Racial Ideology, American Politics, and the Peculiar Role of the Social Sciences”; where he explains his research on the intersection of poverty, crime and race. Bobo contends the United States is faced with a sophisticated, elusive and enduring race problem. His use of two separate focus groups one being all white and the other being all black uncovered evidence to support just how complex the race problem in America is. Bobo contends the just saying that the race problem still endures is not to say that it remains fundamentally the same and essentially the same. Bobo asks how we can have milestone decisions like Brown V. Board, pass a civil rights act, a voting act, fair housing acts, and numerous acts of enforcement and amendments, including the pursuit of affirmative action policies and still continue to face a significant racial divide in America.
Mary P. O’Malley HIST 365 Prof. Nation June 22, 2008 Essay Exam 3 What was the basis of the pro-slavery defense in the South? In the early to mid-1800’s, white southern leaders began to defend themselves against what they perceived as attacks against their way of life and the “peculiar institution”, which facilitated it. As the abolitionist movement grew, Southern leaders defended slavery citing, Biblical, historical, sociological, political, and economic justifications, which were all ultimately tied to race. The Bible was commonly cited in pro-slavery arguments. In the Old Testament, God’s chosen people, the Israelites, were slaveholders, and it was argued that Africans were descendents of Hamm, whose curse was to live in servitude to his brothers.
Sources: Maria Dugandzic. Against all odds: School offers hope, opportunity for young men. CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/25/bia.urban.prep/index.html The main argument the author wants to exhibit here is that although nowadays blacks have much poorer performance in the United States, there is still hope that they can make a difference if offered necessary opportunities. This news story makes me realize a question: what determines blacks’ bad academic performance, like D'Souza says in the end of racism?
Jim LaRose Professor Rollings Sociology 101 3/19/2012 The Social Construction of Parallel Worlds in the Jim Crow South There are two different worlds when it comes to White and Negro. They have different beliefs, different way of living, and a different way of treating people that aren’t the same. In the novel Black like Me it shows the reader the life style that black people had to live in the 1950’s. Racism was a normal thing back then and wasn’t dealt with the way it is now. Whites felt powerful and as if they were in control.
Devan Dickerson Afrikan Diaspora 11/4/2011 Sankofa: The Damage That Has Been Done Black people in this nation are, and have been for some time, in the midst of an identity crisis. They are torn between what they are taught in a white run society and the Afrikan ancestry they know nothing about. Sankofa is an illustration of where this identity crisis began. It is the story of a black model, Mona, who is sent to the past in the form of a house slave named Shola. The things Mona sees are not all that different from what the average black person sees in America today.
Racism Nowadays, many people are talking about racism whether it still exist in the society. Racism is a term that represents the race of discrimination, unequal treatment, or violence. In fact, a country cannot totally avoid these natural phenomenons, but it can be controlled by the public of the country. In Harlon L. Dalton’s essay “Horatio Alger” in rereading America by Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle and Barack Obama’s essay “Origins” in Dreams from my father prove that racism is a part of my life when I was living in a foreign country. These two essays from Harlon L. Dalton and Barack Obama both are about the racism between people.
How far do you agree with the view that African Americans were treated as second class citizens between 1940 and 1946? This view is very accurate; African Americans were not offered the same political, economic or social opportunities and rights as white people, despite the terms of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. However, overall, treatment of African Americans was worse in the south. Political/ legal rights and opportunities were limited for African Americans due to their treatment as second class citizens. For example, in the south, Jim Crow laws were in place, meaning that everybody had to pass a literacy test and pay poll tax before they could vote.
“The contamination was largely due to the incursion into these communities by some majority social scientists, accompanied by black ultraconservative professionals who help pave the way for African-American exploitation” (See, 2007, p. 7). The black experience is an experience difficult to collect data on with the connection to Africa, however See (2007) suggest until social scientist are able to develop accurate information regarding the black experience, researchers should continue using the theoretical strips as a model for examining the behavior of African
What has first given to us by slave master in separating the house slaves from the field slaves, has now taken place in how we objectify our women and each other. Portrayed in Spike Lee film School Daze, prevalent in the modeling industry, and dating back to the slavery era, Colorism has and still remains a social issue that continues to segregate the black community. Racerelations.about.com defines Colorism as a practice of discrimination by which those with lighter skin are treated more favorably than those with darker skin. Colorism ties in to the field of sociology because it explores the topic of race relations amongst an ethnicity group. The social theory that would apply to the topic of Colorism would be the Scapegoat theory.
Racism goes back to “800 B.C. where the view of racism was an epidemic in the white society and the only solution was to separate black people from the whites in order to defend themselves and protect their interests.” (-800BC-today: A very brief history of racism) “Libertarians view racism to be a product of capitalism.” (-800BC-today: A very brief history of racism) The libertarians felt that racism grew out the early capitalism, because the use of slaves had create a world that was justified but white governance had started dividing the working class by ethnicity. However, the society before was capitalism was able to do without the form of persecution. “The first clear evidence of racism occurred at the end of the 16th Century with the start of slave trade from Africa to Britain and to America.” (Nittle) Racism had reached its ultimate high over the years and because a lot of wrong doing was being done to blacks and other ethnic cultures and therefore a program was created called affirmative action. Affirmative action was implemented in different societies for minorities so they can have access to jobs and educational opportunities.