Evidence Of Bias In Racism

The hierarchical aspect of America’s contemporary gender system is reinforced through the use of language. We frequently associate biology and the sciences with objectivity, but in “The egg and the Sperm,” Emily Martin argues that it is not outside the socially constructed idea of gender (485). The association of gender norms at the cellular level suggests that the process of gendering is natural beyond alteration; yet, this is merely a result of the implantations of social imagery on representations of nature. Literary works can subtly emphasize the stereotypical differences between males and females in a way that goes unnoticed, consequently ingraining these concepts into our brain and thought processes. In many biological texts, the egg is described as “drift(ing)” and being “swept” throughout the process (Martin 489). This denotes passiveness—a clearly feminine characteristic that society would deem to be appropriate for women. On the other hand, the sperm “streamlines” and

As groups continue to use science against one another, stereotypes are taking over the world and creating negativity within society. As women are being told they are not smart, African Americans are being told they are unequal, and Muslims are being told they are all terroristic by nature based on the science that claims their inferiority and stereotypes; peace cannot prevail and war cannot contain. Scientific research and social correlations are not viewable through the same ideas, or else stereotypes continue to rampage on claiming proof through science; and ultimately groups will continue to prove their stereotypes wrong through violent and hysteric means. Inaccurate scientific research is encouraging the social beliefs of the inferiority of certain groups, and creating an unjust and socially biased

The environment in which one is born in has a way of embedded certain ideas into one’s head. Through socialization and personal experience, these ideas are formed and many people are never consciously aware of where these ideas stemmed from. Implicit bias is an unconscious thought process that many individuals are never aware of due to its intrinsic nature. The United States of America, which may be a country rich in diversity and culture, is also a place that is struggling to overcome a history of racism, oppression, and prejudice that has been prevalent since its founding. Over time, we have experienced less explicit racial discrimination and bias but implicit racial biases seems to be a vast concern worth exploring in the

For this assignment, I’ve decided to complete the Race Implicit Bias Test. I decided to take that test because I wanted to see which race I had an automatic preference toward. I expected my results to be either be neutral or have a slight preference to White people to Black people.

“I can’t breathe,” imagine having to hear your father, son, or brother desperately gasp for air while murmuring those words, “I can’t breathe.” It’s heart wrenching, but now visualize him being viscously choked from behind by a police officer. The predicament is startling and unseen. Your loved one has surrendered but the officer has no intention of relinquishing his grip, restricting the airway, making it incredibly difficult to breathe. Suddenly, the police officer forces your loved one’s motionless body to the ground, proceeding by mashing his face into the pavement. Slowly loosing conscious, he lifelessly lays on the Staten Island concrete. Nobody performs CPR, not even the ambulance upon their arrival. Your loved one is pronounced dead at the hospital, and the officer who stole his life walks a free man.

Institutional racism is hard to identify because it is “built into the structure of society” (McNamara & Burns, 2009, p.14). Many times people do not realize they are committing this type behavior and think they are treating everybody the same (McNamara & Burns, 2009). A very good example occurred in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in August of 2005. The government thought it was doing the community good when it planned to tear down 5,000 damaged apartments in public housing and replace them with mixed income housing, but what they did displaced large numbers of African-Americans from their homes and the area (Henkel et al, 2006). The good thought was there, but not the results that were drastically needed. Another example

In this article, “Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions” (2015), social scientist Sendhil Mullainathan interprets numerous amounts of case studies of how skin color affects African-Americans in normal routine things such as finding a job, buying a car or selling an IPod for example.

Martin investigates how cultural stereotypes of the two sexes are subtly incorporated into descriptions of the egg and sperm in scientific papers. She expresses that giving stereotypical roles to the egg and sperm has the “power to naturalize our social conventions about gender” (501). By associating the egg with feminine traits and the sperm with masculine traits, scientists make these

Race and racism are a worldwide concern since they have effects on both intellectual and scientific grounds. Biologically, humans can be classified into distinct races using consistent and reliable biological criteria. This can be done by use of genetic traits that is also depicted in the physical characteristic of an individual, like skin color, hair texture, eye and nose shape, and body type. These traits also vary in different geographical areas and hence all traits have distinct geographical distributions with humans in classified races. Therefore, the biological study supports that races are valid scientifically.

Ruth Hubbard, a previous Harvard University biology professor, discusses how society politically examines biology and aims to change this public notion. As Ariel Cohen addresses traditional gender roles, Hubbard’s concept directly relates. A person should not be biologically denied an opportunity solely based upon their gender. This book further supports the fact on how historical gender expectations still affect the general public’s opinions.

In “Racial Cognition and the Ethics of Racial Bias”, the authors aim to draw attention to implicit bias testing, and to question ethical dilemmas this testing raises. They offer these claims:

Racism includes belief systems and practices that try to legitimize, or cause, the unequal dissemination of benefits or rights among distinctive social groups. Cutting edge variations are frequently situated in social view of biological differences between people of different groups. These can take the form of social activities, practices or convictions, or political frameworks that consider distinctive races to be positioned as better or substandard than the other, taking into account the shared inheritable attributes, capacities, or qualities. It might hold that individuals from diverse races ought to be dealt with differently (Andrews, 2015).

The salience of genomics in current discussions of gender and sex is what makes the domain of genomics a point of feminist concern. Historically, science tends to support popular views of sex and gender due to pressures on scientists to produce empirical data that can be interpreted to support or “prove” current societal views as correct. Feminists, philosophers and other critical thinkers cannot afford to leave genetics to the geneticists; governments, corporations and other bodies of power will not simply acquiesce their influence on scientists. It is problematic when an ideological monopoly forms and there is too much influence of one system of thought, it limits the inventiveness and progressiveness of a society. The act of researching and gathering empirical data is not a task to be shifted onto the public, genomics should be left to the geneticists, however, the interpretation and propagation of information is the responsibility of the critical reader and governing bodies in science. In her book Sex Itself, Sarah Richardson provides the feminist concept of gender criticality as a tool to both produce and interpret science in a way that recognizes the ways in which gender informs the research and results.

Gender stereotypes have existed since the beginning of modern man. We've all heard them before; male dominance and female weakness, a controlled male and a flustered female, aggression and passion, and many others that all basically boil down to the same thing. Emily Martin, in her essay entitled The Egg and the Sperm, takes this problem of gender stereotype to a new and much more serious level. As an anthropologist, Martin is concerned with the socio-cultural impacts on many different aspects of everyday life, including biology. In doing her research for this article, Martin was trying to uncover suspicions she had about socio-cultural gender stereotypes, and the affects they had on the diction used to describe egg and sperm

Imagine everyday of your life, knowing the fact that everywhere you go, everything you do is being observed and judged. Imagine walking into a store and having someone watch your every movement thinking that you’re going to steal an item, or reveal a bomb from under your clothes. Imagine being mocked and judged because you're "different".