Even though slavery was abolished with the 13th Amendment, blacks in the South were still subjected to harsh and unfair treatment throughout the latter half of the 19th century and well into the 20th century. In fact, it would be more than a century Continue Reading...
Firmin / Gobineau etc. Is race a construct of the Enlightenment? Obviously the European encounter with a racially-constructed "other" begins a long time before the Enlightenment, with Montaigne's cannibals and Shakespeare's Caliban. But the Enlighte Continue Reading...
Morrison is simply showing how race matters even when we think that it might not. We might think that Maggie's race, whether she was partially white or not, would not amount too much in a bunch of children but it matters a great deal. Labels turn ou Continue Reading...
Race Standards From a substantive point-of-view, "Race/Ethnicity and the 2000 Census: Implications for Public Health" details the changes made in the terms of public health record keeping as mandated by the 1997 revised U.S. Office of Management an Continue Reading...
Diallo's case is just one of the numerous instances wherein racial profiling has become a standard among law enforcement officers. The article cites how, at present, colored people are given 'top priority' when it comes to identifying possible susp Continue Reading...
Talking Race and RacismIf race is a system of power designed to benefit some at the expense of others, as Ijeomo Oluo (n.d.) states in her speech at Google, maybe we shouldnt be talking about race at all? Why talk about a subject that is only there i Continue Reading...
g., a magnet school), and also in terms of the various percentages of whites; African-Americans; Asians; and Latino (a)s attending each high school. According to Solorzano and Ornelas (Feb/Mar 2004) their study of advanced placement high school enrol Continue Reading...
Socioeconomic Causes and Effects of Racism Racism is directly caused by the belief that some races or groups are superior to others. In most cases, racism is based on the false idea that different physical characteristics, such as the color of one' Continue Reading...
John Burdick in “The Lost Constituency of Brazil’s Black Movements” questions the narrative that race mixing, or mestizaje, is a solution to the problem of race in Brazil. Burdick states that “in Brazil the social perception o Continue Reading...
Polygenism, which posits that humans stem from a diversity of races and, therefore, have distinctions, is the converse of monogenism that posits that all of humanity is from one undifferentiated origin. Whilst it is true that we each have our distin Continue Reading...
Race on Sentencing in Capital Punishment Different nations and states have the crime categories that they categorize as worth the death penalty, these, in most cases are crimes that are considered to be serious and are directly against humanity or Continue Reading...
Racism in professional sports has been documented for decades. However, only in recent years has it been more noticeable. The recent ‘Take the Knee’ Movement ahs sparked outrage on both sides as people fight for equality and others fight Continue Reading...
Race as it Relates to Your Community Being a member of a diverse community enables a person to develop in a series of ways as he or she interacts with a large variety of people and as he or she both allows their influences to shape his or her perso Continue Reading...
Invisible Man and The Hate U Give Ellison’s Invisible Man and Thomas’s The Hate U Give are two very different books on race. Ellison’s novel is mainly pessimistic and negative (though realistically so) while Thomas’s young adu Continue Reading...
Invisible Man 1 Race is experienced in Invisible Man in a variety of ways. In the beginning of the book, the narrator describes himself as “invisible”—as being flesh and bone and yet going unseen by people. He goes unseen because he Continue Reading...
He mentions all of humanity's beginning in Africa, playing off the idea that the only reason there are physical differences between human beings is because of the environmental conditions we evolved in were different based on proximity. That does no Continue Reading...
Q1. What does diversity mean to you? After watching the videos and reading the article, has your definition changed. In what ways?Before watching the videos and reading the articles, I would have thought of diversity primarily in terms of inclusion, Continue Reading...
In conclusion, it becomes clear from reading this enlightening essay that the English language is peppered with racial stereotypes and slurs, even in words and phrases that seem quite harmless. The question remains. Is this intentional? Were many E Continue Reading...
The media greatly influences and shapes the society’s knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and worldviews about diverse topics. Much of what different audiences within the society know and are concerned about is shaped by narratives, symbols, and Continue Reading...
