Racism: A Document Analysis

In one way or another everyone encounters racism at many times in their life. Whether they are making the comments or victims of it, racism is everywhere and continues to be denied throughout the world. Neil Bissoondath, a Trinidad native, writes "I'm Not Racist But…" which discusses the types of labels given to different ethnic groups and the encouragement of racism they give. Based on the effective way it was written, Bissoondath's essay is suggested for an English 101 text.

Power can be displayed through architecture in a wide array of forms i.e. wealth, class, cleanliness, and structure. Power is described in many ways and portrayed by others differently based from experiences. In regards to architecture, my definition of power is described through overall structure and the vibe of the building. When returning to downtown Tucson, I went to the building which I thought portrayed this power, was The Cadence apartments.

There exists in our community a monster, a monster as old as mankind itself. This monster is known by many names; some call it racism, others discrimination but the only thing certain about this monstrosity is that it can be overcome if we all unite to fight against it. Racism is “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race” (Merriam Webster). Racism has multiple causes ranging from living in a secluded community, to the basic instincts of mankind which likes exemplify the differences found in others not like themselves. Racism can destroy the foundations on which a community is laid upon and can intrude upon the peace and sanction of many of its members. By informing members of the community on the reasons why racism continues to persist, encouraging acceptance and providing further education on how to relieve racial tensions, we can resolve the issue of racism once and for all.

Throughout the history of the United States, multitudes of social issues arise, fall, and repeat. In the modern day United States, many social issues are currently at hand including abortion, gender pay differences, the minimum wage, gun violence, police brutality, and seemingly excessive college tuition raises, to name a few. One issue that has been brought back to light within the last few years is racism. Many different headlines, buzzwords, and slogans shoot through media outlets including “Systematic Racism” (Bandler, 2016), “Black Lives Matter” (Black Lives Matter, n.d.), “Institutional Racism” (Michaelson, 2015), the list goes on. Many millennials and middle-aged workers are crying out in support and against these claims, calling this a social problem in an effort to show abnormality in the status quo (Davis-Sowers, 2016), as this condition has negative attributes related to individuals or the world that they live in (Leon-Guerrero).

As of 30 June 2006, the national rate of imprisonment for Indigenous Australians was 13 times higher than the rate for non-Indigenous Australians [ABS]. In modern society, there is an assumption that over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal system is due to systemic bias. According to Snowball and Weatherburn (2006), systemic racism refers to any set of arrangements, procedures or rules that results in systemic unfairness to a particular ethnic or racial group. [REF2] Snowball and Weatherburn also found that there was some small ‘residual effect of race on sentencing’ which may suggest that ‘racial bias may influence the sentencing process even if its effects are only small’. [REF2]

Should The adventures of Huckleberry Finn be banned from schools? In the past century many people have argued whether it should or shouldn’t be. In many perspectives, this book taught people what it was like back then and how it used to be in 1884. Others believe that, the book was full of racial slurs and was just racist in general. The controversy between both sides of this book has had tremendous opinions spoken and has really changed others mind about it but if you really decypher the book it isn’t as racist as people would like to believe.

Today’s society, the United States has an appealing mystery on how racism can progress without racists. The discrimination and exclusion appear to operate during the Post-Civil Rights period of Jim Crow. Inside the book, Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s, makes valuable arguments on the tremendous degree of racial inequality within the country that White Americans believe race is no longer important and justifies the apparent contradiction between their acknowledge color blindness with United States color-coded inequality. Color-blind Racism is a label as new formed of racism in American.

Racism is something that will never go away in the U.S. because the “race card” is used so commonly, in order to justify the unfairness that they feel like they are receiving. Most of the U.S would just like to move on and ignore any kind of racism but there are those out there that use it for attention reasons because, well, it’s easy. They say that Caucasians are the most racist or the starters of racism, but the truth is all people are racist more so than prejudice, because there are few people that will let the idea of racism die.

Racism plays a substantial part in our nations history; from slavery in the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century, to segregation in the early 1900s. The extreme racism of those days are long gone, and continue to just be a memory of the past. Although, prejudice still exists and it always will, because our brains are hardwired to prefer one race to another. That being said; a white person that grows up in an all white neighborhood who also attends an all-white school will very well prefer white people. Same goes for other races as well. But why do we think this way? How does our brain distinguish race and why do we prefer one group of people over another? I have gathered some evidence as to why we think this way and why our brains process racial differences the way they do.

Abstract: “From work songs and spirituals during slavery to the gospel, soul, and funk of the civil rights movement, Black music offers a new historicist interpretation of the African American experience. Through Black popular music, the struggles, faith, and joys of a people are expressed. More than mere entertainers, Black musicians are the village griots, the revisionist historians, and the voice of a people. African American music solidifies messages of societal concerns, offering

How does modern-day racism affect the minorities of America? What feeling derives from being verbally abused or insulted by another race? Members of society continue to let racism spread amongst the national community or they continue to take a stand against modern-day racism. Would members of society try to eliminate racism or let it stay? What are solutions to problems created by modern-day racism? As various individuals of society, many have suggested or attempted solutions to eliminate racism overall in general.

The idea of race has been constructed over hundreds of years, with numerous cultural implications arising from this construction. Since Johann Fredrich Blumenbach’s racial hierarchy, the inventor of a “…modern racial classification" (Gould 1994:66), the idea of race as a scientific truth justified slavery, colonisation and other existing racial structures. We see these racial hierarchies with notions of white superiority affecting events around the globe everyday; regardless of the fact that race has been proven as a flawed biological concept, with racial categories a result of ‘pseudo science’. The events following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 are evidence of the racist attitudes that linger in our society, institutionally and in everyday life – racism is more than simply individual attitudes, and is embedded in the social structures of society.

Probably, as we see in Russia, Riley, we cannot. But making disapproval known is still powerful and wears down on injustice. For those who practice such injustice, keeping it hidden is their best way to continue. And I mean that for us, as well. American racism has long been indicted throughout the world...and although those who remain insulated might not know it, the consensus of disapproval on this issue has weighed in on efforts at home to get rid of it.

After researching racism, I have found out that racism continues more and more every day. There never really has been an end to the ongoing discrimination. Trying to figure out why this continues is difficult. The only thing that is coming out of this is that we cannot let others be able to be themselves. Even to be able to walk out in public and not being judged at all is extremely hard.

Racism in the past was a lot more blatant so it was easier to identify racist persons or actions or a racist institution but now because of microaggressions it's difficult to know and because of that people who are faced with racial microaggressions are forced to internalize a lot because I know for me personally that you don't want to seem like the person that overreacts or makes everything about race even though sometimes it is about race. It's hard because I know for myself at least that I don't always feel I have the vocabulary that would make me feel confident enough to define my lived experiences in a way that makes them seem justified because there will always be someone there to dismiss those feelings based on the idea that we live