AHSS*3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Afro-Caribbean, Visible Minority, Social Capital
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Assessing the racialized & ethnic achievement gap: recall american housing segregation by income, us neighbourhoods also segregated by race, with race and income intersecting, this impacts neighbourhood resources, as schools in us funded by local property taxes. Schools in wealthier neighbourhoods tend to have better resources. Schools in poorer neighbourhoods tend to have limited resources which can impact achievement: 88% of white american kids enjoy living in non-poor neighbourhoods, but only 65% of. Canadian-born: only white and chinese second generation immigrants out-earn those canadian born, afro-caribbean, south asian, other asian and other visible minority immigrant earn less (from. 2k to more than 4k: identifying education as a factor in the social determinants of health, charting economic systems of work, examining inequities at work : professional prestige. Canadian sounding names on resumes received more callbacks from recruiters than non- Canadian sounding ones: canadian experience more valued than canadian education, recruiters felt that canadian names = better english language skills.
