Can someone’s racial identity change over time? We think about racial identity as a static identifier but can our knowledge of race and the environment around us make us re-evaluate how we identify ourselves to other? In my particular case, I still identify has a white Latin-American. None the less plenty has changed since the recording of my reflection video. Growing up in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood and with my mother’s sheltering, I really thought a lot about my identity and how it related to other around me. I was unaware of a world where my identity mattered and predisposed me to different treatment than others. At the time I wasn’t aware of being the victim of racism or oppression and as a consequence did not have a reason
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I was neutral to other races and ethnicities but assimilating the white culture by virtue of ignorance. As a child, I can see why it would be convenient for parents to shelter their children from our system of oppression. As parents we want to protect our children but we are unaware that by sheltering them from reality (racism and oppression) we may be teaching them racism. I went through the early school years in my own neighborhood which was predominantly Hispanic. I attended Catholic school which further ensured that I did encounter people of different beliefs or culture thus I continued to naively navigate the conformity …show more content…
It has helped me put a lot of racial issues in perspective by offering a historical basis for my notion of racism and more importantly systemic racism. I know understand how systemic racism affects minorities. I may have known the definition of the term but I did not understand how its definition came to life. By watching the video The Color of Fear, I was able to see how systemic racism scared members of minority groups. The video The Power of an Illusion offered me a historic background for understanding systemic racism and how it affects housing and other systems of the society we live
I was neutral to other races and ethnicities but assimilating the white culture by virtue of ignorance. As a child, I can see why it would be convenient for parents to shelter their children from our system of oppression. As parents we want to protect our children but we are unaware that by sheltering them from reality (racism and oppression) we may be teaching them racism. I went through the early school years in my own neighborhood which was predominantly Hispanic. I attended Catholic school which further ensured that I did encounter people of different beliefs or culture thus I continued to naively navigate the conformity …show more content…
It has helped me put a lot of racial issues in perspective by offering a historical basis for my notion of racism and more importantly systemic racism. I know understand how systemic racism affects minorities. I may have known the definition of the term but I did not understand how its definition came to life. By watching the video The Color of Fear, I was able to see how systemic racism scared members of minority groups. The video The Power of an Illusion offered me a historic background for understanding systemic racism and how it affects housing and other systems of the society we live