Anthropology

The Irony Of Racism Racism and irony? Do those two things sound like they could be related? The fact of the matter is that, all racism is ironic. The basis of racism is ironic and In To Kill a Mockingbird we see the irony of racism, Mrs. Merriweather's racism against her maid Sophy and Atticus and how Maycomb's ironic racism compares with the racism of today. Not a lot of people realize just how ironic racism really is. Examples of racism and irony in To Kill a Mockingbird and in everyday…

As defined by Roy L. Brooks, Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) is a collection of critical stances against the existing legal order from a race-based point of view. Lolita Buckner Inniss, “Other Spaces” in Legal Pedagogy, 28 Harvard Journal On Racial & Ethnic Justice, 67, 68 (2012). The explicit goal of CRT is racial anti-subordination by means of de-privileging and deconstructing certain legal methodologies. Id. at 70. An example of CRT in action would be using personal stories and anecdotes to…

Unimpeachable: not able to be doubted, questioned, or criticized; entirely trustworthy. Brandish: wave or flourish (something, especially a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement. Famish: Extremely hungry Abolitionist: a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery. Manumission: is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. In loco parentis: (of a teacher or other adult responsible for children) in the place of…

Scientifically, synthesis means the combination of ideas to form a theory or system. This synthesis essay I will combine works of literature like To Kill a Mockingbird and A Raisin in the Sun, and a social science documentary called American Denial to focus on the “Powerful” and its opposite “Powerlessness” and its effects on race. Throughout works of literature like To Kill a Mockingbird and A Raisin in the Sun, and a social science documentary called American Denial it’s clear that race…

Texts are cultural artefacts representing their epoch, shaped not by an immanent time but rather by the play of divergent temporalities that reflect and develop the values, ideas and attitudes of their context. Evident in Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s collection of poems ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ from the Victorian era, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920s modernist novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, composers espouse the values and ideas of their time to explore notions of intertextuality within their…

Describing humans as being part of multiple different races is widely inaccurate. The argument that human beings living on planet earth are divided into various races based on biological differences contains multiple flaws. Science has proven that humans all belong to the same race. Furthermore the belief that multiple races exist is not only wrong but can also be quite dangerous because it leads to the justified oppression of specific races believed to be inferior. Oppressed “races” are then…

Pauker (2013) [Jackson, Aaron] The power of identity to motivate face memory and virus and individuals Use biracial individuals to prime one of the racial identities pg780 also reactions to a silent race identity is prime differently between biracial people pg780 Individuals have a hard time recognizing faces of different races outside of their own this is called own race bias or cross race effect less exposure to people of another race make it hard to the diverge from the normality of one’s…

DaSilva believes that racism is practiced primarily by the white population and, as instances of overt discrimination become more difficult to find in contemporary America, he contends that racism must be shrouded in something called ‘color-blind racism’ and white privilege. The use of this ideology to justify the persistent inequities present in society relies on the assumption that the dominant culture is somehow working in concert to maintain the status quo of racial superiority. However, it…

Through examination of DNA tests, researchers have possessed the capacity to proclaim that race is not organically developed because of the likenesses between human qualities. By and by, in all actuality, individuals still accentuated on natural viewpoints, for example, skin shading, or hair composition to order others into diverse races. This thusly, precluded the genuine personality from claiming race, which it is socially developed. Ethnicity, by definition is likewise socially built, thusly…

In this day and age, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to classify people into one race. There is so much of the population that multiple race backgrounds, and it is difficult to determine one’s specific race. I think a huge reason for these obstacles stem from societies becoming accepting to biracial relationships. Now, people are more likely come from multiple race. I found the Race Lab to be surprisingly difficult. I went in thinking that it would be very easy and that I would…