The subjective perspective on a certain individual's culture, history and language marks the starts of an endless dispute on whether or not the meaning behind their intentions were deliberately aim to disrespect one’s race. While the critiques on race is considered a normal occurrence, it brings the rising question on whether or not the illustration of a person’s social and cultural identity through the use of literature could pose as an informative and objective to critically analyze for constructive criticism to improve and understand society's’ viewpoints on certain preconceived opinions about a set race. In Mexican in France by Sandra Cisneros, the poem reveals society’s subconscious responses to a person’s appearances and how they seem to give the impression in which their ethics group have cultivated in the eyes’ of the general public.…
“Race itself is fiction” (603) is said by Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe, authors of “Theories and Constructs of Race” in this they describe the terms that they believe to have heavy influences on all cultures across the globe. All of these terms these authors define can be well applied to the writings of David Treuer in his piece “Rez Life”. Treuer writes about the hard times that the Native Americans had struggled through during America's growth periods. The Indigenous people described in Treuer’s “Rez Life” can relate to Holtzman & Sharpe’s concepts of race through being racially discriminated against by being forced to assimilate to American customs and were subjected to feel as the inferior culture; despite these negativities, some Native…
In summary “Going Dutch: Reflections on Nation, Race, and Privilege.” By Sadiqa Khan, argues that in the Netherlands, being Dutch means she has to look like a Dutch, as that is the ideology of a Dutch persona regardless if she was born there or not. Khan deals with many conflicts within her day-to-day business around her appearance as she is buying food, volunteering, renewing her passport and being introduced at a graduation. However, in Canada, she feels welcomed because Canadian ideology and culture strives on immigration and welcoming more people from abroad. This article showcases a very broad issue that society has today which is racism throughout the world.…
By locating race mainly within the visible, however, one is able to see everything someone from an African American background makes as inherently different from anything made by a white American. When writing about different types of…
In Bell Hook’s article, Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination, she further discusses how exploring whiteness through the lens of the ‘black imagination’ can help stimulate the thought of how whiteness really…
In his extensive work, “White Ignorance” the Caribbean born social philosopher Charles W. Mills postulates a political theory oppositional to Classical American Academia which cites race, in particular the dominant white race, as the dynamic force behind the ignorance which plagues the gap between multiracial equality. Mills elucidates his argument through a platform of laws from which any individual case may or may not be reputed as resulting from white ignorance. While all races to some degree exhibit a natural tendency judge others customs based on criterion that glorifies their own ways, otherwise known as Ethnocentrism, it is the white man’s variant which has laid the framework for the modern condition of all peoples on Earth. The author…
In this paper, I intend to interpret and explain the arguments made by Jane Hill in her article titled “Language, Race, and White Public Space.” To successfully map Hill’s arguments, I will complete the following. At first, I will identify the main claims Hill makes, outlining each argument in detail. As I state the main claims of the article, I will explain definitions important to the understanding of each argument. I will then discuss the evidence Hill uses to support her claims and connect the evidence to the argument’s main points.…
In Sandra Cisneros’ “Never Marry a Mexican,” the narrator of the story recalls her troubled affair with a married white man. It is evident that the narrator is a Hispanic female, but her age is unknown. Nevertheless, most readers will infer that the events in “Never Marry a Mexican” occurred over a long period of time. Hence, “Never Marry a Mexican” is a brilliant, short story that discusses self-hatred and white privilege. White people are extremely influential in the Western Hemisphere due to the fact that their ancestors conquered the New World.…
This leads her through an emotional process that causes her to question racial classification and how she identifies herself. Her final solution is to suggest alternate terminology that she feels everyone can be comfortable with. While I believe the author makes some valid points that I can appreciate, it seems as though she is so…
In the modern age, we are taught that all people are equal and every person, no matter their race or gender are awarded the same privileges. Is this in fact really true? Many people seem to get a little shaky on the topic of privilege and race. When a black man speaks about the injustices against his people the majority of this country are unable to empathize due to the fact that they can never step foot in their shoes. Privileges are defined by the people who have them.…
Privilege and white privilege is there a difference? The text states that White privilege is “a set of advantaged and or immunities that white people benefit from on a daily basis beyond those common to all others” (Avakian, 2003). As I searched privilege and read different terms I understood it as, a special right like an advantage, something granted to a particular person or group of people. Though there is a difference between the two I can see why the term Privilege is attached to “White”. White people are often unaware of the position they are placed in by society.…
Yet, at the same time, such representational tactics – in the form of announcing a new ‘identity’ formation – risk subtending the radical potential of such convergent politics within a register of visual containment: normativizing by definition Both the ‘Let Alvaro Stay’ campaign and the ‘I Am Undocuqueer’ project are examples of demands for regularization, a means to legalize or ‘regularize’ the status of undocumented migrants (991). Fighting for ‘fairer’ immigration policies is not a solution to the violences that are produced and organized through the nation-state form as a motor for global…
In this society whiteness is considered to be the norm, and everyone else second. Throughout history the white race has been put before any other group of people. In a article titled “ The matter of whiteness ” by Richard Dyer he states, “As long as race is something only applied to non white people, as long as white people are not racially seen and named, they / we function as a human norm” (p.10). For example, whites consider themselves as humans and see people of color as raced humans. One other problem with the invisibility of whiteness is that whites tend to cater to other whites.…
Knowledge is not worth anything if it is not shared. We should be more accepting of people as they are and embrace change. This article reinforces multiple times how self-centered individuals and institutions are and how motivated they are by money while at the same time acknowledging that no culture is better than the other. Some of the biggest issues the UN and President Elect Donald 's Trump dispute over are explained in simple concepts such as culture relatively and capitalism and therefore solved once they acknowledge…
“White Gaze” There are many thoughts that come to mind when someone mentions a black man or a working-class Mexican- American girl. It is important to understand what shaped these thoughts and where the idea for them may have started. White men are to blame for most of the labels or assumptions that are tied to minorities. The “white gaze” is the perspective of the world through the eyes of a middle-class white man. Through this gaze, or perspective, the white communities have been able to convince minorities that they are of less value (Fanon 90).…