Dealing With Racial Injustice And Gender Roles

One’s identity has the ability to play a central role in one’s schooling experience and in return, affect the way they perceive the world around them. Growing up in an Asian household located in a predominately Asian American neighborhood located in the San Gabriel Valley, I always identified myself strongly to my race and took pride in being a first generation Asian American child. Race has definitely affected my schooling experience in many different ways, both positively and negatively. In addition, there were a variety of other aspects such as stereotypical gender roles and socioeconomic class status which factored into the way I learned in the U.S. education system. In this paper, I will examine how race, class, and gender played a big role throughout my schooling experience.

    In scenario 1, Jessica is a Mexican American who understands spanish when spoken too but does not speak spanish fluently. Jessica has classmates who are bilingual. They speak English and Spanish fluently. Although, in class Jessica’s classmates prefer to speak Spanish than English. Being in college, Jessica figured out that she prefers to be in a class with White people because she feels more comfortable and relaxed. After realizing that she prefers a certain group over another, Jessica became upset. Jessica has every right to be upset. I believe she feels racist because she prefers White people than Spanish people.In order for Jessica to not feel upset I believe she should look at the situation differently.

A major issue that is a result of racial tensions in my district is the fact that there are two high schools in the district that have a majority of Caucasian students and a majority of African American students. This has led to the students in those schools not often being exposed to many students of a different race. Therefore these students respond poorly to diversity, and it has led to the minority students in both of those school feeling belittled and overlooked. Similarly, these students feel adverse to diversity, and this has resulted in most of them feeling dislike for students that are different than them.

“Racism is a bad thing, you find it everywhere in the schools, the clubs and also in the streets.”

When it comes to healthcare racial disparities continue to be an ongoing issue. In fact racial disparities have been a topic of discussion since desegregation. The US Department of Health and Human Services, in 1984 published a report that called attention to the healthcare disparities. The report was called Heath, United States 1983(Dougher, 2015). Within the context of the report there lies a passage that describes the major disparities that are within the burden of illness and death that is experienced by African Americans and other minorities, “despite significant progress in the overall health of the nation” (Dougher, 2015). It was evident that there was a serious lack of health care minorities.

Charlotte Bunch once said “Sexual, racial, gender, violence, and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.” Our society experiences all of these problems and I would like to focus on the gender perspective in the 21st century and how women have had more of an influence in music than people actually realize. Men have dominated the music industry and business but women have been the underlying reason as for why men and other females have been so successful in the music scene.

There are any issues that the nation, the world, is facing today. Is it okay to travel to Africa? Is the water safe to drink? Many questions. Something that has been a question, a problem, an issue, for many years has recently become the main focus of topic; race and privilege. Those are topics that is discussed by many and somewhat dreaded by others. How can all people work collectively to address issues of race and privilege? That is a question that I will address and hopefully offer a solution to the issues in the form of a moral claim. Political philosophers or philosophies to support the claim will be incorporated. Criticisms of the claim will be anticipated and a response will be given. A Jesuit value will be presented and how the value informs and supports my claim will be discussed.

Elizabeth Leefolt shrieks, “I did not raise you to use the colored bathroom! ... This is dirty out here, Mae Mobley. You 'll catch diseases! No no no!” (Stockett 95). Kathryn Stockett shows us that Elizabeth does not want her daughter, Mae Mobley, using a colored bathroom. The event proves racism was and still a large component in society. The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, explains that “separation” of races are not lawful, as shown by the bathroom situation, Medgar Evers’ murder, and the firing of Constantine, Skeeter’s beloved maid.

For my Final project in WS, I have chosen to talk about the oppression of women, and women of color. To narrow more in on the topic, I have chosen to discuss the oppression of women in the work force and all the different forms of oppression women face. Oppression is defined as, “A situation in which people are governed in an unfair and cruel way and prevented from having opportunities and freedom,” (dictionary.cambridge.org). Oppression can be caused by many different things. People can feel oppressed because they are being compared to the opposite gender. People can be oppressed being compared to other age groups. And people can feel oppressed when being compared to different races. Women of color feel oppressed because they are constantly being compared to white women, and some may say they do not always have the same privileges as others. I have enjoyed reading and researching about this topic, but at the same time have had a hard time truly understanding it. To be completely transparent I am a privileged white girl and throughout my whole life I have never felt that I faced oppression. I have witnessed it, but never experienced it. The oppression I have witnessed has only been in the work force; which I will discuss later on.

