The dynamic racial and ethnic strata of both the cities and the suburbs have continuously changed the population composition of the United States. The high degree of social stratification in America can be seen in the 2000 census data, which show a greater level of racial segregation in residential areas of the United States. However since 1990 there has only been a slight decline (Kent et al. 2001).
However, it has been observed that the racial groups have been a subject of conflict and a persistent social exclusion by the American society (Takaki, 1987; Blauner, 1972). These groups have always been distinct in existence from socio-economic status, to residential segregation, and to intermarriage, they maintain and life a lifestyle which is very different from the average American life (Lieberson and Waters, 1988). This gap between the Native white American and minorities is not limited to the notions of a society these minorities since 1965, have been explicitly defined as racial or language minorities and have been awarded with a separate legal status and recognition by the government. The four officially declared minorities are that of African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans (Thernstrom, 1987).
Black women are subjected various racial discrimination. A survey in fall 1995 TIME/CNN poll showed that 56% of blacks compared to 27% of whites had no hope that the discrimination against them will ever stop. Whereas around two-thirds of whites were optimistic that the racial and discrimination will end in America but only 44% of blacks agreed to this notion.
These women benefit in the communities of other minority groups, or in areas where blacks have at par socio-economic status. Most of these women are targets of oppression in regions where they are not in majority and also in regions where they have an inferior socio-political status...............
