Discrimination Research

I found an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution here is the link, https://www.ajc.com/education/former-emory-law-school-student-sues-university-for-gender-discrimination/KSU42FYZVBEVHJSRKRZ3NO35GI.

I chose this article in particular because it is talking about gender discrimination which is a form of both institutionalized and culturalized discrimination but more institutionalized in this situation. It is about a women law student at Emory College. She has filed a discrimination lawsuit because she says the college isn't treating her fairly or her complaints fairly. She claims she was raped and the college did nothing about it and that they seem to be giving the man who was accused extra privileges. I think this ties well into A Raisin in the Sun and To Kill A Mockingbird because there are multiple examples of gender discrimination like how Benetha shouldn't be a doctor because she is a woman and how Scout is left out of a lot of things just because she is a girl. This definitely proves that discrimination still exists today, there are laws now unlike back then but it still happens even in the slightest of ways. I think it'll be hard to ever really stop it fully even though I wish you could. 

I found an article about discrimination dealing with amazon AWS . People were coming forward saying that one specific person was making discriminatory comments toward a woman of color along with other people of color. One person even left the company because it became too much for him to handle. This is cultural discrimination, we also see this in To Kill A Mockingbird when Atticus defends Tom who is a person of color and often got called racial slurs as most people found him to be a bad man. You can also find cultural discrimination in A Raisin In The Sun when the Younger's want to move into a white neighborhood and Mr. Linder thinks they should move into a neighborhood with people who have the same background as them.This article about amazon shows discrimination still exists because although people of color, etc. are just minding their business and trying to do their jobs and some people can't view people as equal for some unknown reason and feel the need to bother others about it. 

I chose an article titled Black Women on Body Discrimination, From Colorism to Natural Hair Discrimination by Nairobi Williese Barnes. This topic appealed to me because of how cultural discrimination affects the black population, particularly black women. The article highlights both cultural and institutional discrimination against black girls and women with natural hair types, such as how hairstyles like braids or afros are perceived as less professional in the workplace, and how Black women with natural hair were less likely to get a job interview than their white counterparts or Black women with straightened hair. This article, in my opinion, goes well with Raisin in the Sun and To Kill a Mockingbird because both books contain numerous examples of cultural and institutional discrimination, such as George's insulting and minimization of Benetha's African heritage in order to make a point, which is an obvious case of cultural discrimination. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is sentenced to death for supposedly rapping Mayella Ewell, and despite the jury's preference for Atticus, they ultimately found him guilty, notwithstanding Tom Robinson's inability to use his left arm. However, the jury sided with Mr. Ewell. They trusted the word of a white man above the word of a black man. They didn't want to break the black-and-white code.

Here is the link to the article: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-women-on-body-discrimination-from-colorism-to-natural-hair-discrimination

In Lincoln Nebraska Sarah Williams field a lawsuit against the city for harassment and discrimination against her and other female officers in there department. I think that this is cultural discrimination. When women work in a "male" dominate field there are going to be some discrimination against women. Especially if women are doing better than the men. In the A Raisin in the Sun Beneatha want to be a doctor but people said that she shouldn't because she is a women. In the To Kill a Mockingbird Everyone thought that Scout should dress more like a lady. https://www.1011now.com/2021/12/14/former-lincoln-police-officer-brings-light-alleged-sexual-harassment-discrimination-within-department/  

A student at the University of Lethbridge filed a lawsuit against the post-secondary school for its COVID-19 vaccination policy. The U of L announced its vaccination policy, which gave the option of regular rapid COVID-19 testing to unvaccinated people attending the campus, however, Rapid testing was no longer being accepted as an alternative to the vaccination... except for campus community members who could not be vaccinated based on medical or other protected grounds outlined in the Alberta Human Rights Act.

