...We need to figure out what we can do as a society to fix these issues with race in today’s modern world. There are many key components to race, but we need to focus on the ones that truly matter. Those issues could have solutions for solving race and ethnicity problems. One key issues with race is that race determines people’s opportunities in life and it affect what you can and can’t do. In order for this issue to go away there needs to be a solutions that could solve it or at least eliminated the problem to the point where it’s barely noticeable or exists. The only way that it could possibly permanently go away is by having companies get rid of their certain social qualities like race and ethnicity. However, there is one problem with this solution that I came up with and that is: If companies were to completely get rid of those social qualities from their application requirements then the company could lose their control over how their company is portrayed and run. I know for...
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...Race and Why It Is UNimportant Race plays a very important role in our lives. It seems like everyday there is another story on the news that reiterates the idea that someone's race is what makes them who they are. It is their identity. Their soul. And any attack or privilege that happens to them, stems from their race.But what about someone's work ethic, attitude, or intelligence. Could these not also explain the reason why a person is successful or a failure? Or is race the only factor that plays a part in the success of someone? With so many opposing arguments it is hard to understand what is fact and what is fiction, when it comes to discussions on race. With that being said, I believe that race does not matter because leading african-americans...
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...called vice.com there is an article called “This Is What it's Like to Be a Mixed-Race Girl on Tinder” written by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff. A girl named Charlie found that her matches were more interested in her ethnicity than anything else. Charlie says “I'm black caribbean and white” but she is only recognized as being black because of her skin tone. With this information with online dating people like charlie sees this as an outlook people date with their own races and take people outside of their race as a joke or being with them to “try something new”. In the article “Are Mixed-Race Children Better Adjusted” written by John Cloud it is shown that children can see things through different points of view while being mixed raced. In the article it was known that children who grew up mixed raced was either found to be white or black and they would have a hard time with their identities. But with that being said studies have shown that if you pick one of the races in which you are rather than both you will be well adjusted...
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...Race: The Cultural and Political Power of an Illusion in Latin America Race has been the most arguable and controversial subject in Latin American history. Since 16th century it has created a great deal of prejudice among Latin American people, it has been referred, as biological characteristics later modified to a social statue such are education, wealth and language. It has been under a heavy influence of cultural and political power where people were classified from their biological characteristics to their wealth. Through the time race has become the main tool for state creation and regulation. Race has become a status, which has structured and organized the nation but the term “race” has never itself been stable. In today’s Latin America modern theory of “race” has meaning of a political power, status and regulation, it’s a states way of monitoring and controlling of the heterogeneous nation. Race gradually has become a political cultural and economic power for Latin American state. In this paper I will argue about the idea that race in Latin America gradually has became just an illusion, a tool by which people were controlled structured and manipulated. Various articles will be presented to support and illustrate the transformation of the word “race “ and its cultural and political influence on Latin America. I will talk about the colonial to republic period idea of “race “ In Latin America and how the meaning of the word was manipulated. I will discuss the colonial...
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...person or group may not like another race. Thus, people harass and hurt each other whether physically, emotionally, or mentally. Racism can be seen in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez, where in both books whites are portrayed to be superior then the rest. For example in the 1920’s the whites thought that they were the superior race. Till today many different races look down on each other. Quinonez 2000 novel Bodega Dreams shows us how our race could determine how we are treated in society. The novel talks about the real life of Spanish Harlem neighborhoods. The Great Gatsby was a story told by Nick...
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...altering preservice teachers beliefs and practice with antiracist pedagogy. The author defines antiracist teaching as personal and pedagogical work that serves as an ally and advocate for students of color. Other research also indicates that teachers need to be taught how to become antiracist educators, and need opportunities to gain knowledge about race and racism in regards to their identities and others. This study addresses that the same attention and focus on the beliefs and practice on preservice teachers should be on teacher educator’s beliefs and practices. Sociocultural, historical and political position has an impact on people’s perspectives. It is important to focus on teacher educator’s beliefs and practices because consciously or unconsciously there perspectives are reflected in there teaching methods and resources used in the classroom. This would also limit their ability to effectively address antiracist topics, which put preservice teachers at a disadvantage for...
