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).

Laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s (Britannica 2017).

This website shows the first U.S. memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow (2018).

The SPLC fights for for racial justice in the South. Teacher resources can be found on the site Learning for Justice (2021).