White Cars Hypothesis

Summary: The primary goal of this article is to explain the whole phenomenon of Black Americans disliking same-race peers for “acting White”. There has been little to no research of the “acting White” hypothesis and this study is hoping to fill the gap by providing the psychological framework for the types of traits and behaviors that Black young adults would likely view as such. The experiment used 2 target races and 2-target interest to further test this acting white hypothesis which ended up to be consistent with Saunders predictions.

According to About.com Education, Sociological Imagination is defined as, “the concept of being able to ‘think ourselves away’ from the familiar routines of our daily lives in order to look at them anew”. In my opinion, sociological imagination offers a new perspective into a simple occurrence. This concept breaks down the broad over-generalization of everyday tasks and objects and give it a multi-dimensional purpose that either benefits or harms society.

look around, and once again I'm in the minority'" (as quoted in Mangan, 2015). Students who attend HBCUs do so with the impression that they will be surrounded by a grand majority of black students, professors, culture and history. Most HBCU students do not enter their first day of college expecting to see a significant amount of racial diversity on campus, however, due to shifts in HBCUs, a significant amount of racial diversity is exactly what they encounter. This causes HBCUs to lose their identity of being historically black. For example, a student at Delaware State University states "I don't really think of Del State as a historically black college, even though it is, because it's so diverse" (as quoted in Madeline, 2015). This is a great

Is whiteness only a matter of skin pigmentation? Nyack (2007) questions what would happen if we were to see whiteness as more of an organizing principle. Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS), she explains, provides a radically different way to think about race and challenge whiteness as the universal norm. If, additionally, we think of whiteness as a social construct that includes white culture, ideology, racialization, experiences and emotions, we can understand that CWS “focuses on problematizing the normality of hegemonic whiteness which has allowed whites to deflect, ignore or dismiss their role, racialization and privilege in race dynamics”

A central tenet of whiteness studies is a reading of history and its effects on the present, inspired by postmodernism and historicism, in which the very concept of racial superiority is said to have been socially constructed in order to justify discrimination against non-whites. Since the 19th century, some writers have argued that the phenotypical characteristics associated with specific races are without biological significance, and that race is therefore not a valid biological concept.[1] Many scientists have demonstrated that racial theories are based upon an arbitrary clustering of phenotypical categories and customs, and can overlook the problem of gradations between categories.[2] Thomas K. Nakayama and Robert L. Krizek write about

The second experiment differed in that it had a sample size of 150 students, they were divided into groups of 50. Again the groups were shown footage of car accidents however in this experiment one group of 50 were asked how fast the cars were

In Toni Morrison’s novels, The Bluest Eye and God Help the Child, the main characters, Pecola and Bride, both display elements and the fetishization of whiteness within the black community. Pecola and Bride’s propensity to embrace whiteness and mask their blackness speaks to the pervasive nature of white culture over that of others. The use of masks, disguises, and dreams of being more white to attain society’s view of what is beautiful is a major theme that two texts share and the primary characters strive to achieve, while one character questions the infatuation with whiteness and its pervasive dominance over all other cultures within the United States. The fetishization of whiteness by those in minority communities within the U.S. damages minority’s in many ways, from many sides, and has traditionally forced the black community into compliance with white standards at their own expense.

Crash Course: An Interpretive Look into the film “Crash” and its Relation to Society “It’s the sense of touch…we miss… so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something”-Paul Haggis. In a society run by division and hate, we wish to be moved by each other, to feel our common human presence, our search for this sort of human connection persists despite many peripheral issues which divide us (reelrundown.com). In accordance, in the renowned, socially explorative film, “Crash”, the story delves deep into the lives of various individuals from different socio-economic classes, who share a life changing experience amidst their conflicting prejudices and belief systems. Moreover, the story follows a white district attorney and

This might make the results more bias because the children could be from well of families or from poorer families there is no mix of the social ethnics. The region where it was conducted could also have an effect on the experiment as it might have been prone to more violent behaviours than other regional areas. This is difficult to link this experiment it to a larger diverse population because it was from only one place. Race of the children was not specified which is important because some racial backgrounds will be stricter than others and their religion might interfere with the proceedings of the experiment and their ethnic background.

The topic of our project is comparing the commute times from different cities where students live. The reason we choose this topic because we are interested in knowing the average time people need to get to campus from cities where they live. We also think there are many things that have a big influence on the commute time. Our hypothesis is more than 50% Highline students commute from Federal Way and more 25% Highline students commute from Kent by driving and compare the commute time of Highline students commute from Federal Way versus students commute from other cities to see if the average commute time from other cities is shorter than from Federal Way. If our study is true, we can assume that more than half of Highline students commute from Federal Way and a quarter of students commute from Kent. We also want to compare the commute time of students commute from Federal Way versus other cities. However,the result maybe show less than 50% of Highline students travel from Federal Way and less than 25% of Highline students travel

The Beginning - When I was sixteen years I did not expect a car from my parents. Both my parents never got a car from their parents. I expected to have me drive the minivan until Mom didn’t want it anymore and it’d become mine. And it was mine, for a while. I hated every minute of it. I worked two jobs during that year of high school to get my own car; one as a lifeguard and the other with a landscaping company. I saved my money until had a couple thousand dollars in my bank account. I started looking online for a set of wheels that didn’t have giant sliding doors on the side.

Students were randomly assigned to groups that had a topic of all whites, with race, or majority of race. A couple of things that changes from study one was the topic, two black confederates. The reason for this is to better understand how having people of multiple races can impact the thought process. Another thing that was changed is the topics in order to reduce the possibility of lack of diversity when it comes to groups that involve someone of that race. Another change that was added to the procedures was that right after learning about the topic, the participants were asked to write a personal statement about what you believe when it comes to said topic. The results once again indicated that white college students benefited when being in a group that involved someone of a different race. Overall both studies had similar traits to the one that I created. As a whole I was not surprised that the results indicated races improved thinking because that’s what I thought would happen in the first

Overall there were mainly girls in each experiment (experiment one: 47% and experiment two: 48%). This is a limitation because it does not give each gender an accurate sample pool. The results of the experiment would be mainly representing female children. Also, the sample sizes varied from experiment one (fifty children) to experiment two (twenty-three children). This causes the results not to be representative of the general population.

This particular study used a sample from Los Angeles to collect data. Because the sample was taken only from Los

The following report is on the different hypotheses developed on the topic of the Origin of Life. It will include six of the created hypotheses: Primordial Soup, Iron-Sulfur, Deep Sea Vent, RNA World, Community Clay, and Panspermia. It will explain who came up with each hypothesis, when it was created, their claim, evidence supporting their claim, identification of testing-if any-of the hypothesis, and reasoning for making their hypothesis. All sources used came from the worldwide web. What may be interesting is that all hypotheses differ with how they believe life started and the evidence supporting it. But some are closely connected to each other In conclusion, most, or even all, of these hypotheses may be incorrect on how the world came to be. Having no witnesses present during the beginning of time, no one is really sure of the actual circumstances of prehistoric Earth. However, all claims are logical and are convincing hypotheses for the origin of biomolecules.