Howard Winant

identity crisis and ethnic labeling that she must have dealt with being a product of mix race herself. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, both support Senna’s thesis, that race is socially constructed: “Rules shaped by our perception of race in a comprehensively racial society determine the ‘presentation of self, distinction of status, and appropriate modes of conduct” (Omi and Winant 4). The best example to support Omi and Winant’s argument and show how people judge based on skin color is, “Who’s…

the lens of a white male. My own view is that the one token person of color, Belize, does not begin to address the issue of ethnic representation in Angels in America as it relates to a diverse and inclusive cast of characters. Furthermore, in Bill Stanford Pincheon's article BLACK AND QUEER VISUAL CULTURE: An Annotated Filmography and Reference Guide argues that: Many in the professional field are unaware that Black lesbians and gay men have created a substantial body of work in film and video…

People are very dynamic. From a surface level, the privilege of some is very obvious. But every person is privileged, as well as disadvantaged to some extent. I am an eighteen-year-old Black, heterosexual, female. I am a Christian and a citizen of the United States of America who grew up in the middle class. I possess qualities that show both privilege and disadvantages in American society. During the third week of class, a comprehensive list was made of what it means to be privileged in the…

The film industry heavily influences America. Hollywood’s ability to censor itself results in the reoccurring portrayal of specific ideologies. For instance, throughout history, Hollywood has repeatedly shaped racially diverse characters to fit the stereotypical roles that plague society. The more a character attempts to defy a stereotype, the more inevitable that behavior becomes. The prejudice feelings that encompass many of the characters within Hollywood films are portrayed without question.…

D. REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES 1. SCREAMING THROUGH SILENCE: THE VIOLENCE OF RACE IN “INDIAN CAMP” AND “THE DOCTOR AND THE DOCTOR’S WIFE” by Amy Strong, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996 The focus in this journal article will be on the lack of an Indian (rather than Africanist) presence, Amy explores the ways Hemingway negotiates the matter of "race" and racial difference in two short stories from In Our Time. Her work will center on two of Hemingway’s earliest short stories,…

progress will bring about individual’s salvation and hopefully perhaps, racial progress but never its destruction, just personal derailment. Bibliography Whitehead, Colson. The Intuitionist. New York: Anchor, 1999. Print. Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. "Rac." Race Critical Theories: Text and Context. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. N. pag. Print. Selzer, Linda. "Instruments More Perfect than Bodies:…

Michael Omi and Howard Winant claim that “race is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies”1, which ties to the idea that race is just an illusion.2 Race is an idea that was created to cause divides within the human species; the Zoot Suit Riots and the Civil Rights Movements are examples of how it succeeded in doing so. Race has been used as tool to demean and degrade people of color from in U.S. society; the only…

The film I choose is Twelve Years a Slave. Based on a true story, it described a free black man, Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped in Washington and sold to Louisiana as a slave for twelve years before gaining freedom. It represented the greed of the capitalists and the struggle of the African Americans at the bottom of the society. By displaying the sufferings of Solomon in the twelve years, it actually showed us the destiny of all the black people in that distinctive historical background.…

Complementary Field Exam RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: APPROACHES, INTERPRETATIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Race and ethnicity are both important aspects of identity in the modern world. Given their centrality in today’s identity politics, the study of race and ethnicity has naturally found its way into the pages of studies on the ancient Mediterranean. The Greeks and Romans are thought to have been the progenitors of ideas and philosophies which the modern “Western” world…