Dear Professor and Classmates, The concept of race is a topic that has not changed much over the many years human have been on this earth. Race by definition is a group of people who share a set of characteristics not always physical characteristics, also it is said that these groups of people share and common bloodline (Conley, 2015). Many sociologists argue that race is a social construction.…
In January, the researcher began her student teaching with the intention of finding out how reading and discussing equality-related literature influences students’ attitudes toward race. She planned to have her students read a few texts with race as a central theme, and she would study their change or stagnation in attitude toward race over the semester through a triangulation process. Her data collection would begin and end with Harvard’s Project Implicit Race IAT, found at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html, and a survey on attitudes toward race, which can be accessed in the appendix. During the research, she would use journal entries to assess her students’ attitudes for change or no change. In total, the research…
Racism has been an important factor in IR since the founding of the field. Given that racism is an important aspect of imperialism, and imperialism was a main focus of early IR theory, racism, it may be said, is foundational to IR. In fact, Paul Reinsch who is considered “one the founding figures of the field of [IR]” focused on national imperialism, while asserting the inferiority of the “Negro race” (Henderson 2013: 3). In this essay, I will discuss how racism has informed IR theory. First, I’ll discuss racism.…
Reflection to Race: Power of an Illusion I can honestly say that growing up, I have not been ignorant to race. However, within a few short weeks of this class and watching supplementary films such as Race: Power of an Illusion, I have gained a further understanding of race: how it came to be and its portrayal throughout societies. Firstly, this basic point is one that was repeated consistently throughout the movie, throughout our textbook, as well as in class: Race is a social construction. However, I like the way that the film expressed it in “The Story We Tell”: “Race is constructed by a society to implement economic goals.”…
I have experience situations that I had special privileges because of my work ethics and not because of my culture. I have been denied several jobs as well that I was aware that I was being discriminated. I have been expose to being on both side of the fence and it has help me grow as person. I also have develop relationships out of side of race that position me to view things differently in life.…
I personally can phantom how, as advanced people, we are still discriminated against one another over such thing like, color. Such claims as black people are always prone to steal, the have great basketball skills, they are illiterate, or white people have good credit, show how far backward we are as a society for such claims often represent one’s class, or living circumstance. But definitely not race! They are found in every individual, regardless of their race. Just like James Baldwin suggests in his reading, we have to travel and experience different culture in order not to be molded by our…
Race is defined as a group of people that share a set of characteristics, typically but not always physical ones, and are said to share a common bloodline. Sociologists often say that race is a social construction. Social construction is a debate about what is real versus fake and more of an explanation of how we give meaning to things or ideas through social interaction. According to sociologist, Dalton Conley, to speak of the myth of race is to say it is a social construction. Race is based on stories we tell ourselves in effort to organize society rather than natural realities.…
Racial disparities begin when offenders are in the process of being sentenced for a drug offensives. Judges don’t look at the punishment itself, but the volume at which the offense occurs can play a factor. It could be someone’s first offense a harsh sentence could possibly be imposed. When it comes to punishing offenders, a judge should disregard their own person biases. It shouldn’t matter which social class an offender comes from.…
In this paper, I will go over three separate situation or dilemmas that demonstrate a cultural class between two socio-cultural groups. The two socio- cultural groups will be the African American and Latinos. What is socio- cultural groups mean, “relating to, or involving a combination of social and cultural factors” (Merriam-webster.com, 2017). The three points are the workplace, misunderstanding or conflict between different nationalities, religious or, ethnic groups and the differences in cultural practice. This paper would go into detail and explaining the dilemma or the misunderstanding of culture groups especially African American and Latinos.…
Everyone in their life has stereotyped another race or ethnicity. Some can be general knowledge and some can be things we have heard about them either from the media or an encounter you had with a someone part of the race or even ethnicity. Racial stereotypes are false images that people hold about all members of a particular race or ethnicty. In America, we have different racial groups and as well as ethnicity. Racial groups can be defined as a group of people that is said to be different from others because of physical or genetic traits shared among them in the group while ethnicity can be defined as a group of people that shares a common culture, religion or language.…
All throughout time, people have been divided due to their differences. People who see others that are different from them will often immediately decide that they are “weird” and put those people lower than themselves. According to Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe in their passage, “Theories and Constructs of Race,” Race is just a social construct made by humans to exclude people based on what they look like, where they are from, their culture, etc. If scientists were to look at someone’s deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) compared to another person with, say, different colored skin, they would notice that there is not much of a difference between the two people. Therefore, as Holtzman and Sharpe say, “race is constructed socially, culturally, politically,…
Race has also affected my life in many ways and continues to affect it in my everyday life. I identify as being white since that is the color of my skin. Race is not something that someone can choose or change because it is how they are born. Again being from a small town in Maine, race has not affected my life greatly due to basically my entire school being the same race, white. My high school had maybe six or seven people who do not identify as white.…
There was a situation where I had chosen to advocate for women, especially women of color. A few years ago there was a law that was passed on abortion rights in Arkansas. It shortened the amount of weeks a mother could decide to proceed with an abortion. Many of my coworkers, who were women, were surprisingly not against this new law. It was difficult to explain how this one law could have adverse effects for women of color.…
After handling different kinds of work, including being a private nurse assistant and, currently, a human resource coordinator, I have to admit that I have had my share of expressing prejudice and discrimination. At the same time, as a woman and a member of the minority, I had been a victim of discrimination as well at work and social settings. I was born in the Dominican Republic and raised by Catholics, although I am not a practicing Catholic but a believer of a higher being. My culture influenced my identity and experiences. Culture, specifically the sexual division of labor and racist beliefs, have affected my perceptions as an employee and how I was treated in society; moreover, realizing my own biases has me to change myself and challenge…
We use of stereotypes all the time without knowing it. Stereotypes are learned through direct observation from the culture around us and enter our consciousness. In our society talks out loud about egalitarianism, equality and justice as our own values, but at the same time such equality exists only as an ideal. There is still a great unconscious level of prejudice in our society that effect of racial, gender micro-aggression. The overtly biased expresses through our expressions, stance, verbal and nonverbal communication, and eye contact we make.…