Inequality In The Promised Land Summary

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According to Brenda Allen in her book Difference Matters, social class is associated with the allocation of power and resources. It is a stratification system that is one of the biggest predictors of academic achievement. It is widely held in the US that the more financial, cultural, and social capital (Bourdieu) you have, the more likely you will get a better quality education that will lead to a higher paying job. In the the book Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling, R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy analyzes the issue of why wealthy, white families are able to access more suburban school district’s educational resources than poor, Black families. In this book, he examines the schooling experiences of White and …show more content…
Another would be poor, working-class Black parents do not have as much time as wealthy, White parents to dedicate to their children’s education. In extra-curricular activities, wealthy, white parents’ involvements are more welcomed by working-class Black parents’. Because of the difference in resources, financial capital, and access to information of these families, it is likely that inequality in quality and quantity of educational opportunities are reproduced all across schools the …show more content…
Even though they are both considered as members of the middle-class, Idris seems to have more capital because both of his parents are successful professionals who are Ivy League graduates. Seun’s parents do not have the prestigious Ivy League background that Idris’s parents do, but they are graduates of Bingham University. His mother, Stacey is a nurse care manager and his father Tony is a systems engineer. Idris’s parents are seen as being stricter on Idris to perform well in school. Even though both families seem to be concerned about academics, Seun’s parents (who work more than Idris’s parents) seem to be more laid back in terms of academic performance. This is not a direct result of financial income I believe, but a result of how each individual boy was performing academically and socially in school. The bottom line is that both boys had the advantage of going to a prestigious school to reap the benefits of a first-class education. It is because of a combination of their race and class status that they faced explicit and implicit forms of discrimination. Their lack of resources (lacking more than their White, wealthy peers) and social identities reinforce what dominant ideologies of identity are prized in the US. Those that fall outside the dominant group are stigmatized and both racially and economically disadvantaged as a
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