The northern parts of the United States accepted African Americans, and many try to escape to the north to try to get employed and leave the racial segregation in the south. The south had state laws that prevented African Americans from doing what they believe are right. (265, packet) Even though it was said that, African Americans are equal to whites under the constitution, as long as part of the United States still have the segregation going on, then the African Americans do not have rights in the whole country. This was a huge obstacle to stop the racism and try to fit them into the society to live with whites. Women were part of the minorities along with the blacks because of the way they were treated.
When in reality, they are both wrong. Everyone deserves to be equal in the American, it’s our right, and if you don’t like it then become a hermit so you will not have to deal with it. The Black Panthers want Africans to take over the white race, as if to make war with them. The Skinheads hate anyone who is not white; believe the saying “if you’re not white you’re not right”. I believe the old school Black Panthers had a bigger impact on U.S. society more than anything.
It is also a thorned rose bush for the US. On one hand, it built this country and America would not be here without it. On the other hand, it has created much strife. No example greater than the effect it had on the African slaves. As most Indians viewed Indians from other tribes as less than human, so did America view African slaves or precisely, anyone of a color other than white.
Blue Eyed Discrimination has been a major issue in society for a long time, ever since the first white settlers, the settlers discriminated against American Indians and the first black slaves brought over from Africa. Discrimination is defined as unfair treatment of different categories of people based on their gender, race, age or physical characteristics over which they have no control. Discrimination occurs when one category of people think that they are superior to other categories of people in society. Discrimination is the focus of Jane Elliot’s blue eyed brown eyed exercise which is featured in Bertman Verhaags documentary blue eyed (1996). In the documentary Jane Elliot focuses on discrimination against women, homosexuals and mostly against African Americans and how society is biased to suit the oppressors.
Since the discovery of African society by Caucasians in Western civilization, women of African descent have been seen as beings of sexual promiscuity. The body of an African woman was mysterious and vulgar to the Western invaders. Because African women were build in a stocky and robust manner, with pronounced buttocks, breasts, and labia, Caucasians deemed their purpose as sexual. African tribal members wore significantly less clothing than their Caucasian counterparts because of the climate of the continent. They also practiced polygamy and tribal dances.
I was not Zora of Orange County any more, I was now a little colored girl. I found it out in certain ways. In my heart as well as I the mirror, I was now a fast brown—warranted not to rub or run (Hurston 1426). Her individual name, Zora, becomes invisible next to the label of racial otherness imposed by the white society around her. In the society outside of
When people talk about race, it is generally used to identify people of a particular ethnic or cultural group (e.g. White, Black, Latino, Asian, etc.). The Oxford American Dictionary defines “race” as one of the great divisions of mankind with certain inherited physical characteristics in common. This term has long been used for classifying humans into different groups by factors such as skin color, appearance, culture, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. There are misconceptions about the use of race because all humans fall in the category of homosapiens.
Nikki S. Lee’s photograph portraying the Asian female among the black community furthermore supports Winant’s claim. This picture illustrates the stereotypical black society. Their cultural patterns are viewed on a lower social structure, therefore racism exists. “The possibility of black folk and their cultural patterns existing in America without discrimination and on terms of inequality… is a North Star that shines yet.” According to Howard Winant, racism is an inevitable part of social structure that has become an established practice in the United States. Winant’s defines racism, in Racism: From Domination to Hegemony, as “the routinized outcome of practices that create or reproduce hierarchical social structures based on essentialized racial
Victimized Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin is a short story filled with deception and victims of society. Most decisions made by the characters in this short story are consequences of society’s view of people and the lineage that each of the inhabitants of its society have. The story takes place in the antebellum period. Slavery was still what ruled the stature of a person and how they treated each other: Any people of dark skin, or “negroes” as referred to in the short story, were slaves: “To be black is to be condemned to a life of subservience; to be white is to inherit mastery. No matter how beautiful or how fair one may be, blood rules” (Rosenblum 2).
Race has always been a very controversial subject and that have been related with biological and hereditary traits that sets people apart, creating inequality. Scientific racism and dominant groups have validated and tried to legitimatize those assumptions. In contrast, Michael Omi and Howard Winant theory” Racial Formation” observes race as a, “Social constructed identity, where the content and importance of racial categories are determine by social, economic and political forces” (1986, p. 61). This paper will critically analyze race from a historical background, then how socially constructed categories of race were used to control and subjugated African slaves in America and other invisible minorities, next, how even today race is problematic in contemporary situations and finally, how sociologist have risen up to reconstruct those mythical representation of race . Race is associated with biology, the dominant racial ideology uses skin color to determine an individual race.