Nordic race

When I was younger my mother once told me of a biblical story in which a town would come together in order to purge themselves of sin. They would gather up a lone goat and hurl rocks and spew profanities, in many ways harming it within an inch of its life as it bled out upon the earth. They would then open the gates of the town and let the goat run away and carry all of their sins, transgressions, and their insecurities out into the wilderness in where the goat, along with all their sin, would…

In a society as a culturally diverse as we live in, we think that some people would learn to accept one another. Nevertheless, there are some people who simply cannot accept other people because of the color of their skin. In Brent Staples essay “Black men and Public Space” the author describes something that young black men experience on more than one occasion in their lives. Being black seem as a criminal simply based on the color of their skin. Brent Staples explains in his essay that the…

make a distinct decision of his true character. Readers should view this book critical of the narrator 's actions and decisions concluding him to be a coward. The ex colored man should be considered a coward because of his inability to accept his race, and his refusal to follow the traditions of his upbringing. Being critical of him is not racist; however, it is he proves…

continue making changes to evolving to assure racial equality makes progress or is reached. Americans believing racism is a problem continues to rise (about 50% currently). America as a whole gave police departments unfavorable ratings for treating all races equally. Also, majority of Americans agreed the confederated flag should be removed for representing racism and slavery. The wealth gap between blacks and whites reached the highest point it has been since 1989. In this article, Pew…

Ethnicity and Race: The Media’s Role The article, “Why the Media’s Role in Issues of Race and Ethnicity Should be in the Spotlight”, written by Dana Mastro, claims that the mass media has a negative role on domestic racial and ethnic relations between people in society today. After researching the issue, Mastro stated, “However, what research does indicate is that these groups are commonly seen in roles tied to longstanding stereotypes” (Mastro, 4). Stereotypes are a word with a negative…

Struggles with Awareness To be fully real, one must first be recognized by another person of equal or higher prestige in society. Only through proving one’s self, can such awareness be achieved. In a typical Hegelian struggle, two equal opponents face one another and battle for dominance. One will succeed and become the Master, and one will fall short to become the Bondsman. As Hegel describes though, “in serving and toiling, the Bondsman can actually find self-awareness; his Bondage is not…

Since Armand figures that he knows his past and who he actually is, so he assumes that Desiree is the reason why their baby is mixed. Besides, the fact that Desiree is adopted and does not know what her ethnicity is the reason why Armand feels like her race, which he assumes is black, changes everything. He does not want anything to destroy who and what he is, so he told his wife and baby to leave. Armand does not want people to frown upon him or make him into a joke so, he felt like “he no…

activity on the PBS: Race as an Illusion website, I was told that I had correctly paired 6 out of 20 people’s faces with their corresponding U.S. racial classification. These results were not entirely surprising. I often find myself categorizing others, whether it be by gender, ethnicity, race or age, but I recognize that I am usually wrong in these assumptions. I’m horrible at guessing someone’s age and, more often than not, I’m wrong when it comes to guessing someone’s race or ethnicity, as…

category of race may contribute significantly to how one responds to a media text. Bobo, being unnerved by her respondents initial quiet response to me was interesting, among those I viewed the film with, her concerns would have been confirmed, but among an audience of Black women it seemed to be a time of reflection and connection (Bobo,…

In Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao we get a greater glimpse into the politics of phenotypes and authenticity in Dominican culture. More specifically in its relationship to blackness. In Irene Lopez, a Puerto Rican clinical psychologist’s essay, Puerto Rican Phenotype: Understanding Its Historical Underpinnings and Psychological Associations, she posits that, “Puerto Ricans who consider being “Indian” more beautiful, or more authentic, than being Black and, thus, often prefer to…