This is industrial discrimination. this can be related to the new house in a Raisin in the Sun because in the real world situation they don't let a student attend a university because he doesn't have the covid vaccination and in the book, they don't let them perches the house because they are colored and the people in both communities feel as though they are a threat.

the united states have not changed after this event and many like it all over the U.S and people are still being forced to use an unproven vaccination to prove they are safe and are not allowed to live their normal life without it.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8448787/covid-19-vaccine-policy-university-lethbridge-lawsuit/  

This example is actually very recent. December 15th, 2021, a former law school student at Emory Law School witch whose name is not said, filed a lawsuit against a male classmate with multiple rape allegations. The woman claims that the university provided accommodations to her alleged rapist but not her. Also claimed that he was allowed to submit an opening statement though she couldn't.

This relates to both To kill a mocking bird and A Rasin In The Sun because they are examples of cultural discrimination. Tom in To Kill A Mocking Bird was seen guilty by most people in town based on the color of his skin. And in A Rasin In The Sun, the younger family was told by the welcoming commite that the peole of the community would be better in their own community meaning liveing with other afrian american communities. But Housing was more expensive for African American community than it was in a white community.

https://www.ajc.com/education/former-emory-law-school-student-sues-university-for-gender-discrimination/KSU42FYZVBEVHJSRKRZ3NO35GI/

I found an article about age discrimination against their district managers. https://www.wibw.com/2021/10/01/dollar-general-faces-lawsuit-alleged-age-discrimination-oklahoma/

Someone in the work force no matter what age they are. They should be called grumpy old man or whatever just because of how old they are. Saying that they need "young blood". In to kill a mocking bird Scout is judge by Mrs. Maudie when she is talking to Scout about Mr. Arthur saying that she is to young to understand. Meaning that just because she is young she won't understand what was being send.

A school in Houston, Magnolia ISD was being sued for alleged discrimination. This school has a dress code policy specifically outing boys and nonbinary student with long hair. The boys attending this school must follow the handbook and in this handbook it stated; "hair must be no longer than the bottom of a dress shirt collar, bottom of the ear, and out of the eyes for male students.” Parents were upset by this and sued the school for discriminating, the article does say that this violated the students' right to equal protection; "the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX, a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational institutions that receive federal dollars." Another rule brought up in this lawsuit was how; "The district’s 2021-2022 student handbook currently says earrings should be worn only by female students and “earrings worn by boys will be confiscated and may not be returned to the student.” This school is displaying Individual Discrimination and Institutionalized Discrimination.

This relates back to To Kill a Mockingbird when Scout is asked by Aunt Alexandra to be more ladylike, Scout doesn't agree with Alexandra. This Relates back to A Raisin in the Sun because Beneatha is an independent woman that doesn't think she needs a man to like. She goes completely against society's norms. Beneatha decides to cut her hair so it's in its natural form and gets questioned by Asagai and Walter. 

 Female officers involved in lawsuit against LPD facing discipline, including suspensions and firings. In this article female officers made complaints about sexual harassment and discrimination. Those who have sued or complained are now facing disciplinary actions. The male officers that were the reasons for the complaints have not any consequences. This is Institutional discrimination but it is also gender discrimination which really relates to A Raisin In The Sun because Benetha faced that when she said she was going to become a doctor. This shows that discrimination is still present because this article was written two days ago.   

https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/female-officers-involved-in-lawsuits-against-lpd-facing-discipline-including-suspensions-and-firings/article_abb232a0-b2d3-55a5-a80b-716fe6183e8b.html  

This article explains the discrimination happening to people of color in the workplace and explaining how it may have gotten worse with COVID-19. This article gives the percentages of each race that was affected by this within a 5 year period. "That number rises to 42% for Black workers over a longer time period of five years, the Cost of Racial Injustice report found. The percentages for Asian workers was 26%, while 21% of Hispanic or Latino workers said they were unfairly treated during the five-year period. For white workers, the number was 12%." (US News) This quote perfectly explains the troubles that people of color and ethnicity have to go through each day because of discrimination.  This discrimination could tie into A Raisin in The Sun because they are simply discriminating people in the workplace and singling them out because of it In a Raisin in The Sun they single out the Younger's because they are the only African Americans in a "all white" community. 

