Race And Gender Discrimination : Contemporary Trends

I never put much thought into social inequality because of two main reasons, which are that I see every as equals and believe we should be treated as such and because I come from the privileged ethnicity/race group. At first, I believed that prejudice, discrimination, and privilege were terms used to describe a past where every viewed themselves as superior or inferior to one another just because the color of their skin. Nevertheless, after watching White Like Me by Tim Wise, I now understand that social inequality and racism, although not as severe as in the past, still exists today.

Social inequality is the issue pertaining to the lack of housing, health care, education, employment opportunities, and status. It is the dismissal of people from participation in what we, the members of society distinguish as being valuable, important, socially desirable, and personally worthwhile. There are many different perspectives on social inequality within our society; the three areas I am going to focus on are those of the Functionalist, Conflict and Symbolic-Interactionist.

Despite Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law which bans gender and race discrimination in employment, advancement, and termination, ethnic discrimination and prejudice in the workplace is still a very pertinent issue. In fact, racial discrimination is the most common kind of discrimination workers report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency in charge of enforcing Title VII. Prejudice in the workplace is shown in a variety of forms, is either obvious or subtle, and at times may occur without employers even realizing it. As the General Manager of a popular restaurant in Texas, I witnessed such racial discrimination and prejudice firsthand and saw how detrimental it is to the success of

When discussing race, having the right intention is not nearly enough to ensure progress in racial tensions; as such, only positive, tangible action can be the catalyst for change in race discourse. This general rule can help when looking at the concept of colorblindness as a supposedly well-meaning myth, which realistically only serves to continue racist attitudes and systems. Using a critical lens to determine the harm caused by colorblindness can diminish the impact and eventually eradicate a source of racist microagressions. Patricia Williams explores the inherently harmful idea of colorblindness in her book Seeing a Colorblind Future: The Paradox of Race, through exemplary anecdotal evidence. This paper aims to analyze one such anecdote to fully explain the pervasive and malicious way colorblindness is employed in everyday life.

Colorblindness is the term in racism that best assumes to end the racial biasness and discrimination. Without the respect to ethnicity, race or culture, the concept of colorblindness is believed to end the concept of racism (colorblindness alone, however, is not enough). However, the minorities group sometimes finds the concept of colorblindness quite biased. It is because they feel it as a way which tries to “end” the racism by using the color that they have as a person. The color blinded person cannot distinguish any color either its white or black. So the black people think that how can they end the racism when the concept of colorblindness completely forgets black color? But personally, I think that colorblindness can help to normalize the racial discrimination. It might seem like it’s not going to help instantly but eventually, it’s going to bring some positive result in terms of racial discrimination and biasness. Even in the test that I took, I was identified as colorblind. This helped me go through the test very well. I also believe that my

An individualistic, non-discriminatory approach being progressive is what makes colorblindness a dangerous and destructive concept, because it ignores the problem, therefore, the attempt at a solution to systematic and collective racism. In this paper, I will identify the flaws in both racist imitation of colorblindness and the concept and execution of colorblindness itself. The purpose will be to signify the importance of

When I hear the term colorblind it makes me think we are supposed to ignore part of the human. It's like they're trying to tell us that race no longer “matters” in American society. I personally hate this term, if you ignore something and act as if a problem doesn't exist. It just gets bigger and bigger and doesn't go away. Then negative feeling or the issues become worse or more intense, especially through long-term neglect or indifference. It's just like anything in life if you ignore something by the time you go back to it, the problems harder to clean up.

Colorblindness: Why it is wrong, and racist. Colorblindness is a term people use to express that they don’t see a persons skin color, race, ethnicity, etc. And many believe this is good and positive and could be an end to racism, but I’m here to tell you that being “colorblind” and not seeing race, is racist. ¾ young white Americans say that society would be better off if we didn’t acknowledge race.

The idea of a colorblind society assumes colorblindness is a something we should hope to achieve. But does colorblindness help or fight racism? Colorblindness treats racial inequality as prejudice on an individual basis. This enables it to ignore what has happened in history. By being colorblind, we are fixated on a past understanding of race and racism. Embracing color blindness eliminates racial awareness and thus eliminates the need for accountability for the white supremacy that exists in America

that asserts the key to ending discrimination is to treat all individuals within society as

The norm of colorblindness has been used to fuel racism therefore it has not helped eradicate anti-blackness and other forms of racism in society because it ignores the struggles blacks face for being black. Anti-blackness is achieved by the dehumanization of black bodies by society in order to create a negative image of black lives. This dehumanization then allows members of society kill blacks, discriminate blacks, and assault blacks with impunity. Anti-blackness creates the idea that the black body is always the perpetuator and not the victim. Colorblindness is the idea that in today’s society race does not play a role in one’s life. If race does not play a

Gender bias, also known as sexism, is a full of attitudes, laws, taboos, preferences, and behaviors that differentiates and discriminates against either sex. These may be a position of which male dominance and female subjugation in the modern society. It could also be a form of sexual stereotypes between men and women, these are commonly experienced in employment versus other positions. A final place that discrimination is faced is the academic environment, the female to male ratios are not in sync in certain programs and courses because of this and it is pressuring men and women to not go into certain fields and do what they love and please. Most advertisements on Television, magazines, newspapers, online ad’s, use a charged sexually image with a female as the star. Women are to be a pleasure for men, and nothing else. Many people have different opinions on genders and sexuality and that is okay, but sometimes you just need to keep them to yourselves.

According to article 16, “Race and Gender Discrimination Contemporary trends,” Sterba expresses how women are asked if they were harassed or not in their work force. In pink collar jobs to blue collar jobs. Women get sexually harassed in a lot of jobs. For example, the author states, “According to the National Law Journal, 64 percent of women in pink-collar jobs reported being sexually harassed and 60 percent of 3,000 women lawyers at 250 top law firms said that they had been harassed at some point in their careers” (Sterba, 125). The video “Killing us Softly 4,” Killbourne states, “It also does something even more insidious. It creates a climate in which there is a widespread violence against women” (Killbourne, 2:13-219). She was stating

Because of the economic, social, and political challenges, many African American have to confront adversities that rarely happen to people of other races. Racial segregation exists in many areas, including in the housing, healthcare, educational, and employment sectors. If one’s race is being prejudiced, women in that race are suffering from a double prejudice, both racism and sexism. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, my friend Tiana is an African American graduated from New York University (NYU) with a major in Gender and Sexuality Studies in 2012. Since she was a child, Tiana had suffered from racial and gender discrimination for many years in many respects, such as education, shopping, and medical care. Growing up in a disadvantaged

Our social justice issue is gender discrimination. Gender Discrimination is a major thing going on in our world today. Therefore, gender discrimination happens in things such as sports, education, health, employment, laws, and in different countries. Gender discrimination was a major thing in the past, and is still a major thing today. Men continually think women are weak, and so women are targeted more in crimes. They also think that women won't stand up for themselves, and women continually let men bring them down because they aren't brave enough. In jobs they believe women won't work, and that women aren't capable enough to do the job, so women end up getting paid less or have to work ridiculously short hours. Today in our century, women are targeted more than men because they are considered weak. Being labeled weak makes women are more vulnerable to at least one form of abuse. 1 in 3 women are abused in some form at a time of their life by a man. Women are targeted for crimes, such as home break-ins, because if they live on their own, they are thought to not be able to defend themselves that well. Women are also being killed all the time. In India, women are burned to death if they can't meet financial requirements, while men aren't. In Egypt, women are killed if they do something considered unclean in their family or outside their family. In South Asia more than 2 million baby girls are killed or abandoned to die because they are considered a financial burden to the