Today’s racial climate is just as turbulent as it was decades ago; however, the key difference is that legal racism has changed to psychological discouragement and structural violence cause by a system based on economic standing. There have been calls for a new civil rights movement to further racial justice. I want to first take a trip back in time and slowly work our way to the present; tracing our way through how colored dolls reshape a gloomy racial canvas. The topic of conversation revolves around how simple experiments proved that self-perception and self-confidence varies based on race. This idea helps demonstrate the purpose of the paper, which is to track how racism and different identities impact the psychology of specific individuals.
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The video revolved around the standards of beauty, established by whiteness and blackness. Davis focused on the superficial characteristics of the human condition, such as beauty and elegance. She repeated the original Clark Doll Experiment and her results were very similar to the original findings. The majority of the subjects chose the white doll as the one that was more beautiful and more desired than the black one. This experiment is perhaps the most shocking because it was only conducted twelve years ago. Furthermore, it was conducted more than forty years after the Civil Rights Act, which demonstrates that erasing prejudice from our laws does not erase them from our …show more content…
The need for confidence is crucial in advance in society because to get to the next level you need to believe in yourself first. The structure of race has set up certain races to fail, while other races prosper on this design. This system has not changed much in practice even though the laws have. Over the last seventy years and the last three pages, three separate social experiments have demonstrated the importance of self-esteem in the racial system. Those who have it seem to reap the rewards of society, such as benefits, wealth, and the chance to set the social standard. This standard cannot be measure in monetary value because it is the ability to dictate who has a successful life and who gets to stay in the cycle of poverty. The social standard was once facilitated through race and segregation, but now it has shifted to class and structural violence. The most important part of structural violence is to keep the status quo. By preventing changes to class structure, the majority can dictate the future for all races. By using class divisions to disadvantage specific races by attacking their own self-image, the white majority can keep themselves out of the cycle of
The video revolved around the standards of beauty, established by whiteness and blackness. Davis focused on the superficial characteristics of the human condition, such as beauty and elegance. She repeated the original Clark Doll Experiment and her results were very similar to the original findings. The majority of the subjects chose the white doll as the one that was more beautiful and more desired than the black one. This experiment is perhaps the most shocking because it was only conducted twelve years ago. Furthermore, it was conducted more than forty years after the Civil Rights Act, which demonstrates that erasing prejudice from our laws does not erase them from our …show more content…
The need for confidence is crucial in advance in society because to get to the next level you need to believe in yourself first. The structure of race has set up certain races to fail, while other races prosper on this design. This system has not changed much in practice even though the laws have. Over the last seventy years and the last three pages, three separate social experiments have demonstrated the importance of self-esteem in the racial system. Those who have it seem to reap the rewards of society, such as benefits, wealth, and the chance to set the social standard. This standard cannot be measure in monetary value because it is the ability to dictate who has a successful life and who gets to stay in the cycle of poverty. The social standard was once facilitated through race and segregation, but now it has shifted to class and structural violence. The most important part of structural violence is to keep the status quo. By preventing changes to class structure, the majority can dictate the future for all races. By using class divisions to disadvantage specific races by attacking their own self-image, the white majority can keep themselves out of the cycle of