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-05-24/report-finds-racism-prevalent-in-the-workplace

My article is called "10 Black Women Officers Sue DC Police, Claim Racial and Sexual Harassment" and it discusses a recent (very recent, still ongoing) lawsuit between (now) 12 black female officers and their current/former employer, the DC Police department. This is a case of individual discrimination, which is one of the least common forms of discrimination within the two stories we're reading in class (from my perspective). In this lawsuit the black women allege that white co-workers sexually harassed them made racially insensitive comments to the women, the lawsuit also alleges that the offenders worked together to make a environment of "intimidation" and retaliated after one of the woman filed a complaint. 

While this mainly focuses on individual discrimination, there is institutional discrimination since it's alleged that those running the police department also encouraged misconduct. Institutional decriminalization in the work place (and specifically the DCPD) is just another example of how discrimination continues to happen behind closed doors. TKM and ARITS both focus highly on racial and gender discrimination which is also the main focus within this case.

This discrimination shows a distinct difference from that of TKM, TKM features a more straight forward display of discrimination but as society has changed, discrimination becomes harder to see and more ingrained within ways of thinking. In TKM it was laws directly made to inhibit peoples rights and outward discrimination at the higher level (within the government specifically), in ARITS it was less forward discrimination and more just within the institutions build from the hundreds of years before and now it's discrimination that hides itself behind closed doors and pressures people into silence. 

Discrimination now is more hidden and that's why it's harder to find and get justice for, and the progression between these stories takes a bit of time to notice but makes sense when we look at how things are currently.

The article "Hair has Nothing to do With Competency" describes how workplaces in the US were culturally discriminating people of color and their hair. Their hair was labeled as unattractive and unprofessional. Such as something like an Afro type hair. These people just want to wear their hair the way it is naturally.  "A high schooler in New Jersey by the name of Andrew Johnson was told by a white referee that he would either have to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit a wresting match" This is making someone try to change their natural look for their own wants needs. This goes back to when benatha chemically straightened her hair and Joe Asagai made fun of her. There are still many examples of discrimination that we may not all notice in the USA.

Najma Osman, a Manitoba two-sport athlete, along with many other athletes, has experienced racism from teammates, coaches, and opponents, and has started a campaign to stop it. A video of her speaking out, posted 8 days ago, shows that it doesn't matter the way it's delivered or who experiences it or how, racism is still prevalent today. At only 19 years old, She has been called the N-word twice during games and has also had her hijab pulled off in public. These things can connect to A Raisin in the Sun and to Kill a Mocking Bird, in their own separate but similar ways. The two types of discrimination are individual and cultural discrimination. Individual-related to A Rasin in the Sun, connects to when Najma's hijab was taken off in public. It's individual because its about her personal characteristic. It relates to A Raisin in the Sun because the welcoming committee strongly suggested that the Younger's don't move into that neighborhood because of the attacks on African-Americans in that community, such as bombings. The second type of discrimination is cultural discrimination which relates to To Kill a Mocking Bird where the Finch's, specifically Atticus, was called names for being a lawyer for a Black man. Throughout the book they also use slurs when referring to African americans. This connects to Najma because multiple times playing sports, she has been called slurs. The two books were set around the 1950's, but Najmas issues have been during her lifetime and she brought it to the public eye a couple days ago. This shows that it no matter the form, racism still exists in some way today. 

I have picked this article because it shows Individual and Cultural Discrimination because it talks about how a group of black school kids has been the target of discrimination from other students and even the teachers themselves.  The teacher would create a science lab for them to partake in but if you look closer at it, it was all just a ploy to have the teachers show how they feel about fellow blacks in school.  This article shares individual discrimination with the book TKM as they both are being targeted.  "Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him (Lee 248)."  this shows how Atticus was verbally and physically abused because someone disliked how he protected a black man.  This article shares cultural discrimination with the book ARITS as they both had a specific group target them.      "It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that out Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities (Lee 118)."  This quote shows that the People of Clybourne Park wanted to keep this family out of their community and they are trying to do it peacefully.  this shows it's still an issue today because many citizens are still trying to live and stay away from those they call disgusting and create actions take to try to disseminate facts about them.

