This essay focuses on Our Educational Apartheid.. Does anything you read or listened to this week sound familiar?  Like something you’ve seen in your own life.

Our Educational Apartheid

Read this article, titled “Our Educational Apartheid” and make a connection. The article and the podcast you listened to this week.   How do they support each other?   . Does anything you read or listened to this week sound familiar?  Like something you’ve seen in your own life?  Explain.   How does educational privilege create a “ripple effect” that can last for generations?   How can individual students help themselves overcome some of these effects? http://www.reimaginerpe.org/files/Jonathan%20Kozol%20-%20Our%20Educational%20Apartheid.pdf

Apartheid (South African English: /əˈpɑːrteɪd/; Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦɛit], segregation; lit. “aparthood”) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 until the early 1990s.^{[note 1]} Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (or white supremacy), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation’s minority white population.^[4] According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Asians and Coloureds, then black Africans.^[4] The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day.^[5][6][7]

Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineate into petty apartheid.

Entailed the segregation of public facilities and social events, and grand apartheid. Which dictated housing and employment opportunities by race.^[8] Prior to the 1940s, some aspects of apartheid had already emerged in the form of minority rule by white South Africans and the socially enforced separation of black Africans from other races, which later extended to pass laws and land apportionment.^[9][10] Apartheid was adopted as a formal policy by the South African government after the ascension of the National Party (NP) during the 1948 general elections.^[11]

A codified system of racial stratification began to take form in South Africa under the Dutch Empire in the eighteenth century, although informal segregation was present much earlier due to social cleavages between Dutch colonists and a creolised,

ethnically diverse slave population.^[12]

With the rapid growth and industrialisation of the British Cape Colony, racial policies and laws which had previously been relatively relaxed became increasingly rigid, discriminating specifically against black Africans, in the last decade of the 19th century.^[13] However, The policies of the Boer republics were also racially exclusive; for instance, the Transvaal’s constitution barred black African and Coloured participation in church

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