The Velvet Glove Analysis

Although ignorance is a major factor in the creation of racial biases and stereotypes, I claim that racism is not due to a lack of knowledge, but rather concrete ideas of right and wrong being ingrained into our minds at a young age, causing our worldviews to come from what society has taught us to be acceptable. I say that because our grade school curriculum tends to provide such concrete definitions of right and wrong,

Cultural influence affects not only the formation of a stereotype, but also its acceptance. According to the tripartite model of attitudes, a stereotype is the cognitive component of prejudiced attitudes. Many contemporary theorists suggest prejudice is an inevitable consequence of the stereotyping process (Devine, 1989). This makes learning attitudes and stereotypes of social groups inevitable. There is strong evidence that stereotypes are established in children’s memories before they have the ability to use cognitive processing to accept or reject the stereotypes. In this developmental process, the stereotype is easier to access for the child than personal beliefs; therefore, the culture an individual lives in makes it impossible not to apply stereotypes in daily life (Devine, 1989).

I survey the body language, facial expressions and the possible words or phrases that can be interpreted more than one way. Because of this course I am more tolerant to people who are prejudiced. The most personally influential chapter to me was chapter two in the assigned textbook. The chapter introduced me to how stereotypes are formed and the consequences of categorizing people. Studies show that in order to simplify the workload of the brain, we place people into social categories based on previous experience and peer learning. “Social categorization involves thinking about people primarily as members of social groups rather than as individuals” (Blaine, 22).I found that I engage in this practice, but the automatic groups do not usually have negative stereotypes attached; When I meet a negative exception, they are then sorted into a subgroup.The second most influential chapter …..Chapter four of the textbook details the components of prejudices. the stereotypes and instances of prejudice enabled me

Studs Terkel (1980) relates C. P. Ellis' story about how his experiences organizing a union opened his eyes about how corporations treat minorities, and resulted in a new understanding of the people around him even though he was a former Klansman. I have never been in the Klan or organized a union, but a similar turning point for me came for me when I saw the movie "The Eye of the Storm," about Jane Elliot's experiment with white schoolchildren in Riceville, Iowa. This experiment demonstrated to me how children respond to cultural cues first from their parents and family members, but then through the institutions they are forced to participate in like school; the church; other families and supervisory agencies. If even white children can be taught to discriminate against other white children on something as arbitrary and insubstantial as eye color, then how easy it must be to train them to respond in denigrating ways to people with different skin color, body shapes or language for example, I realized. This changed my perspective on racism and ethnicity and while I have since done much research and believe education is the secret, the way I have decided to implement change in my own life, is to speak out when I hear someone making a denigrating comment.

Racism is an evolving problem that we have face in our society for generations. This issue is evolving because it opens itself to all components of life. Sport is no stranger to involvement with racism, in fact it has been a platform which sparks change or intensifies the state of racism in society. Racism refers to the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races (Oxford Dictionary). Historically racism is an ideology systematically developed as the Europeans made their journey to the New World to explore and colonized the globe and the differences in it. This Great expedition was the excuse used to justify colonialism, slavery and genocide. This racial ideology has manifested itself in to the sports world in creating the modern-day apartheid which resides in the form of the black athlete in the major conferences of the NCAA. In this paper, I will be breaking down: the systemic institution of the NCAA, the generational racism the black athlete faces and the intuitional racism faced on campus to prove the existence of modern day apartheid.

People also acquire attitudes by socializing with other groups, like teachers, television, parents and even religious groups. “Social learning approaches to stereotyping and prejudice suggest that attitudes and behavior toward members of minority groups are learned through the observation of parents and other individuals” (Myers, 1996). Investigators have found that differences in self-monitoring influence the link between attitudes and behavior. Individuals who are low in self-monitoring strive to make certain that their actions match their principals, values, and attitudes (Snyder, 1982).If a child that was raised in a white family that has negative attitudes towards blacks, will have principals, values and attitudes against black people.

