Binary classification

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Combining race and ethnicity to resolve racial stigmas, or ethnorace, does not disrupt the black/white binary. I believe the black/white binary is something that will always be present in America. People of different ethnicities and races, coalesced or not, will always be treated differently, whether it be because of their skin color, other physical features, cultural origin, or nativism. Ethnorace is a term used for someone who has assimilated into a different society than their ancestry, in…

black and white binary, one can strongly support the claim that ethnorace can definitely disrupt the black and white binary. Linda Alcoff mentions three concepts that specifically relevant to understanding the condition of all Latinos in the United States. Two of these concepts include the anti-Latino racism, which is lost in racial discourses that remain exclusively concentrated on the black-white binary, and ethnorace, which is a hybridized identity. The black and white binary is where the…

Response Paper #2 Gender binaries have created a system of oppression that forces all people into one of two strictly defined gender categories, man and woman. In “Dismantling Gender Polarization and Compulsory Heterosexuality: Should We Turn the Volume down or up?” a journal article from The Journal of Sex Research written by Sandra Lipsitz Bem, she discusses how society created a gender binary system where two and only categories of sex/gender/desire are recognized and the two categories have…

the paradigmatic woman are the “hegemonic binary” of our society. This binary praises those who follow it and demeans those who don’t. Society constructed these binaries as a means of control and a way to enforce the existing hierarchies. Thus, making it easy to identify those in society who should and should not be privileged. By examining the meanings of sex, sexuality, and gender you can understand why society creates these privileges. The classification of the Paradigmatic Woman has not…

What if our conception of reality is false, or what if reality doesn’t even exist? Stargirl, a young adult novel by Jerry Spinelli, challenges our notion of reality as being a binary opposition favoring reality over the unreal. This binary can be found throughout the novel, but is especially evident during chapter two when the students struggle to make sense of Stargirl, the new student at Mica Area High School. This chapter begins with the very exclusive judgement that “[Stargirl is] not…

manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.” These words quoted by Buddha, depict the reason why social binaries are such a damaging thing to our society. The word binary is defined as a system in which two sets of things are split into groups, specifically opposites. All sorts of binaries can be created, such as: gender, class, and racial. These are the more commonly known binaries that have created something similar to a social hierarchy. Social binaries were…

A perspective indicates that biological differences of human beings are simply classified into a binary relationship, is called biological essentialism. It assumes the binary relationship among sex, gender and sexuality is that the gender of males is masculine and the gender of females is feminine. Furthermore, it also suggests that the sexualities of males and females are attracted to its opposite gender, which is heterosexual. In addition, biological essentialism normalizes and naturalizes…

their little boy into, even if the packaging does not dictate the interests of the little boy. However, children do feel pressure from society, in the form of their peers, to play with toys coded for their half of the gender binary. The term gender binary refers to the classification of gender into two distinct, disconnected forms such as male and female (TSER). Boys are often called “sissies”, girls “tomboys”, for playing with toys that are coded outside of their gender, and these terms are…

actual racial identity which further reinforces the binary racial classification in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man while a sense of foreboding in The Fire Next Time characterises the future of the American society if this binary racial classification is not transcended. The use of retrospective narration in both the texts reflects the maturity the narrator develops as he ages this…