class race and gender

Introduction

The issue of discrimination by class , race and gender in the society is the subject of hot debates our days . Though most people consider themselves as very tolerant persons , the fast show women and dark-colored people are still discriminated in society . Two books are under analysis in this essay : Dream from my father ' by Barack Obama and We 'll Call You If We Need You : Experiences of Women Working Construction ' by Susan Eisenberg . Both this books are autobiographical written on the base of author 's personal experience . The events on both

br books go back to the time of twenty-thirty years ago . Both of them allow understanding the real situation with the race , class and gender discrimination in the USA in the end of the twenty century

The common ideas in the books of Obama and Eisenberg

The first chapter of Obama 's book describes the very beginning of his career in Chicago . In 1985 Barack Obama arrived to Chicago to work as a community organizer . The history of this city in the second part of the twenty century led to the corruption of the government , the stratification of the society and the high level of unemployment among the lowest-income colored population

After the white flight ' in 1960th (when the whites left areas where non-Whites are settling , mostly for suburbs ) poor districts were left to their own resources . Industry changed and there were not work for low-level workers . City government did not try to change the situation anyway , poor blacks...