The Amazing Race

12/04/2017 Mythological Construction of race Research paper The social construction of race typically refers to the idea that race is not biologically determined. In Hacking's terms racial classification “is not determined by the nature of things; it is not inevitable.” Social constructionists about race would also argue racial classification has negative societal consequences, or in Hacking's terms “is quite bad. (Mutegi, 2012) In general, when thinking about race one of the first…

once never felt different than everyone else until she went into a different town. No matter where you go in this world, there will always be discrimination against race. People tend to look past character and skip to discriminating race so easily due to history, fear, and their own lack of self-confidence. Discrimination against race has occurred a lot due to events in history. All across the world, racism occurs. People tend to see and follow. If there was not as much racism in the past years,…

During the indigenous/Native American week, there were many relations and new things that I learned throughout the week. From chapter nine in the Wayne Au book I learned that everyone has a different way of growing up and we all need to embrace where we came from. What I learned the most about that week we all have to love ourselves and who we are. If it was not for our generation before us we would not where we are today and that already is such a huge success because other countries do not the…

Inequality is a problem that is faced all over the world, but some people only see it the opposite way. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how inequality is not important to everyone through Dolphus Raymond. While the children are talking about Mr. Dolphus Raymond it was stated: “He likes ‘em better’n he likes us, I reckon. Lives by himself way down near the county line. He’s got a colored woman and all sorts of mixed chillun”(Lee 161). Harper Lee shows that even people in…

Being a discussant leader, this week was truly an amazing experience for me. During the group discussion my group members and I engaged in a very critical discussion about this week’s readings. Almost all my group members had never heard of the term environmental racism or justice. This made all of us question how come we never learned about environmental racism/ justice before? I challenged my group members by asking them if they were familiar with the terrible environmental conditions that…

I believe that Anne Moody’s main point in this second section of the book is that you got to stand up and almost die for what you believe in if you want to see change but sometimes even that’s not enough and sometimes you have to wonder what is enough and if the world will ever change. Today, this is still true people still write songs about how the world could and needs to be better. Even though now African Americans can vote and we even have had an African-American president things are still…

It is beyond the bounds of possibility to define America as one specific race or culture. America is a melting pot of many religions and beliefs from all around the world. “I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations” (Crèvecoeur). It is amazing that so many people with different backgrounds and nationalities can come together and support…

discrimination as any other race. Racism towards Asians and Asian Americans happens so frequently that it has become acceptable and we Asians have built some sort of tolerance. We become unaware as we start believing it is normal to be treated poorly. Asians face racism a lot differently from other ethic groups. Although we rarely hear about Asians facing racism, it is living strong and in most cases they are left unpunished or ignored. People overlook the many other races that face…

The article The Hidden History of Mestizo America was written by history professor Gary B. Nash to inform readers about the history of mestizo people. The word mestizo is used in a broad sense to cover all different types of mixed race people. The reasoning behind various historic interracial marriages, classifications of mestizo people, and the cultural and historical impact are discussed. The article begins in 1617 when King James I and Queen Anne’s guests at a performance distracted the…

whole that had their own problems or specialties that made them feel out of place, make them feel like an outsider. S.E Hinton was an amazing writing that didn’t need to show what being an outsider means. She shows you the feelings they go through that made them that way. Today you can still see people being casted out in society. For how they act, talk, their race, what they like, you could be considered an outsider no matter what you do. I feel like this shouldn’t be a problem anymore. We…