Evidence Of Ethnic Minority Disadvantage (Workplace, Education, Media, Crime)

Question 1

Wood et al - Workplace

Answer 1

People with the names associated with an ethnic minority background would have to make 16 applications before they got a positive response

Question 2

Parkin - Workplace

Answer 2

Negatively privileged data group, use social closure to prevent ethnic minorities from reaching positions of authority and status

Question 3

Dfe statistics - education

Answer 3

Chinese – 64.2, Indian – 56.3%, white British – 46.1% and black Caribbean – 39.69%

Question 4

Mirza - Education

Answer 4

Black Caribbean girls and found that these faced institutional racism and negative labelling from teachers

Question 5

Gillborn - Education

Answer 5

Black Caribbean, boys face institutional racism at school, and that they are put into lower set and entered for lower exams and limiting their chances of success

Question 6

Alexander - Media

Answer 6

Agent needs in East London, were unfairly targeted by police, Asian boys were criminal as result of Islamophobia

Question 7

Alexander - Media

Answer 7

Agent needs in East London, were unfairly targeted by police, Asian boys were criminal as result of Islamophobia

Question 8

Van Dijk - education

Answer 8

Representations of ethnic groups in the UK over a 10 year period and found out the media stereotype, black people in five ways e.g. criminal, abnormal threats, unimportant and dependent

Question 9

Children Now fair play - education

Answer 9

Ethnic minorities, all stereotyping, video games, 86% of heroes were white, 8/10 competitors in sports games wear black

Question 10

The Lammy Report - Crime

Answer 10

Over 40% of young people in custody are from BAME background, the number of BAME prisoners also increased from 25% to 41%.

Question 11

Hood - Crime

Answer 11

Black men were more likely than white men to receive custodial sentences for offences, e.g. fines, or community services as punishment