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...Hector Reyes Minorities in the US Professor Chin 02 February 2016 Summary/Personal Reflection In the article “Origin of the Idea of Race” by Audrey Smedley he talks about the word race. Smedley says in the opening paragraph ““Race” was a recent invention and that it was essentially a folk idea, not a product of scientific research and discovery.” Race was used as a term to allow slavery to exist. The article also discusses how slavery existed before African were ever brought to America as slaves. Before Africans, there were Irish people and poor white people being used as slaves. Irish were used as slaves by the English due to hostile relations in the 13th century. The English even passed laws to enslave poor white people, and using excuses as though they were doing these people a favor. Most slaves of the English were Irish, Poor white people and Indians. The article also says that at the turn of the 17th century demand for labor grew. The Irish and Indians would be build rebellions to oppose strict laws and making them difficult, not good slaves. Due to the high labor demands, slaves had to come from somewhere else. This is where race becomes made up and Africans become the target. According to the article the image of Africans were positives. Africans had a set government were farmers. English though thought they were better laborers and once brought to the New World had nowhere to go. They also were immune to the disease the English carried. The Indians...
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...mainly influenced by race. Although the races are ambiguous to the reader, the main characters Twyla and Roberta deal with an increasingly strained friendship until the two eventually reconcile at an older age. Through the use of first person narration, Morrison presents the issue of race and racism in a controlled, but effective perspective. Twyla’s first person narration is the only view of events we see and in turn becomes our own view. From the beginning of the story when Twyla and Roberta meet we get the sense that there is already a great divide between them, “It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the morning-it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race” (139). We never find out what race Twyla or Roberta is, but this initial introduction shows that at least Twyla is uncomfortable being around Roberta. Is it really important that we know which race is which? Many people, myself included, read this over many times looking for clues that would indicate Twyla and or Roberta’s race. However, the only conclusion I reach is that it is unimportant whether or not we know. The fact that the friendship is interracial is enough to convey the theme. In fact, by not specifying either race it makes the story stronger. It is no longer a story about a white girl and a black girl, but a story about two girls living in a racist time. This ambiguity is another tool used by Morrison to emphasize the role that race plays in our lives...
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...Kucharik 10/22/2017 Seabiscuit Seabiscuit , is a very unique book about an American horse whose name is, you guessed it, Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit became a household name in the horse racing business in the 1930s during the Great Depression. He was a symbol of hope for many Americans during this time. Seabiscuit was the baby of a horse named Swing On. When he was born, he was extremely small, and very ugly, but many thought he had the smarts. The place in which Seabiscuit grew up had absolutely no interest in training him. He is then...
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...history have been recorded. Just like has research has claimed how the world was one big continent at one point then there was a continental drift. People were then mixed into different cultures and “races”. Even dated back to slavery times, Slave masters were sleeping with their slaves which caused multiracial children even when those actions were frowned upon. That is how we have people able to claim numerous of different races because of several reasons. There was once upon a time when people could only mark only one race on applications. After the 20th century was when people were able to start claiming more than one race. It was said by the authors of “Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America” that nearly 7 million Americans, 2.4 percent of the nation’s population were documented as being multiracial. For as long as anyone can remember, those boundaries that kept people separated seem like it would never loosen. It is said that immigration was to help with slacken the strict racial boundaries that the country held on for so long. People that has always been multiracial before it was allowed to choose multiple races, they had to just choose which race that they want to claim. Now it is available for a parent to mark down up to about six different races that their child was born with and including the option of “other”. It was recorded in the 2000 Census, that about one in every forty Americans was registered as belonging to two or more racial groups. Researchers believe...
