Dear Students, this is a sample of a weekly post. I have more to choose from. For this assignment a key take away from the RACE Project is the anthropological perspective that race is a social construction. In a society that believes in racializing human variation, meanings are attributed to how a person looks. Such constructions of meanings and appearance serve, and are perpetuated by, those in power. This power materializes in access to and gain from resources and opportunities. It manifests in discriminatory practices and prejudice that criminalizes, holds up barriers, in the US instance, primarily against African Americans (though it is also applicable to all People of Color). Racism is the alibi for dehumanizing “others” and giving one self the permission to resort to discriminate. As an exercise, imagine this: how would your “lived experience” be different if US society eschewed racism in thought and practice? If the notion of race did not exist what might the government, our leaders, our prisons, our universities, the distribution of wealth, corporate offices, wages, our neighborhoods, marriage– our society, look like? This was the first assignment.
“(History)The idea and understanding of race was not been as clearly defined in the past as it is now. Prior to the 1500, there is very little to denote races (in publications), there are differences in people and people have always had to deal with variants in people, some in a good way and some in a negative fashion. Since the colonization of the United States, moving through the 1600s and specifically the 1700s, race has been developed as a tool to help validate behaviors by those in power. Whites have developed ideologies, with the support of the scientific arena, that promote the idea that the white race is superior to all other non white people. These ideas and concepts allowed Whites to enslave blacks and other minority in order to gain economical and social status. (Race and Human Variation) This history created a problem we must now deal with, it is becoming evident that we are all cut from the same fabric, we just have different tints and nuances in texture, and the problem is the ground work established in the past that identifies the outward variants without looking at the biological data as fact that whites are superior. Stereotypes we have developed or taught are one area we can change, that will help reduce the level of discrimination amongst races. (Lived Experiences) This oversight is used to promote whites versus black, more often, in the USA to affect a multitude of areas, more black and non whites are stopped by police, more blacks and non whites are denied access to lending through major institutions, and even diseases have been linked to so call Race, with little scientific proof to justify this assumption. Our daily live experiences are a direct result of we are viewed by our skin color or identification of race. One of the problems encountered today is how we can help educate individuals on how to view differences in each other as a positive attribution to the diversity of humanity and not as a tool to be used against certain populations or individuals. There is more information gathered through the work anthropologist are doing now, than in the past 50 year or more. The amount of people interested this field of study is expanding not only in size, but in the variety of people involved. There is a larger variety of people, race, ethnicity and gender, which are interested in this field. This will no doubt produce a broader understanding of humanity as a whole, the main issue will be who believe the information, will the power struggle still override the understanding we all human beings and therefore lead to better relationships amongst our populations that will allow individuals a better opportunity to be the best they can be without oppression due to race.”
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