Category: Race

The fields of sociology and anthropology have been investigating human differences in relation to their biological and cultural characteristics. Race as a concept has been tackled from various perspectives to explain the reasons for a distinctive appearance and behavioral differences between groups of people inhabiting different geographic locations. With the entrance of the English into…

Table of Contents Introduction Apathy Dominance Motivation Ego Vulnerability Conclusion References Introduction Racism has been and unfortunately, still is one of the prominent features of American society. Two centuries after slavery abolition and decades after the Jim Crow eras demise, racial tensions in the United States have yet to come to a meaningful resolution. Indeed,…

I believe that the isolation of black citizens from the suburban households and the prevalence of white residents there considerably affected the development of American suburbia. According to Diane Harris (2013), space is constitutive of culture and equally significant in the construction of ideas about race and identity (p. 13). Middle-class citizens occupying suburban houses…

Table of Contents Old and New Racisms Evaded Racism Antiracist Racism Everyday Racism Structural Racism Conclusion References Racial issues have always been a major problem in the US due to the historical origins of the nations establishment. Therefore, its presence in educational facilities is inevitable, especially because of economic disparities, which result in private schools…

Race has had a major influence on shaping and developing American suburbs, as discussed by Harris in Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America. The metropolitan areas experienced a significant explosion of diversity associated with the waves of immigration from foreign countries. As racism represented the structure of knowledge and representations…

June 17th was the five year anniversary of the Charleston Massacre, in which nine black parishioners were shot and killed by a 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof (Smith). Given Americas tragic history of racially motivated crimes, the Charleston shooting was deemed reflective of the current state of race relations in modern America. Liberal political representatives…

The United States has the highest incidence of incarceration of its residents. Almost 2.5 million US citizens are in detention centers, and this is about one percent of the grown-up population at any particular time (Williams & Battle, 2017). African Americans form more than 30% of the imprisoned population despite their total number being among…

The recent conflicts sparked due to the violent actions of the police against African American citizens have been tearing the American community asunder, leading to multiple protests and collisions between the representatives of different political groups. Most importantly, the problem of the Black communitys voice not being heard due to the underrepresentation on the political…

Table of Contents Introduction Naomi Klein: A Credible Voice The Two Summits Obamas Race Problem Conclusion References Introduction One of the issues that have continued to cause major rifts among the earths human population is the issue of racism and discrimination. In past years, ills such as apartheid, xenophobia, and intolerance, resulted in social life…

It may seem that race issues with regard to prejudice have already been thoroughly discussed. Nevertheless, parents need special approaches to talking about skin colors and discrimination problems. The authors of the book discuss the need to have conversations with children about this topic. Moreover, they dispel the myth that emphasizing this theme will only…