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The Neglected Young, White Males of California

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This 12 page paper argues that the declining rate of white males going to college and the higher rate of incarceration is related. California's attention to the prison population, the future of black youth and the neglect of white males has created this unusual phenomenon. Bibliography lists 13 sources.

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men are being passed over for minorities who have fewer academic credentials due to affirmative action. While in the middle of the twentieth century, the white male dominated the business sector, women and minorities have slowly but surely worked their way into not only the world of executives, but also into professions in medicine and law. It seems that to a great extent the white male has been neglected only because this segment of society had been advantaged for decades or centuries. Although that is admittedly true, there is now a trend where the playing field is not level and white males are neglected. This trend is seen in California and example of this is in its funding of its prison and education systems. When studying the prison system, social scientists all too often focus on the impact that prisons have had in respect to African Americans. They tend to overlook the inadvertent impact that the prison industrial complex has had upon white males. In 1995, the state of California spent more on prisons than on higher education and in the past 30 years, California has built more than 20 prisons but did not even create one more campus for the University of California system (Malveaux, 2001,p.32). The prison building has disturbed the sensibilities of activists and ordinary citizens alike. As Malveaux (2001) sees it, the individuals who are building prisons are planning to keep them filled and it appears that they are planning to divert those who might attend college from higher education, with laws and regulations that tend to deter matriculation (p.32). One little known law that had been passed during the Clinton administration is being strenuously enforced under President Bush (2001, p.32). That is, the regulation ...

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