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...xmazibuko16@gmail.com Xolani Mazibuko xmazibuko16@gmail.com A comprehensive view of South African race relations. A comprehensive view of South African race relations. Race relations in South africa Social Psychology assignment 1 Race relations in South africa Social Psychology assignment 1 Table of contents Contents 1. Introduction: 2 2. The impact of Social cognition and schemas on race relations: 2 3. Role of attribution and attitudes in understanding race relations: 5 4. Impact of prejudice and discrimination on race relations: 7 5. Social influence: how it impacts race relations in South Africa 10 6. Conclusion: 11 Reference list: 12 1. Introduction: When speaking of racial relations, one is referring to types of behaviours which are exhibited by individuals after being in contact or interacting with people of various physical and cultural characteristics. (Balandier, 1956). Race relations debates have very prevalent in countries all over the world, South Africa being no exception. Due to the diverse nature of the county’s population, the topic of race relations still continues to dominate discourse in democratic South Africa. Since 1994, the citizens of South Africa have strived to eradicate racism and hostile racial relations. However, it has not been smooth sailing to move beyond racial lines as a source of division. In fact, the racial nuances still cling on stubbornly as race becomes a daily tormentor, making it very difficult to erode the edifices of racial...
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...Microaggression: “a comment or action that subtly and often unconsciously or unintentionally expresses a prejudiced attitude toward a member of a marginalized group (such as a racial minority)” (Merriam- Webster) Microaggression have become in recent years part of the conversation on race in America. Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric sheds light on microaggression towards people of color in American society. She uses poetry and pictures to weave a story about race in America today. Yet race problems are not something new in human history, in Shakespeare’s Othello named after the main character who is a black man, in an all white society. Othello married Desdemona, a white venetian women and around them the plot circles. Microaggression have been part of our society for awhile. These two text show race is two different societies and time periods. Yet the similarities between race relation in each text, begs the question how far we really come in race relations. Citizen and Othello shed light on...
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...maternal side and Honduran on my paternal side. I am a first generation American on my maternal side because my mother was born in Costa Rica and moved to Los Angeles, California when she was ten years old. I am also a first generation on my paternal side as well because my father was born in Honduras and moved to this country later on in life. After reading the article by Michael Omi and Howard Winant, I learned how race was determined in the New World and how with time, the meaning of race changed by many factors such as science, social factors, and “common sense” qualities that people have when meeting people of a different race other than their own. In the New World, Europeans did not know what to call people that looked different than them and decided to outcast these people as “natives”, whom they believed may have not been human beings at all. This idea eventually led to slavery of non-whites. I agree with the authors about the idea of “racial etiquette” because race has become a part of who we are and what we go through every day. I know that being Hispanic has many stereotypes such as knowing how to cook well, speaking fluent Spanish, and most likely having Mexican ethnicity. In reality, none of these things define me but I already expect people to believe these ideas and perceptions about me. I also agree that these stereotypes and myths about race can change but the system does seem to be permanent in American culture. I believe white privilege is based on the...
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...Stock Car History Have you ever thought about stock car history and how it grew so big in today’s society? Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mostly in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, New Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. In the US today the big races are the ones done by the professionals, and that is in NASCAR. NASCAR is a sport where men and women can race automobiles that are upgraded for speed and aerodynamics. On some tracks race car drivers can drive up to 200 and 600 miles at speeds of 200 miles an hour. Racing was started by moonshines back in the 1920s where they had to out run the law because they were smuggling alcohol which in there time was banned because of 18th amendment, and...
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...Reconstruction era was an era that started after the civil war. During the era 3 more amendment was created to give african american more civil rights. 13 was created to abolish slavery; 14 was to give them voting right and 15 was created to give people who were born here citizenship, but not people agreed with these now law. The Trail of James Byrd was about a white man dragged a black man to his death attached to the car. The white man thought that the laws were going to be as the 18s about slavery and were not going to search him for the death crime that he committed. The man got arrested, the judge found him guilty and the KKK member was sent to death penalty. Beside that some racial issue we experience today is that police officers...
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