Week Four Reflection

For our presentation our main question/ the scope of the project is what it means to be an American. My group decided to take a racial aspect. Our stance on the project is America has raised the majority of  people to be culturally biased towards white people through media production.Throughout this project, We have learned many things. We have learned that America today has raised people culturally biased towards white people, through media productions portray minorities in a negative way. We asked 20 white people and 20 black people to take a Harvard study on whether they have a cultural bias and we found that 12 people had a preference to white people, 7 people had a preference to black people, and one had no preference.  We also learned that the wage gap between white people and minorities has only grown in the last 30 years. The wage gap in 1979 was 18% and now we are close to a 27% wage gap between white people and minorities.  Lastly, we learned that police brutality in America is a large problem for black people.  One statistic shows that African Americans have a 2.7 times higher likelihood of getting killed by police rather white people.

Week Three Reflection Vlog

What it Means to be an American Project

This week for our "What it Means to be an American" project we accomplished several things. One major thing we accomplished was getting another interview with one of our group member's dad. Again, in this interview Nick discussed with his father racism, how racism has affected his life, and how it has affected his relationships over the years.

Research for this Week

We also gathered more research that shows racism/ inequality in the work place. The research from the article I read from CNN News states "racial gender gap is worse than it was 40 years ago.  The article goes more in depth with statistics asserting that "blacks make 27% less than the common white man where as 40  years ago the wage gap was only 18%. The group has also started to make a presentation, which shows what the group has accomplished throughout the entire project.