Labels are something we usually see on products to identify what they are. However, have you ever noticed we ourselves have labels, As said by professor Shryock, “They are not a set of natural distinctions that appear to us out in the “real world”, they are things we create and impose on the “real world”. As said in that last sentence, we may not notice the labels society has on us. Society puts a label before we are even born, we have a label put onto us that does not have a definite definition (which usually changes over the time period). This is what Anthropologist call, The social construction of race and ethnicity. As we read “In Search of Respect” by Philippe Bourgois, he speaks about his experience living in El Barrio. In the process,
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And they’re motherfuckers. I swear to god I hate their fucking guts.” (45 Respect). This creates tension on how people may behave with others, and how others perceive on the labels they are born with. Going back to Kottak, “racial differences in Brazil may be so insignificant in structuring community life that people may forget the terms they have been applied to others. Sometimes they even forget the ones they’ve used for themselves.” (284 Kottak) Like it said in Kottak, it may not be noticed which creates no consequences to Ray when dealing with other Puerto Ricans. It could just have an impact on how his body is structured and how they put much respect to him as well as fear. Another that brings out the social construction of race and ethnicity, when again Caesar explains while being drunk “I even hate Puerto Ricans that Afro. I hate them like any other black man. Fuck Primo too, because he’s got an Afro and he’s black. I kill him.” (45 Respect) This arises another bigger consequence to people who are called “black”. Danger arises to them, like being hunted down for what African Americans have done or just because of their the hatred the society may have against the color. Phenotype meaning what you appear as …show more content…
A great book to read, However a hard book to find the great details that argue that race and ethnicity are socially constructed. Newly wed couple, travel from Baghdad to the village of El Nahra. On the way to El Nahra, She meets an elderly woman who help her in getting an abaya. While being there, they begin to discuss about El Nahra. “You won’t be able to stand it. No cinema, no paved streets-and the food! No chicken-if you get one, it 's nothing but bones.” (7 Sheik) Here in this part of the story, we see how westerners are seen from other countries. They are seen as people who like to go out all the time and eat a lot of different varieties of food. In 3rd world countries, they see us 1st world countries as people who have all their desired accomplished plus extra. Which may seem like it, especially when 3rd world countries have little to no resources to be keep alive with. “Now he was an effendi; a white-collar worker” (51 Sheik), Even there are people who are in the same race but considered a different name based on the education they gain or the money they worked for or have had since being born. Though In guest of the sheik is a hard ethnography to perceive from. Fernea, has great details into giving what many of the people in the village are named after. Like in Kottak, it said “Two racial/ethnic labels used in brazil are indo (indigenous, Native American) and
And they’re motherfuckers. I swear to god I hate their fucking guts.” (45 Respect). This creates tension on how people may behave with others, and how others perceive on the labels they are born with. Going back to Kottak, “racial differences in Brazil may be so insignificant in structuring community life that people may forget the terms they have been applied to others. Sometimes they even forget the ones they’ve used for themselves.” (284 Kottak) Like it said in Kottak, it may not be noticed which creates no consequences to Ray when dealing with other Puerto Ricans. It could just have an impact on how his body is structured and how they put much respect to him as well as fear. Another that brings out the social construction of race and ethnicity, when again Caesar explains while being drunk “I even hate Puerto Ricans that Afro. I hate them like any other black man. Fuck Primo too, because he’s got an Afro and he’s black. I kill him.” (45 Respect) This arises another bigger consequence to people who are called “black”. Danger arises to them, like being hunted down for what African Americans have done or just because of their the hatred the society may have against the color. Phenotype meaning what you appear as …show more content…
A great book to read, However a hard book to find the great details that argue that race and ethnicity are socially constructed. Newly wed couple, travel from Baghdad to the village of El Nahra. On the way to El Nahra, She meets an elderly woman who help her in getting an abaya. While being there, they begin to discuss about El Nahra. “You won’t be able to stand it. No cinema, no paved streets-and the food! No chicken-if you get one, it 's nothing but bones.” (7 Sheik) Here in this part of the story, we see how westerners are seen from other countries. They are seen as people who like to go out all the time and eat a lot of different varieties of food. In 3rd world countries, they see us 1st world countries as people who have all their desired accomplished plus extra. Which may seem like it, especially when 3rd world countries have little to no resources to be keep alive with. “Now he was an effendi; a white-collar worker” (51 Sheik), Even there are people who are in the same race but considered a different name based on the education they gain or the money they worked for or have had since being born. Though In guest of the sheik is a hard ethnography to perceive from. Fernea, has great details into giving what many of the people in the village are named after. Like in Kottak, it said “Two racial/ethnic labels used in brazil are indo (indigenous, Native American) and