Women of color are already seen as women that are expected to take that extra step in order to been seen as part of some type of success or breakthrough. That being said, as a women of color I believe that we are strong human beings. I believe that we do have to work harder in the world we live in for two reasons; we are females and we are of color. This notion may not seem fair, which it isn’t but it’s what is displayed in our society. If there was a feminism group with a mixture of women of color placed in the mixed, I think it would have a stronger impact on many different topics, especially systems of oppression. If women of all races are seen as a common force fighting for the same thing, then absolutely it will impact an entire generation.

Without any doubt, issues of racial injustice is a major social problem in our society. It not only affects how people view each other, but also how people interact and cooperate with each other. A lot of people are not aware of the racial issues that are still occurring in the United States, and even worldwide. It is an immense economic and social problem that is faced in communities. There are different forms of racism that is still seen currently in the judicial system, school system, and work system.

From the mid-18th century until present day, Africans and people of African descent, as well as female poets who advocated for equal rights began to write down their personal stories of how slavery and social restrictions have impacted their lives. At first they would write in small paragraphs and poems, but later they would create collections of slave and feminist literature, that once published reached a range of people across the world. They would often write literature that would express their personal thoughts while exploring the impacts of oppression, restriction of freedom and religious beliefs had. Slavery is easily defined as a system in which concepts of property law were applied to human beings so that they are treated as property instead of obtaining their basic human rights. Slavery can be found in many forms throughout history; but, some of the most well-known forms of slavery were that of African-Americans and “white” women. These impacts of slavery had many physical, legal and psychological negatives on those affected by such cruelties. This later aided in creating one of the most intriguing and worldwide literary movements in the history of literature. In 1773 an enslaved woman named Phillis Wheatley wrote and published a collection of slave poems in London that sparked the public’s interests. Her writings aided in the understanding that African people were just as moral and

Historically, there have been group of people who have always been marginalized through the history of time. The Black race is not any different from this issue, and throughout history of the world they have went through a lot changes from slavery to human right to now social injustice. Through all this different times and trails there have been one constant term the seems to come up that will in no doubt their ability to function as normal human beings. That is Sports. For centuries from the romans ‘gladiators’ to our WWE Super Stars, sports heroes have always been very instrumental part of the society and that’s not different in the black communities’ times of social injustice in forefront of our country history these induvial are as very

Society is complex and diverse. In such a diverse society, individuals may have different life experiences to one another. While some individuals have positive viewpoints in the society, others may differ in an negative aspect. In this socio-autobiography, I argue that the society is an nightmare as humans develop a whole range of complex sociological concepts. The following paragraphs will explain the struggle of my life experiences being influenced by using the concepts of gender, race and ethnicity and power.

It is a common fantasy of science fiction writers to imagine a world rid of the social ills of our own–where disease, famine, poverty, and even the hierarchies of race, gender, ability, and class so well known to us are distant memories from a bygone era. These writers, many of whom are white men, in their own eyes might envision these progressive futures, freer societies than ours, as being written specifically for the oppressed–a distraction, meant to give hope for humanity’s future, from the injustices of their present. In the majority of cases, however, they do so with little success, instead mirroring the systems of oppression they sought to subvert in their works. Despite the omission of race and gender oppression their authors sought to implement in their creation, the worlds of both The Stars My Destination and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are occupied in part by the racialized bodies of men and women, with the women in particular struggling in their settings for the recognition and affirmation of humanity afforded their narratives’ white-coded, male protagonists. Moreover, these attempts by the science fiction genre’s predominately white, male authors to leave racism and sexism out of their work, while perhaps rooted in a sense of progressivism, are in fact more a representation of their real-world desire to “move on” from these systems of oppression without sacrificing their privilege inherent to these systems’ continued existence.