African Americans and Racial Inequality in the United States:The Unfinished Business “A Socio-Historical Perspective”
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2023
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El Ghalia Kaabeche
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Abstract
Among the domestic issues that shape controversy in American social history is the question
of racial inequality. Although the latter has been the concern of many racial/ethnic groups in
American society, blacks have been, and still are, the most disadvantaged group. The history
of African Americans is a history of social degradation, economic exploitation, and political
deprivation. For African Americans, the question of citizenship rights has always been tied to
the question of race and racial order. The present thesis deals with the issue of African
Americans and persistent racial inequality in the United States. The thesis addresses the issue
in question from a socio-historical perspective. What makes of this research work significant
is the fact that unlike other studies which focused on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s
and 1960s as the end point of the road to equality, this thesis, on the contrary, looks at racial
inequality facing African Americans in the United States as an unfinished business; as a
persistent reality in U.S. society. It focuses on and explores the persistent reality of blackwhite
racial inequality.
This research work attempts to demonstrate that despite the significant
progress made and the fact that the situation of African Americans today is undeniably much
improved compared to the past, the journey to true racial equality has not been accomplished yet.
Black-white racial inequality remains a persistent feature that still characterizes even
twenty-first-century American society.