"Mixed Blood” In this article the author intends to demonstrate that the idea of race is only a social/cultural development and a myth. The idea that individuals divided into particular race based on their "biological differences" is a fantasy it’s a myth, everything is just in our heads we have just created it as a community/society, race is not a thing that was always here, it’s only been here since humans have. And the author does a very good job explaining this with good scientific and historical facts that no one can disagree too. This article helped me realize the author’s message (of race just being in our heads), this is not something that I would have really thought about ever if it wasn’t for this article.…
He shows through his book that race is a ‘recent social and political construction” (Graves Jr. 1). He wants to show the reader that there is no scientific support to separate humans into races. I agree with him that people are not born to view race. It is something learned through the social atmosphere and practiced through generations.…
Omi and Winant I. Racial Formations A. Susie Guillory Phipps vs. The State of Louisiana 1. Susie Guillory Phipps sued the state of Louisiana over the right to change her racial classification from black to white 2. Due to state law which states anyone with one-thirty-second “negro blood” in them was to be classified as black 3. Her case was lost and her classification was unchanged B. Racial Categories on Birth Certificates 1.…
Although there are hereditary differences and geographically based genetic variances that produce physical and behavioral deficits among human beings, none of these realities supports the theories for racial classifications and social hierarchy between ethnic groups (Carmill, 1999). Despite the many attempts of our society to identify differences amongst the various races of humans through the analysis of intelligence, behavior, athletic abilities and health, the fact remains that there is no correlation between biology and race. While there are many physical differences between races, approximately 94% of a genetic variation exists in all racial groups. In addition, interbreeding and continued migration attribute to the lack of genetic variation…
In the article “The Dynamics of Racial Fluidity and Inequality” by Saperstein and Penner (2012), supports on the notion that race is a “flexible” tendency that changes throughout the years and across backgrounds, rather than being a characteristic that is attributed at “birth” and “fixed” (as cited in Grusky & Weisshar, 2014 p.692). In order to better understand how racial classification plays an important role over the life course of an individual this paper will analyze the article of Saperstein and Penner (2012), discuss two major concepts that are affecting social inequality, and point out two strengths/weaknesses that helped or hurt the article. Article The study by Saperstein and Penner (2012) focused on how race is typically treated…
Desmond and Emirbayer’s article attempts to elucidate the configuration of race and racial dominance through the lenses of recent theoretical innovations. As oppose to the then predominant perspective on race that portraits it as a natural phenomenon, these authors describe race as a dynamic, and symbolic social construct that evolves and changes historically. These transformation to be understood must be informed by the influence of other social constructs such as ethnicity and nationhood. This summary is a detailed account of the article that bring at the end in support example from Lopez and Alba in their respective articles. The article started by presenting a clear and comprehensive definition of race which makes racial domination…
It was shown that when scientists and anthropologists of the time were studying this topic it was shown that they were rejecting three fundamental premises of a very old racial ideology: “1) The archaic sub species concept, two parentheses the divisibility of contemporary humans into scientifically valid biological groupings and 3) The link between racial traits and social, cultural, and political status.” Mukhopadhyay & Henze also discussed the United States racial categories that are used on the Census. They believed that race as biology was being inconsistently used and that the terms used on the census are partially valid because “the biological attributes used to define races and create racial classifications rely on only a few visible, superficial, genetic traits – such as skin color and hair texture – and ignore the remaining pre-ponderings of human variation.”…
Essay Question: What is the difference between the way race is defined in the United States and in Brazil? List the Brazilian folk taxonomy of "tipos" and how to translate "tipos" into U.S. racial categories. Race is a myth. In another word, what looks like a difference in biological variability, is in fact, merely a difference in cultural classification. Similarly, anthropologist have stressed that U.S. racial groups are American cultural structures that depict the way Americans categorize people, rather than it be “a genetically determined reality (Spradley and McCurdy 200).”…
Jayla Hodges 4 Jayla R. Hodges Professor Bork ENG-101-075 9/24/2017 Synthesize evidence from Fuentes's chapter and McIntosh's article to make an argument explaining how "race still matters" – or does not matter – in the U.S.A. today. Move beyond the issues and examples that Fuentes discusses to extend and/or challenge Fuentes's thinking. Race still matters in the United States, however, it should not be an ongoing issue that continues to separate us from being equal. Social class, education status, sexuality, nationality, and gender are all factors that tend to play a substantial role in our current lives. Race can also be the reason why certain individuals encounter day-to-day advantages and disadvantages.…
The idea of race is as old as recorded history. Race can be defined as “Human constructed categories that assume great social importance. Those categories are typically based on observable traits and geographic origins believed to distinguish one race from another (Ferrante 214).” Along with physical characteristics, skin color being the most common, social characteristics and stereotypes are associated with a race which often go unquestioned or are considered to be obvious, Ferrante refers to this idea as racial common sense (215).…
Race fights, for instance, there are race contrasts in infections and reactions to medicines, alongside contrasts in mind and in ability and capacity in such fields as games. In this manner, they guarantee, race is a legitimate organic idea. Smedley contends that no measure of examination into natural or hereditary contrasts can offer us some assistance with understanding the marvel of race in a culture. Race must be comprehended as a part of the sociocultural area, not the space of science.…
Is the race concept biological or is it socially constructed? All of these questions will have been answered by the end of this paper. In this paper, I will explore how anthropologists in different fields of anthropology view and define race. Most racial studies have been done my biological or physical anthropologists. They study race as a concept; how to define it, how to classify it,…
Why discuss race and racial ideology? Race and racial ideology are important concepts to learn and understand. We unknowingly make rushed judgments about other individuals and groups without a decent understanding of these concepts. Some of those judgments are harmless and have little to no effect on individuals or groups. While other rushed, judgments can have negative attitudes and feelings toward individuals or groups.…
Race is associated with biology of human beings, whereas ethnicity is associated with the origin and culture. An individual coming into a society where his ethnicity and race is unfamiliar, an opportunity is open for both the individual and the population of that society to learn and get to know each other. It is imminent that the people of different racial backgrounds, especially multi-ethnic groups, will face all kinds of stereotypes when coming to a new society that is completely unfamiliar with the physical features, culture, traditions and world view of that ethnic group. However, that can be rectified with positive involvement and communication in different areas of that society. Individuals coming from various ethnic and racial backgrounds…
Storey makes the claim that “…there is just one ‘race’, the human race” (175). Regardless of skin tone, country of origin, or preferred language, we are all equally and irrevocably…