Essays on Racial Profiling

Everyone can say they face or have faced personal challenges and have had concerns, but not everyone can say they’ve been through slavery or discriminated against simply by the way they look or by the history they are carrying on their shoulders, the history of...

In today’s world we live in a very media driven manner. The media can sway people’s attitudes towards a certain direction depending on the circumstances. Racial Profiling is a very sensitive topic every individual can relate to. It is known as the inclusion of racial...

Racial profiling is a practice used by law enforcement which targets minorities for interrogation and searches without evidence of criminal activity and solely based on race. Many believe it disregards the American Constitution, especially the 4th and 14th amendments, and causes harm or even the...

People who are pulled over the most tend to have a darker skin tone. Racial profiling has been a debated about argument since the beginning of slavery, and although the days of calling our white slave owners master is long gone, we are still a...

In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander argues that racial profiling in policing is indeed a prevalent issue in today’s society. She cites racial profiling in policing as a factor contributing to the continued mass incarceration of African Americans and reflecting the existence of a...

“Black Lives Matter” is a slogan used by many Black people with the intent to broaden “the conversation around state violence” by informing people “of the ways in which Black people are intentionally left powerless at the hands of the state” (blacklivesmatter.com). As seen by...

The American dream has been portrayed as something that can be accomplished by anyone in order to gain success in America regardless of race, skin tone, and cultural background as long as they have the ambition to acquire that success. What is not made public...

Many movies focused around the theme of racism often show how racist characters are able to change. From start to end, racist characters grow and change their mindset to become more accepting of different races. They begin to see people for who they really are...

Luis Valdez, the author of the play, Zoot Suit, introduces the struggles of being a Mexican American during World War II. Valdez writes about a real-life incident associated with the Sleepy Lagoon murder court case and how many Pachucos were being intentionally prosecuted because they...

Just Mercy highlights the importance of resistance to injustice. It describes the racism, corruption, and cruelty that exists in the American court systems and lead to the systematic abuse of African Americans. As Bryan Stevenson said, “The opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite...

Racial profiling is the act of targeting an individual for the suspicion of crime based on the individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality. Imagine being wrongfully committed of a crime that you did not commit. Imagine being followed around because the color of your skin...

Introduction Police prejudice and racial profiling is responsible for many false arrests, convictions, and death of African Americans. It is a difficult and unfortunate part of life that certain groups of human beings must face these so called obstacles in their life because they are...

Racial discrimination and inequality continue to be an issue. Despite the advances we make in our society in terms of race, racial prejudice is something that cannot be abolished. Conflict with discrimination is evident when we look at the issue of racial profiling. Racial profiling...

Racism in the 21st century is not as same as in the Colonial Era, while in the Colonial Era racism concerned as supremacy over a race today with the globalization it is more like an ethnic prejudice and aftermaths of past racist acts. Indeed, there...

Racial profiling rises as a controversial issue among the most doubtful issues in the United States of America and in addition different parts of the world significantly more so in the created countries. Essentially, it incorporates the usage of the ethnicity, race or nationality of...

The criminal justice system is more likely to convict an African American or Mexican on more severe consequences than a Caucasian. Racial disparity is a major issue in today’s world as often individuals are often not held to the same standard across the board. Often...

Introduction I have always been skeptical of the United States’ criminal justice system, and accordingly, the system is anything but just. The discontent involves the treatment of African-Americans in the country and the rising cases of discrimination and prejudice directed towards people of color. The...

Racial profiling is a continuous, concerning problem in the United States of America. It occurs on a daily basis, in cities and states all over the country. Police officers tend to apply racial profiling by relying solely on an individual’s race, ethnicity, religion, or national...

The thinking of race is ubiquitous but tricky; people assume race is apparent because of the quick visualization one can make based on distinctive color and physical appearance. Yet there is plenty extra than meets the eye. Sociologist relate to race as a social construction....

In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, author Michelle Alexander delves into the troublesome topic of social control mechanisms through the lens of race. Alexander, a professor of law at Ohio State University and joint-appointee at the Kirwan Institute of...

In Bill Quigley’s article, “18 Examples of Racism in the Criminal Justice System,” he introduces the topic of racial profiling by displaying the statistics of criminal offences by the African Americans compared to the whites. The population of the African Americans in the United States,...

The book is separated into four parts. In the initial segment, we went to Bermingham, Alabama, where Tanner Colby grew up and went to class to see how the Supreme Court chose Brown v. the Education Committee (1954) to legalize the disconnection of the school....

Have you ever noticed that race plays a major part in some peoples lives? In the story, Desiree’s Baby, you will see how race affects a relationship between the mother and father of a mixed baby. The protagonist is a white woman named Desiree who...