Evidence Of Ethnic Disadvantages

Question 1

What are the examples of ethnic minority disadvantages in the workplace?

Answer 1

1. Gov.uk
2. Wood et al
3. Parkin

Question 2

What did the gov.uk say?

Answer 2

• Pakistani and Bangladeshis have the lowest employment rate whereas white other has the highest employment rate

Question 3

What did wood et al say?

Answer 3

• people with names associated with an ethnic minority background would have to make 16 applications before they got a positive response compared with 9 applications for white sounding applicants

Question 4

What did Parkin say?

Answer 4

• ethnic majority use social closure to prevent ethnic minorities from reaching positions of authority and status so face a concrete ceiling in the workplace

Question 5

What are the examples of ethnic minority disadvantages in education?

Answer 5

1. DfE statistics
2. Mirza
3. Gillborn

Question 6

What did DfE statistics say?

Answer 6

• GCSE attainment 8 score shows that 64.2% of Chinese students scored grade 5 and above whereas 39.6% of black Caribbean students scored grade 5 and above

Question 7

What did Mirza say?

Answer 7

• found black Caribbean girls faced institutional racism and negative labelling from teachers yet achieved in education and potentially did not achieve as well as they could

Question 8

What did Gillborn say?

Answer 8

• black Caribbean boys face institutional racism and put into lower sets and entered for lower tiered exams limiting their chances of success

Question 9

What are the examples of ethnic minority disadvantages in the media?

Answer 9

1. Alexander
2. Van dijk
3. Children now fair play

Question 10

What did Alexander say?

Answer 10

• Asian boys criminalised as a result of Islamophobia

Question 11

What did Van dijk say?

Answer 11

• media stereotype black people in 5 ways; criminal, abnormal, threat, unimportant and dependant

Question 12

What did children now-fair play say?

Answer 12

• 86% of heroes were white, 8/10 competitors in sports games were black, Latinos only appeared in sport games and 86% of black female characters weee presented as victims of violence

Question 13

What are examples of ethnic minority disadvantages in relation to crime?

Answer 13

1. The lammy report
2. Hood
3. Social trends survey

Question 14

What did the lammy report say?

Answer 14

• over 40% of young people in custody are from BAME backgrounds, BAME men and women make up 25% of prisoners

Question 15

What did Hood say?

Answer 15

• black men are more likely than white men to receive custodial sentences for offences which have fines or community services as punishments

Question 16

What did social trends survey say?

Answer 16

• black people are almost 7x more likely to be stopped and searched than white people