Racism and Its Affects

Racism is an ideology that is based on the principle that human beings can be subdivided and ranked into categories as being inferior or superior. It’s worth mentioning that in recent years the concept or notion of racism has changed. Racism in the post-racial twenty-first century is now marked by subtlety that discriminates against individuals through unnoticeable or seemingly passive methods. Although overt racism has decreased since the 1960s, it has been supplemented by what is called colorblind racism,” which refers to “contemporary racial inequality as the outcome of nonracial dynamics” (p. 455-456).

The idea of racism has evolved and has become less prevalent throughout the last century. Schools and public areas are unsegregated, voting rights, racial slurs being considered as unacceptable behavior etc. American sociologist and race theorist, Howard Winant states that’s “The ensuing approaches increased recognition of racial injustice and inequality, but did not overcome the discriminatory processes” (Winant,2000)Although the United states has come a long way to try to end racism, one cannot ignore the fact that it still exists. It is something that may seem invisible in society, but everybody knows that it still thrives and that it’s racial attitudes affect the way our society functions. One of these invisible forms of

Racism is defined as an ideology that perpetuates the social domination of one racial group by another. On page 137, in Social Work: An Empowering Profession, it states that “numerous racial groups in the United States continually struggle with the deleterious effects of racial

Racism can take many forms, ranging from verbal abuse to outright physical attacks to a person or property. Racism can also be non-verbal, for example denying a person from a minority ethnic background a job or entry to a restaurant or shop, purely

“Racism still occupies the throne of our nation,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pronounced just before his assassination. Almost fifty years later, we are still faced with the same unchanged threat that makes the words of Dr. King true. As individuals, communities, and a proud nation we have made an everlasting fingerprint for the children of our future, yet we lack the strength of acknowledgment to alter the course of racial discrimination and conquer prejudice. Has the formation of structural discrimination rooted itself too deeply into our subconscious that hope for rehabilitation seems unattainable? As a nation, we voted a man with a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya as the first multiracial President of the United States. Racism has not been eradicated because of the racial background of President Barrack Obama and we have not accomplished victory because of his African decent because prejudice has been too deeply fixed within our society. Social circumstance and the insinuation of race continue to change over time, precisely because race has become a social construct that serves political ends. The prior and present leaders of our nation organize, generate, and endorse the laws and public policy that ensure racism continues to maintain itself against people of color. Our historically racist foundation, the rising effects of structural discrimination, and the view of modernized racism all actively participate in shaping our structural

The result of this collective standardization of right and wrong usually leads to change for the greater American good. However, it seems that our collective “ego” cannot keep our “id” in check where racism is the primary focus. The resulting effect is pervasive systematic discrimination and individual desensitization to hate that causes a negative impact on people of color’s psychological and physiological well-being.

Racism is discrimination directed toward someone’s race. Racism took place during the Jim Crow Era, the Civil Rights Era and it still happens today.

Racism in a pre-Civil Right Era was violent, abhorrently blatant, and prevalent to a fault. Post Jim-Crow, racism has diminished so much so that it barely exists; or so society likes to believe. In actuality, racism has been transformed under a different lens where racism still stands as the structures and functions of American society but have been so normalized and legalized that white Americans feel as the country has progressed in terms of racism. This lens, one that Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has defined as colorblind in his book Racism without Racists, explain how racism still dictate how people of color live and suffer in contrast to their white American counterparts despite the racial “progress” that society so desperately want to believe. Colorblind racism can be defined as the belief or behavior that racism no longer exists at all or like it once did in the past by disregarding how race plays a role in minorities lives and thus continuing to prop up the same racist structures and foundations that was at play decades ago before the alleged “progress” of the post civil rights era. What makes colorblind ideology a problem at its basis is held within the fact that white Americans know that race exists yet they both subconsciously and willfully ignore how the sociopolitical and economic aspects of the nation work to keep white Americans ahead while minorities struggle to survive in a world that essentially ignores them. A prime example of colorblind racism in a modern

Racism refers to beliefs, attitudes, actions, or behaviors that are targeted against an individual or a group of people solely because of innate characteristics such as race or skin color (Pachter, L. M., Bernstein, B. A., Szalacha, L. A., & Coll, C. G., 2010). Pachter et al. (2010) discussed how racism is expressed in two forms: racial

American society likes to believe that race relations in our country no longer exist. We do not want to hear about the need for favorable action or about the growing numbers of white supremacist groups. In order to settle our collective conscious, we put aside the disturbing fact that racism is alive. It hides everywhere in the media, the workplace, and it heavily impacts the education of minority students nationwide.

Despite the hard fought years of abuse and the milestone of achieving an African American president, racism is more concealed now due to Civil Right Laws. Because of this, America is now using incidental and institutional racism to somewhat justify their acts. Statistics show that African Americans are what makes up most of the population within prisons and there are countless acts of police brutality killings towards unarmed African American victims. Not to mention the everyday challenges African-American minorities have to face when dealing with recreational events, job applications, or even shopping. But the main question that is still stirring is how did we get here, and what do we have to do to help prevent and beat modern day racism.

Racism or discrimination usually manifests when an imbalance exists, where one group dominates and may exert power over another in some way, be it by accident, oversight or design.

Let’s start with the definition of racism. Racism refers to the belief that race is the primary determinant of human capacities, that a certain race is inherently superior or inferior to others, and/or that individuals should be treated differently based on their ascribed race.

Racist abuse, harassment or propaganda, physical attack or property damage are examples of the racism. Racism has some extreme examples such as genocide.

Racism and the effects of racism can be seen anywhere. In the hallways of the high school, the streets, housing, neighborhoods, cities, and more, one thing is seen, and that 's segregation, which is ultimately caused by racism. Walking in the hallways at school, chances are that you’ll see a group of whites, a group of Hispanics, and a group of African Americans, but rarely do you see these three groups interacting with each other. Racism has been made a part of people’s everyday lives, a border posed by racism: segregation. Racism and its effects can not only be seen around us but can also be traced throughout countless readings in HWOC this year. Almost every literary work focuses on the topic or underscores at its effects, and today, you can walk into any library or bookstore and find something, whether it be a news article or chapter book, regarding racial conflict. This alone is evidence of how racism has integrated our society and continues to inform and manipulate our minds. The literature we have been exposed to this past year is a reflection of society, similar to a reflection in a mirror showing us the piece of hair sticking up in the back, literature is showing us the problem so it can be addressed.