The lack of a critical analysis of race created a divide between feminist and black activists, as chronicled in the words of feminist and scholar Beverley Guy-Sheftall: "Coming out of the Civil Rights era, black feminism was a contentious, debatabl Continue Reading...
Taking a Knee and the Cultural Problem at the Heart of Race Introduction The recent riots over the death of George Floyd has stemmed not so much from the killing of an unarmed black man by police but rather from the perception that the black communit Continue Reading...
Preconceptions about race prevented the white Australians from accurately assessing the needs, motivations and behaviors of Aboriginals by giving the white Australians a bias in their own minds that served as an agonist towards the race that was diff Continue Reading...
Disturbing reports from the Pew Research Center indicate that race-related wealth disparity is not shrinking but growing. Even though all ethnic groups surveyed are earning less, the decline in household incomes and net worth was significantly greate Continue Reading...
race & arrest rates? Black arrests vs. white arrests The higher frequency of black arrests has been taken to a whole new level as Criminal Justice System is deemed predisposed towards minorities. Primary focus is on two questions here: Is the Continue Reading...
Racism, colorism, prejudice, discrimination, and/or implicit bias are all strategies for devaluing a particular group of individuals. Racism is a social concept that most adults learn as they grow. Looking at children one can see that they do not per Continue Reading...
Birmingham Campaign of 1963 and the Civil Rights Movement Since the end of the Civil War and the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery in America, equal rights for African Americans was one of the anticipated outcomes. Yet, Continue Reading...
Introduction This paper aims to appraise the document submitted to the United States Supreme Court by the American Sociological Association (ASA) on a Michigan Law School case. This paper presents a summary of the argument maintained by the ASA. This Continue Reading...
How Racism and Discrimination Affects ‘Civil Rights’ and Student Rights Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another. It can result in prejudice and discrimination towards people based on their ethnicity and color. Discrimina Continue Reading...
Racism and Police ViolenceCant you just shoot them? Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump in response to Black Lives Matter racial justice protesters exercising their lawful First Amendment rights, Summer 2020The epigraph above reflects one prominen Continue Reading...
Women's Oppression, Racism, Colonialism And Feminism "The Committee is concerned that women's access to justice is limited, in particular because of women's lack of information on their rights, lack of legal aid, the insufficient understanding of th Continue Reading...
That would be nice to think about, anyway, because the alternative, a future filled with vapid, self-centered, and spoiled "princesses" is difficult to comprehend or hope for. Celebrity Culture If there is one aspect of American culture that is di Continue Reading...
Introduction Race has always been a cultural factor in the U.S. and it is certainly a factor in today’s criminal justice system. James (2018:30) has shown that current “research on police officers has found that they tend to associate Afr Continue Reading...
RR Black and LatinoGive an OpinionThere is a lot of focus on racial identity in Black and Latino by Roberto Santiago. He looks black but he has a Latino name and speaks Spanish. Racially, he is a mixture of different ethnicities, so it is not strange Continue Reading...
Robert Miles, the construction and subsequent discourse of "race" is a complex, dynamic sociological phenomenon. Representations of the Other as distinct from the Self do serve specific psychological, political, and economic purposes. For instance, Continue Reading...
Sociology Culture of Poverty Theory The culture of poverty theory as posited by Lewis (1969) asserts the emergency of this particular culture when groups or populations that was economically and socially marginalized and disenfranchised from capita Continue Reading...
Chesnutt and "The Wife of His Youth" Chesnutt's conceptualization of skin color in "The Wife of His Youth" reflects the class dynamics of racial uplift at the turn of the twentieth century by showing her the "whiter" one is, the more likely one is t Continue Reading...
Plea Bargaining and the For Profit Prison Industrial Complex Any discussion of systemic racism in America would be incomplete without mentioning how race impacts the criminal justice system. It should not be surprising to anyone to hear that the blac Continue Reading...
