My American Dream

My focus for Project #3 are the potential barriers to the American Dream through segregation. My topic is centered around the accessibility of the American Dream and the ways the American Dream has been kept out of reach of minorities. In other words, I am focusing on how racial discrimination has limited opportunities to achieve the American Dream. Additionally, I will examine how segregation may have impacted the pursuit of the American Dream. My context is race and the effects of segregation. I have split my paper up into three sections: segregation in regard to occupational limitations, educational barriers, and housing discrimination. I focused on chapter four, "Dreaming in Black and White", from  American Dream in the 21st Century. From this chapter, I learned that racial segregation is still a major problem facing American citizens. This chapter explains how the emergence of suburbia has aided in discrimination in housing and residential communities.  The context of