About Minority Families

Minority families have struggled to emerge out of poverty in America, despite the fact that they are supposed to make up the bulk of the population. The poor working families in America are led by a minority parent. In California, most households led by a working minority parent receive lower incomes than families of the white race. In America, wage disparities between ethnic classes have widened. In this situation, the inequality for minorities is growing as a result of low-wage employment. Furthermore, their occupations have no room for advancement, and they have fewer hours to care for their children. For that reason, the government should offer tax relief to them and support them through raising the minimum wage. Anzia Yezierska is a Jewish American writer who has written texts on the struggle for immigrants living in America. In 1910, she was best known for how she represented the Jewish ghettos in New York with her female immigrant’s experience. In her novel “The Bread Giver, she is seen with a lot of troubles which she has to cope with as a mother, a wife, a teacher. In addition, she has been an author, a translator, as well as a screenwriter (Yezierska 64). Her novel Bread Giver shows a woman who is determined to change her living style through self-belief, and she is ready to alienate herself from her family that conserve culture, and she successfully achieves her goals. She has a very high desire to interrogate the immigrant women through the lens of her life.

Education is the factor that determines the amount of income that one gets because the families with low-income parents are those that parents have not studied their high school diploma. In this case, schools should adjust their education programs so that they can serve the minorities workers better. Such adjustments include providing them with childcare that they can be able to afford and allocating classes at different times of the day as well as in the working sites. In addition, students living illegally in the country should be assisted financially by the government hence reducing minority families in the country. In the novel, Yezierska seen as a little girl who immigrated with her family to New York and settled in the Jewish slums. She drew much on her own life and experiences of her elder sisters as well as her friends. She is described as Sara who watches while her father destroys the dreams of her three sisters and arrange marriages for them which later results to be the worst. The father tried to shutter Sara’s dream, but she rebelled and went out from her home to find work and saved for her education. When she returned to Hester Street, Sara was already the teacher, but she could not stay long with her mother because she died to live he with a very tough decision as to invite her father or to live him in the ghetto (Yezierska 86). Sara was torn between the decisions because she never wanted to live with him because his father would send her back to the world that she escaped. She was afraid of her father rules following the Jewish religious calendar as well as dietary restrictions. In the end, Sara took her father in with her husband as she cannot leave him live in poverty. In this case, she did not escape her father’s traditions that led to problems in the process of becoming an American citizen and her freedom. However, Sara was able to realize her goals and was able to live a better life than her sisters were and was able to understand better the nature of her culture as Jewish-American Immigrants. From the story of Sara it is clear that he minorities are facing serious problem in America due to discrimination.

Bread giver is centered at Sara as she struggles to respect her adoptive country centrally to he father’s restrictions and Jewish customs. She is very much aware of Jewish expectations of a woman to marry and become a mother (Yezierska 265). As a result, Sara fights to create a different direction to make a better future than that her father had mapped for her. She had to go through various types of environment where she had to rent a shared flat for accommodation, but she later achieved her dreams and got her own home. Sara had struggled to get a good living space where she could live her life as she wished. The experiences of Sara are similar to those of all minorities in America and each day they have to bear the pain due to frequent insults. A room where she was not disturbed taking goods from the table when it was time to eat (Yezierska 8). Sara had difficulties in getting a room to rent since Jewish women had to live with their fathers until they get married. However, she was happy as she had enough time for her studies and she was never disturbed by anybody sending her to do house chores.

In the Barbara Jeanne Fields (95), Slavery, Race and Ideology in the

United States of America, it is clear that the black minorities are still suffering discrimination. The argument ”Americans regard people of known African descent or visible African appearance as a race“ (Fields 97). This reveals that racial discrimination is rampant which should be addressed to ensure that everyone s treated equally. Other examples of racial bias include experiences of various individuals in various fields including sports. The sports announcer Jimmy lost his job in the United States for revealing his racial differences before a television audience. In his comments, Jimmy said that there were no reasons to allow black to be coaches of the basketball because they had longer thighs than that of the white’s athletes. In addition, he explained that they got it through breeding that was done during the slave trade. He then said that having black men as coaches would leave nothing for white men in basketball. After that, he was dismissed from the work by the network mainly because of revealing the truth to the citizens that was meant to be kept as a secret. From the above examples highlighted by Babra, slavery, race, and ideology in America is real leading to suffering of the minorities.

In The Fact of Blackness by Frantz Fanon, the black person is referred to as a ”Negro.“ The person telling the story had tried to attain the sources in the world but could not because he was just an object. The black Americans are among the minorities suffering a lot in America due to racial profiling and discrimination. Other people in the surrounding neglected him because of his color. He was not considered as a person and was not welcome on great occasion but minor internal conflicts. The question is why being black is associated with suffering of individuals denying them the right to live a happy life just like their white counterparts. The word negro is irritating to the black Americans ”Look, a Negro!“ (8). This quote reveals the suffering the minority go through for having a dark skin which is considered ugly. The black man does not know when he was described inferior because he had been trying to fight for equality among the American black people and the White American. Black American is discriminated to the extent of frightening the children of the white Americans when they are called Negro. The narrator is left to take care of his body and his race for the sake of his ancestors. He had to live with the fact that he was a Negro and nothing could change that. He, therefore, decided to live his life and be a man among other men.

From the analysis, it is clear that the minority groups living in America suffer a lot due to their skin color. Some of them have resulted to bleaching their skin to look like the white Americans. Instead of appreciating their origin and racial affiliation, the black minorities are trying to hide their identity through plastic surgery and use of skin bleaching agents. The minorities are called irritating names such as Negro which denote their dark colored skin. This is quite humiliating but they have to bear the pain.

Works Cited

Fanon, Frantz. ”The fact of blackness.“ Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology (1952): 15-32.

Fields, Barbara Jeanne. ”Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America.“ New Left Review 181 (1990): 95.

Yezierska, Anzia. Bread Givers. New York: Persea, 1999. Print.