"On Jan. 8, the Supreme Court passed up a chance to hear an appeal of a Mississippi law that allows businesses and governments to deny services to LGBT people over religious beliefs. That means the law will stand. "    Nacozy, Lee. LGBT Discrimination Easy as Cake. , 2018. SIRS Issues Researcher, https://explore.proquest.com/sirsissuesresearcher/document/2265827050?accountid=3947 .  

 This incident happened early in the year of 2018 this basically means that businesses did not have to sell goods or services to members of the lgbtq community. This is Culteral discrimination. These buisnesses refused to sell goods and sevices to those part a a certain group just based on the sexuality.

Discrimination can be mentally challenging for people especially with the time that both stories take place. Cultural discrimination both appear in both stories but in A Raisin in the Sun a moment where Discrimination shows that affects someone mentally is Walter. We can see him struggle with him wanting to start a liquor store that he gets so invested in the idea that he loses all the money Mama gave him. After this incident Walter isn't the same person he is depressed and also really stressed out because he finds out that Ruth is also pregnant and it does not help the living situation they are living in with the small apartment. Moving into the new house is causing a lot of Mental health too because of discrimination. The welcoming committee has brought a lot of mental heath too the Younger's by trying to buy the house from them and saying that if they move they will be bombed. In too Kill a Mocking bird we can see Jem having Mental challenges after the trial. He can't understand why Tom was guilty because he thought that Atticus showed how Mr. Ewell was guilty and that Tom would be a free man again. But he though wrong, he was devastated by the fact that this happened and that Atticus had to explain to him that because Tom was a black man that he was going to be accused guilty that is just how it works. Discrimination is still showed today and it shows that it is because people are affected mentally, could be depression, anger, fear, etc...

Article from UCLA about Mental Health and Discrimination: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/discrimination-can-be-harmful-to-your-mental-health

Earlier this year, a man by the name of Robert Aaron Long, went on a killing spree at 3 spas in Atlanta, GA, killing multiple people of Asian descent. According to the New York Times, "The man who police say went on a rampage at three spas in the Atlanta area, killing eight people, was charged on Wednesday with eight counts of murder in connection with the attacks. The brazen shootings, which took the lives of six women of Asian descent, stirred considerable outrage and fear in the Asian-American community. Investigators said they had not ruled out bias as a motivating factor even as the suspect denied such racial animus once in custody. The suspect told the police that he had a “sexual addiction” and had carried out the shootings at the massage parlors to eliminate his “temptation,” the authorities said on Wednesday. He also said that he had frequented massage parlors in the past and launched the attacks as a form of vengeance. All but one of the victims were women, the police said"

(Richard Fausset, N. B.-B. and M. F. (2021, March 26). 8 dead in Atlanta spa shootings, with fears of Anti-Asian bias. The New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/17/us/shooting-atlanta-acworth).  

After this event, there were protests, more killings, etc... towards Asian-Americans. It was all over the news, a lot of Asian-Americans were scared, and there was a lot of violence and hatred to start yet another movement against Discrimination, this one being Stop AAPI Hate, a.k.a Stop Asian-American and Pacific Islander Hate.

This is similar to the books, as it shows the clear effect discrimination has on people in the minority group, and what can happen in the aftermath of it.

The type of Discrimination in this are cultural, as it was against Asian-Americans. Half of the people dead were found ethnic Koreans, and the rest were not identified immediately.

this is the news article I found https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/students-called-racial-slurs-bullied-as-critical-race-theory-protests-spill-into-classes-128913989627  

Brooklyn Edwards of North Carolina, her school has recently been teaching crt and students of color have been called slurs right after, just like the trail kids at school were calling Atticus a n-word lover, if someone from the time of the book read this would not know if discrimination has changed at all