Running Head: POLITICS & RACISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Running Head: POLITICS & RACISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
POLITICS & RACISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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POLITICS & RACISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
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Introduction
Higher Education in United States of America is a big component with political features
embedded in it with the social and economic conditions like income class and the family size.
How can an education system be biased under the theme of racial discrimination? Is the
education only a by-product of political framework?
Thus, the paper aims to synthesize how corruption has dominated the educational
infrastructure through the racial biasness and slavery of other communities. The paper focuses on
how these factors affect the students and their learning inadequacies with respect to the nation
functioning and learning structure of economy through the readings of Sanford’s ‘The New
Liberal Arts’ and Michelle’s ‘The New Jim Crow-Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness”.
Discussion
Socio-economic biasness leads to a distorted education system. Sanford holds the
opinion that “We cannot assign different socio-economic groups to different levels or different
types of education” how diverse groups from different cultures are not meant to collaborate and
study in the same universities. This is a highly political issue of keeping the immigrant and
lower-economic classes detached from the higher education. Michelle confronts it by stating that
“The most comprehensive studies of racial bias in the exercise of prosecutorial and judicial
discretion involve the treatment of juveniles by portraying the factor of how the biased treatment
among the juveniles make them suffer from pursuing higher education. Thus, the acceptance of
black people in universities of USA and mostly belonging from the juvenile group are not
entertained in the educational degree attainment.

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The worth of education system in USA is a low priority. According to Michelle “The
young men who go to prison rather than college face a lifetime of closed doors, discrimination,
and ostracism” in the sense that these young minds are restricted to pursue their career education
and this plight is not communicated to the public through media. This is agreed upon by Sanford
also stating “The best way to understand genuine national priorities is to follow the money, and
by that standard, education is really not at all that important to this country”. He believes that
the American system of education does not take into account the educational structure decisions
in serious terms but only concerned about high quality national output. These racial caste system,
I feel it is a normal phenomenon where the young students trapped in their cages for skin-color
are not vocalized and taken as an important consideration to focus on by the American
Government.
The liberal education in career holds power in shaping the nation. According to
Sanford “This is a country where a mixed-race child raised overseas by a struggling single
mother who confronts impossible odds can grow up to be a president. It is precisely liberal
education that allowed him to catch up and move on”. He feels that American society is much
open to the mixed races and communities in terms of choosing its democratic leader. However,
to become a leader and rule the nation, liberal education make an individual perfect for this role,
stressing the importance of philosophies and liberal values being dominant to politics. Michelle
shares his opinion against such fact by stating that “Throughout the criminal justice system, as
well as in our schools and public spaces, young + black + male is equated with reasonable
suspicion... thousands of African Americans every year, as well as their exclusion from