Misrepresentation In Today's Society

This semester I researched misrepresentation and how it is being used in today’s society. Being here at UTA gives me a great opportunity, because, with so much diversity at this university, I can better understand the perspectives of those who are misrepresented. The cause of misrepresentation is when a society wrongly interprets a group based on an attribute they have. This issue is a lead problem all over the world and it is seen in all states, cities, and communities. A problem of representation where people feel different and unequal. How important is representation you say? Here is Stuart Hall a Cultural Theorist on the matter “The emphasis on culture is important because it is those participants in a culture who give meaning to people, …show more content…
They feel it is unfair that even today people are discriminated primarily because of the color of their skin or their gender. Discrimination of one’s skin color is racial discrimination, which leads them to ask one question. How do we define racism? Ahmed Shawki, an author who wrote on black liberation and socialism writes, “But racism is not simply the result of the dominance of the ruling class ideology in the government, media, and schools. There is a material basis for racism built into capitalist competition” (Orelus, xi). Many might question the way Shawki defines racism, but then how do you explain incidents like Professor Delgado where he explains “I have been stopped by university police for merely looking out of place in the law building during evening hours. The incident had nothing to do with my income or class, but with my color and race” (Orelus, 3). Now those who are discriminated believe racial discrimination is big but not the only thing being discriminated in a sense they fell that women are also dealing with issues that males hardly deal with. “Some of his male privileges include not having to worry about being raped and a victim of domestic violence as often as women; not having to worry about being sexually harassed at work and in school as often as women, and not having to constantly fight so that his voice can be heard because his colleagues do not take …show more content…
They say integration has led to the mistreatment of people in this country. Integration opponents feel that integration is the mixture between different people that creates a new outcome. In Rethinking, Race, Class, Language, and Gender, Pierre W. Orelus, an Assistant Professor in the Curriculum and Instruction Department at New Mexico State University, states “Thought out history, race and racism have been used as a socioeconomic and political means to achieve special ends. During slavery, race was a powerful tool used by the whites to oppress and exploit the slave, and though it is over, race has continued to be used in different contexts by dominant groups to oppress marginalized people, such as African-Americans” (Orelus, 1). Orelus believes that racism was created because one race wanted to dominate the other, but others would say otherwise. David Duke, a former member of the KKK says,” Massive immigration and low European American birthrates coupled with integration and racial intermarriage threatens the continued existence of our very genotype. We assert that we, as do all expressions of life on this planet, have the right to live and to have our children and our children’s children reflect both genetically and culturally our heritage” (David, 1). Duke believes that integration threatens his kind and is the reason he is against