Race

Race, Gender, and Science in the Atlantic World is by far one of the most intriguing and diverse courses I have ever taken. The course did not change much of my views on the role of races in other regions in the Atlantic. I have learned a lot from the numerous articles and short videos, but many of the topics that were covered were situations and issues I was already familiar with. I have always felt as if gender and race played an important role in a person’s life. Race and sex can affect a…

indicated 52% of Americans had a positive view towards race relations. Throughout the first term of President Obama, about seven in ten Americans stated the issue with race relations was good. Shortly after President Obama was elected as President for the first term, 77% of Americans gave a positive assessment on the issue. However, during President Obama’s second term of office, there has been a dramatic increase in racial discontent. Race relations is a sensitive subject for people all across…

Race is something that is constantly shaped by individuals and is imprinted on American culture. It’s constantly apart of our everyday lives, especially being a person of color in America. The ideas about ones humanity, worth and value can and is graded by a single factor, race. This semester I have dug deep into topics such as whiteness, the attack on the black family, and the media and it has further helped my understandings on race relations in America and throughout its history. This class I…

The effect of race on perceived threats plays a significant role in society. However, there stands much debate on the matter. It is imperative to question the effects of race on perceived threats, to better understand how minorities are treated in respects to housing, education, and even punishment. By examining this inquiry, one may hope to gain knowledge and understanding of by what means race effects perceived threats and how those effects not only bring challenges to subgroups, but…

While some may say race does not exist, it is, in fact, a very real concept, just not biologically. Race is a social and cultural construct created as a means to classify and rank groups of people. Much of this has roots in colonialism and migration – as soon as people started migrating, exploring, and running into groups that don’t look like them, these classifications were made to try to keep order in society. The field of anthropology has a dark history of this racial categorization; many…

Race relation is always a problem in the society. Different people have different feelings or opinions about races. It is hard to have race equality in a society, but we can eliminate inequality among races. Legal system can be an issue when there are discriminations, everyone should be treated equally when they are facing the legal system. For example, if someone has to use the legal system to do something, he/she should be treated equally no matter what race he/she is. There should be no…

memo is to inform families about the relationship between race/ethnicity, and social class in defining contemporary marriage and families. One similarity is at present society most people marry for personal fulfillment. Financial stability is important, but couples would still get marry. I have learned that different race has different values about marriage and families. African American, they have a larger decline in marriage than other race, because of their implications for black families.…

Race as a Biological Concept Social Construct or Eliminativism There have been many debates on the reality of race. These are the three major arguments on race: race as a natural biological concept (naturalism), social constructionism, or race from an eliminativism viewpoint. Naturalism focuses on the objective characteristics to distinguish differences among racial groups. Social constructionist Sally Haslanger, would argue races are ‘real’ as a social concept, but are not natural biological…

This film had a profound impact on the way that I personally view the social construct known as race. It amazed me that the idea of race extends far beyond that of nature. Race is prevalent in our economics, culture and our politics. A primary observation that I made was that many of the social institutions that essentially “regulate” racism do not do it verbally/physically but through methods of disproportionate distribution of resources and power as well as de facto segregation. For instance,…

The Hispanic race consists the 12.5% of the US population. That is to say, my actual story as Hispanic is being born in New Jersey from US naturalized parents and they are Honduran by birth. My family moved back to Honduras, I was raised my whole life there and I moved back to the United States to get my degree. Most people does not know my story, the only thing that they can perceive and infer is that I am Hispanic. Therefore, a series of thoughts, stereotypes, stigma and others comes to their…