The Amazing Race

during the civil rights movement for desegregation. Rock and roll brought different races together because they were able to connect to the music. This type of music was very amazing in the 1950’s because different races were able to come together and realize that they are not that different. During this time R&B music was not as popular as it is today because Rhythm and Blues did not connect to several different races like Rock and Roll did. The style of Rock and Roll music forced the black and…

Prior to this class I did not think of race as a social construct, I knew that the idea of race was created, but I never examined why, how, and by was it created for. In my first essay, I examined my experiences growing up as experiences that had to do with race, but I did not know how to articulate the way that racial construct played a vital role in my experiences growing up. When writing my first essay I touched on education, living environments, wealth, and stereotypes, but I did not…

class, I have seen examples of women and men who have stood up trying to change the minds of others to stop the world from seeing in just black and white. From this I have been shown how my culture has developed from the suffering, protesting, and amazing works of art blacks have created. I have also seen the opposite, where others believe that there is no discrimination happening at all. This in turn, gave me the ability to always stand…

important things to have and are extremely helpfully in establishing us as a free country. The rights that we have as American citizens are many and amazing when compared with the rights of people from other countries. The definition of our rights as American citizens is a definition that is conflicted throughout the country for many years according to race and religion, but is now changing to help many people. The…

example that people wanted to integrate and to dismiss the social taboos between communities. Of course, some people would not like that idea, and they preferred to listen to songs from certain races, but musicians were the ones who wanted to make the change. They wanted to learn from each other regardless their races. White musicians started to play black music for their white fans because they actually liked it (Pecknold…

Race matters. When trying to close the achievement gap, one can’t help but identify and discuss race. However, the discussion of race makes most educators uncomfortable. The current chapters in the text focus on the role race plays in learning and also the role racial awareness plays. According to the text race is at the center of the achievement gap. The text discusses four ways scholars interrogate race. The four categories listed in the text did not surprise me. It was interesting…

And beautiful families with interracial children are everywhere these days and they make beautiful children. For example Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey are two examples of amazing interracial people. Although in the 90s going to junior high school was hard sometimes all because of the Rodney King riots in L.A. that was 55 miles from my home and the big racial divide over the O.J. Simpson trial was another issue along with police…

African Americans are in denial of who they are. Denial of their race has affected the black community as a whole, and it is important that they embrace who they are. Many have often forgotten where they have come from. Other African Americans just do not want to accept it. Embracing blackness means acceptance, realization, and unification. Black people cannot be qualified as African American nor are they qualified as Americans due to a lack of acceptance in the community. Africans will not…

There are several themes within To Kill a Mockingbird and that I was makes this book so special. The theme "people are people regardless of race or social class" is something that sticks out to me. Throughout the book many people believed different things. Atticus always felt that anyone that enters the courthouse deserves a fair trial. "There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried" (Chapter 23). In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout was exposed to…

Race in the United states is a course which explores race and race relations through discussions. Through the course, we could discuss various topics which race affects. For example, we discussed the prison system, health care, poverty, education, affirmative action, and much more. Not only did we focus on African Americans and whites, but we also explore different ethnicities and the way their ethnicity and race affected them. A big focus in the class was the intersectionality of race and…