Racialization is the process in which etho-racial groups get marginalized on the racial hierarchy that is constructed by White supremacists (Henry & Tator, 2010, pp. 319). Sports are social institutions that reinforce racial hierarchies in Canada (Henry & Tator, 2010, pp. 243). Although it is commonly denied that there is any racism in Canada, racism in sports has manifested through dominant media narratives, surveillance, and imagery in sports.

Furthermore, there’s the implication that children are born with racial prejudices. Aibileen says “I want to yell so loud that baby girl can hear me that dirty ain’t a color, disease ain’t the Negro side of town. I want to stop that moment from coming – and it come in every white child’s life – when they start to think that colored folks are not as good as white” (Stockett 96). Prejudices are not born in a person, they are taught by the older generations.

Author of the magazine article “Understanding Unconscious Bias and Unintentional Racism,” Jean Moule elaborates on this issue; “An example is Steele and Aaronson’s (1995) work on stereotype threat, in which the performance of African American students in a testing situation was cut in half by asking them to identify their race at the start of the test” (Moule 1). Performance levels significantly dropped as children were faced with the reality that their level of intelligence would be based on their race. When presented a question that judges one due to the color of their skin, one becomes unmotivated and realizes that a system made to educate is, perhaps unintentionally, being racist. White children have not dealt with problems such as these, being deemed superior in the education system since the segregation of whites and blacks began. The presence of a racial bias is

An example of experience forming prejudice could be seen in peoples feeling about Pitbulls. The Pitbull is not born aggressive and violent to people or other animals but turns this way when it get of abused, neglected or trained by people to be aggressive. But people put them in the savage beast category because a few abused, neglected or trained to be aggressive Pitbulls went haywire and harmed someone

1 Cynthia Silva Parker defines racism as “a system of oppression created to justify social, political, and economic hierarchy.” It is presented as one of the major problems to our society. Each person has their own understanding of racism and what they believe defines it. People develop an unconscious bias to racism based on surroundings and other social or environmental factors. Parker says this unconscious bias turns into a conscious bias and affects decision making based on the individual. One of the examples she gives is, “It can be the difference between a teacher sending a student to the principal’s office or not.” To change people from developing this bias each kid has be taught the same in every school but of course this is very hard

While progress has been made to close the gap of racial inequality in society, racial bias continues to be a prevailing issue. In a 2016 research study published in the Journal of Psychological Science, Todd, Thiem, and Neel (2016) tested whether exposure to the faces of black male children causes a heightened sense of threat in white observers. Prior research already supported that both old age and “babyfaced” qualities can reduce the threat related stigma towards black men. However, contrasting research has shown that black children are more subject to an adult standard and are more likely to be tried as adults than white children in similar cases. The study aimed to test competing hypotheses disputing whether or not young age was potent enough factor to reduce bias and association between black males and threatening words and objects (Todd et al, 2016).

To begin, socialization or having one’s upbringing (family, media, etc.) teach and perpetuate prejudice. According to social cognitive theory, through direct instruction, modeling, and other social influences on learning, prejudice is viewed as an attitude that is formed as other attitudes are formed. For instance, the media,

Sociologist Robert K. Merton identified 4 combinations of prejudice, a negative attitude based on faulty generalizations about members of specific racial, ethnic or other groups, and discrimination, actions or practices of dominant group members (or their representatives) that have a harmful effect on members of a subordinate group. His 4 combinations are unprejudiced nondiscriminators, unprejudiced discriminators, prejudiced nondiscriminators, and prejudiced discriminators. I believe that the prejudiced nondiscriminator is the most common type of group found in our society. Most people have some form of prejudice, known as hidden biases, even the ones that state that they treat everyone equally. These prejudices can be passed down from

In 1954, psychologist G.W. Allport claimed just that under the right circumstances, exposure to a group decreases negative sentiments towards them. Dr. Thomas Pettigrew with the University of California, Santa Cruz, enumerates these prerequisites: “The situation must allow equal group status within the situation, common goals, intergroup cooperation, and authority support” (1998). Nevertheless, contact alone is not always enough to understand a person as an individual as opposed to a member of a group. In the words of Pettigrew, “Your stereotypes about the other group