Evidence of Ethnic Inequalities

Question 1

Clark and Drinkwater? Workplace

Answer 1

Men from ethnic minority backgrounds in managerial roles earn up to 25% less than their white counter parts.

Question 2

Labour Market Survey 2004 (workplace)

Answer 2

Whites had lowest unemployment rate at 5%, compared to 11% for Pakistanis.

Question 3

ONS 2014 (workplace)

Answer 3

40% of people from ethnic minority backgrounds live in low income households

Question 4

Wood et al (workplace)

Answer 4

Applications for jobs with white names are 29% more likely to be considered.

Question 5

Coard (education)

Answer 5

Ethnocentric curriculum

Question 6

Racial Disparity Audit (education)

Answer 6

Black Carribbean students are 3x more likely to be expelled than white students.

Question 7

Gillbourne (education)

Answer 7

Afro-Carribbean boys face institutional racism at school and are put into lower sets and entered into lower tier exams. This narrows their future opportunities.

Question 8

Lammy Review (CJS)

Answer 8

Despite making up 14% of the population, BAME men and women make up 25% of prisoners

Question 9

ONS 2017 (CJS)

Answer 9

Stop and search rates are 10x higher for Black ethnic groups than white.

Question 10

Home Office 2017 (CJS)

Answer 10

94% of police officers were white

Question 11

Van Dijk (media)

Answer 11

Ethnic groups are presented in 5 ways in the media: criminals, abnormal, a threat, dependant and unimportant.

Question 12

Children Now 2001 (media)

Answer 12

‘Fair Play’ study on video games. 86% of hereos were white. 86% of black female characters were victims of violence.

Question 13

Moghissi (media)

Answer 13

Muslims are ‘huddled’ together in the media and labelled. Creates moral panics eg ‘Muslim terrorists’.