The Importance Of Race In My Writing

What is race? How many races are there? What are the genes that separate each race? How many genes are there? What do evolutionists, scientists, or anthropologists have to say about race? And even more importantly, what role does race play in your life? When I was a young boy maybe 6 or 7 years old, I had a friend of a different race who was particularly interested in answering the unsolved mysteries of our world. He explained to me that he was made "some place different than black boys." I took a good look at the both of us and determined that this must be correct. As I grew older, I felt ashamed and embarrassed that I ever believed this. And as I got even older, I started to question whether or not other people were told the same story.

In the late 1980’s, interest in critically examining whiteness grew, inspired by Critical Race Theory. White authors including David Roediger, Noel Ignatiev and Ruth Frankenberg began to explore whiteness. Other scholars of color continued delve deeper into the study of whiteness including George Yancy , Cheryl Harris, Sarah Ahmed and Gloria

When speaking about race a lot of people like to claim that we do not need to talk about it and racism is over. That we all “understand” what race is, yet as stated in “What is Race and Why Does It Matter So Much?” scholars can’t seem to agree what race is. Race should matter as it can help shape who we are and create an identity. A few experiences with stereotypes though most think they are anything wrong as it just shows how each member of the race is similar. Race shouldn’t matter when it comes to anything really, especially through school and applying for jobs as how would that be relevant. Yet race is a concept that surrounds everything and yet is supposedly not taking place in anything.

During the course of the years, the idea of race has changed, from being used to classify people only on their physical attributes to now classifying people on actions and behavior. The race concept has been so fixed in society, it led to segregation in schools, work, religion, almost anything you can think of. It has been difficult to look at a person without forming stereotypes on the basis of color, identity, ethnicity, or language. Even though the theory of race has impacted the world negatively it also has some positives. Today, race is considered when applying for a job, elective posts, and sports, and personal decisions like marriage. “That Word Black,” written by Langston Hughes has similar ideas as another short piece entitled “In Living Color” by a Student named Jana King. These pieces are similar because both go into depth about race and what it means today.

1. Explain why scholars and others say that the term “race” should not be used.

Every kid in her age is excited to go to school except this little African American girl. She hates going to school and being isolated from others. Everyone does not want to become her friends or even talk to her not because she made any mistakes, but because she was born in a different race. Races by definition are groups of people who have common histories and are genetically and culturally related. America for decades has promoted diversity and welcomed all ethnics around the globe. However, it does not mean that race is not a sensitive issue anymore. By seeing numerous racisms and divisions occur today, race in America still matters.

Already knowing much about this topic from previous experience and from others. It doesn't take much to know about the black experience. The topic can either be self taught or learning from the people who we grew up with. I know many things dealing with the black experience; hate, segregation, religion, discrimination, and white privilege. It’s exceedingly important to me since it’s good to take on knowledge about the past; helping in the future, so that we don’t walk in the world blindly, thinking everyone is reunited. I can relate to this topic because I am black and most of the people around me are black so we know how it feels to be here in America where our people were disowned and still today are. This topic keeps me engaged because of knowing more about our history helps us feel important and know that we did come something astounding.

Is race real? That is a question many people have been asking for many decades. The history of the idea of race was constructed during the 18th century during the times of African Slavery. The Englishmen prior had exploited Indians and Irish people, with noticing that they were not capable of tolerating certain diseases and work conditions they decided to exploit Africans. Therefore, the Englishman realized that African people were more fit in doing their job demands because they previously had farming experience and were immune to the old world diseases. As time passed many more Africans were being shipped to the New World and being exploited to work under horrible conditions and no pay. Towards the end of the eighteen century, there was a

Unwittingly or quite knowingly people have built systems of inequalities around race but people have also built identity, friendships, and college mates around it. Nevertheless, several people I recently interviewed never appeared to be certain when race was a good thing or when it was a bad thing to talk about, which in my mind leaves us all struggling with a particularly intimidating question: When should we talk as if race matters?

Have you ever had to deal with racism in your life? If you're caucasian, like me then the answer is probably no. This is what makes stories like rosa park’s harder to relate to. The book “Black Like Me” By John Howard Griffin details the social experiment of a journalist dying his skin black and then moving to the Deep South.

As far as the topic of race goes, there are a great deal of ways in which race was critical

More importantly, ethnicity has been an impact in our lifetime. To illustrate, in the article about the Ferguson, racism is an important role. It shows that it was similar to the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird,” of the blacks and whites against each other. Mr. Barack Obama states, “communities of colors aren’t just making this up,” meaning that colored people are not just giving advice to where they want to cause problems, but saying how something felt can be touched as a hard situation to loved ones. Consequently, this case on the Ferguson expresses the life of a Michael Brown’s death and the way his skin colored

It is quite evident in Erasure the protagonist, Thelonious Ellison (Monk), initially did not consider race to be an issue which should have merit on neither who he was as a writer, nor as an individual. Monk identifies himself to the reader as anything but a person whose heritage happens to be of African-American descent, not because of any disdain for the origin of his roots, but rather because he believed it should have no bearing on his identity, especially as a writer. Ellison, in the first paragraph of the story, identifies himself as "a writer of fiction," and later goes on to elaborate a bit more by stating he is also "a son,

Race and ethnicity has influenced my life in many ways and up until now I am living with the discriminations that comes with not belonging to a certain group of people. Worldwide racial discrimination race is common and even more common here in the United States. People make choices subconsciously based on the racial group they belong to. Individuals have preference of people of their own ethnicity over people of a different ethnic group.

If I were writing a novel about my community I would discuss the issue of racism. Racism is an issue that I believe should be given more attention and ultimately resolved. In my own community; as well as many others, there is a large amount of discrimination and hate. Personally, I am strictly against it and would like to educate people about the issue. To try and hinder the continuation of this growing trend of discrimination and hate, I would make people more aware of the repercussions. Hopefully in doing so, people can grow to become more tolerant of people's differences and learn to coexist peacefully.