Race and gender plays a big role on society. Society’s expectations cause problems for many individuals. I am the stereotypical male that doesn’t have to deal with problems in race and gender that many other people have to. Betsy Lucal’s and Devon Carbado’s pieces help show the problems with gender in society today. Peggy Mcintosh and Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayers pieces talk about the role that race plays in our daily lives. Using readings by scholarly writers I will be showing how I take race and gender for granted every day. Betsy Lucal’s article titled “What it Means to be Gendered Me”, is about herself talking about how the gendered system had consequences on herself. Lucal is a female who has been called “sir” and her use of
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She has to deal with the consequences of gender for people who do not follow the “rules”. She argues that there is no social place for whom is neither male or female. She also argues that we automatically place each individual into one of the two exclusive gender groups. Lucal brings up a great point and says that people who follow the norms of gender take their gender for granted. I definitely take mine for granted. I am a stereotypical male and I don’t have any problems that Lucal endures. Lucal has the trouble of people looking at her as the opposite gender. When using her credit card, clerks look at her name on the back and are worried that the card was stolen. Little things like using your credit card are what I take for granted with the way I look. I never have troubles in life with these types of actions because I define myself and look like a male. Additionally, Lucal believes that she is treated differently. She thinks that when people think she looks like a man she is treated with more …show more content…
Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayers piece titled “What is Racial Discrimination?”, is about how race and ethnicity reflects discrimination and power. Desmond and Emirbayers describe that the world comes to you. You don’t choose what race you are. They define race as a symbolic category based on a phenotype or ancestry. It is something that is created and recreated by human beings. I am partly Jewish because of my ancestry. My grandpa is Jewish so that makes me party Jewish because of him. Race is also based on phenotype. Phenotype is his or appearance and constitution including skeletal structure, height, hair texture, eye color, and skin tone. I am about 5’9 with very thick short brown hair, brown eyes and I am also white. My race is a Partly Jewish white male because of my ancestry. Desmond and Emirbayer argue that there are different historical contexts around the world. Many groups were organized in each country in the 1990’s and 2000’s. With immigration it was way easier for whites to enter the United States. The history of America’s immigration shows the intimate conception between race and ethnicity. Additionally, Desmond and Emirbayer talk about racial domination. Whites have had many opportunities while others have suffered. I take being white for granted because of the disadvantages that other races have. Domination in society is very evident in society
She has to deal with the consequences of gender for people who do not follow the “rules”. She argues that there is no social place for whom is neither male or female. She also argues that we automatically place each individual into one of the two exclusive gender groups. Lucal brings up a great point and says that people who follow the norms of gender take their gender for granted. I definitely take mine for granted. I am a stereotypical male and I don’t have any problems that Lucal endures. Lucal has the trouble of people looking at her as the opposite gender. When using her credit card, clerks look at her name on the back and are worried that the card was stolen. Little things like using your credit card are what I take for granted with the way I look. I never have troubles in life with these types of actions because I define myself and look like a male. Additionally, Lucal believes that she is treated differently. She thinks that when people think she looks like a man she is treated with more …show more content…
Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayers piece titled “What is Racial Discrimination?”, is about how race and ethnicity reflects discrimination and power. Desmond and Emirbayers describe that the world comes to you. You don’t choose what race you are. They define race as a symbolic category based on a phenotype or ancestry. It is something that is created and recreated by human beings. I am partly Jewish because of my ancestry. My grandpa is Jewish so that makes me party Jewish because of him. Race is also based on phenotype. Phenotype is his or appearance and constitution including skeletal structure, height, hair texture, eye color, and skin tone. I am about 5’9 with very thick short brown hair, brown eyes and I am also white. My race is a Partly Jewish white male because of my ancestry. Desmond and Emirbayer argue that there are different historical contexts around the world. Many groups were organized in each country in the 1990’s and 2000’s. With immigration it was way easier for whites to enter the United States. The history of America’s immigration shows the intimate conception between race and ethnicity. Additionally, Desmond and Emirbayer talk about racial domination. Whites have had many opportunities while others have suffered. I take being white for granted because of the disadvantages that other races have. Domination in society is very evident in society