2015-21).

Each of 4 maps illustrates a different phenomenon that shaped Saint Louis: white flight; laws and policies that deliberately created racial segregation; municipal zoning laws; and laws and policies that fit under the umbrella of ʺurban renewal.ʺ (USA 2017-21)

In this 12th-grade Law class at a High School in Minnesota,  the teacher engages students in a structured discussion of a highly controversial issue - racial profiling - and connects student learning both to their study of due process in constitutional law and to police procedure in their study of criminal law (Annenberg 2015).