Race And Ethnicity Analysis

It is a fact that by way of such the specific inborn human features, people are not able to pick and choose their races because of his or her own heritage. Race is an unchoosable innate characteristic of which can be obviously distinguished by origins of birth, skin colors or other physical attributes; and, it seems hardly to success the striking collision of changing racial classification among all kinds of races, such as from black to white. According to the article, Racial Formations, the authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant indicate the term, “Racial Formation,” is a denotation of race in society. Within the article, the authors discuss several theories that revolve racial formation; hence, the theories are circled around three basic factors

Symbolic Ethnicities “What do these ethnic identities mean to people and why do they cling to them rather than just abandoning the tie and calling themselves American?” Waters. America is known as the melting pot, although we are known to be a mixed nation, we tend to categorize ourselves in specific race groups. Moreover, when we categorize ourselves we tend to create hierarchy, which is stating which race or ethnicity has more power over the other. With this being noted, it develops a social structure of society, which is what people think is acceptable.

Racial stereotypes are stereotypes based on race and are used to describe the ‘typical’ member of a particular race (Andersen & Taylor, 2008:238). I asked the group whether or not they treat people outside of their races different from the way they treat people of their own race and also if they have noticed such behaviour on campus. Some of them responded by saying that their treatment towards other people depends on who they are and not what race they are. The Black female (19) and the Coloured male (20) implied that they do not know how to interact with White people specifically because they are “too different” from them and they do not share the same interests, therefore they avoid associating themselves with White people.

This is important in the process of making accusations about the relationships between existing groups. Anthropologists, are much more interested in ethnicity as a historically and politically situated set of identity practices, rather than as a state of natural or predictable resemblance between physicality, behaviors, and attitudes. Identification justifies the cultural differences not from the materialistic differences but how they affect the social aspects. People will highlight the differences when they become socially relevant even when the accusations are

Frederik Barth in his book “Ethnic groups and boundaries” 1969 set out the subtle and sinuous frontiers of ethnic boundaries, the interconnectedness of ethnic identities and the continuity and transformation of ethnic groups. Barth provides a comparative study on ethnicity through ethnographic case study method. Barth and his collaborators observed how the boundaries between two ethnic groups are maintained, even though their culture might be indistinguishable and even though individual and groups might switch from one side of boundaries to the other. He stressed on the need to study how group consciousness makes the members believe that there is something that unites them and set them apart from others. Barth sought to analyze that although ethnic categories incorporate “culture” but there is no simple one – to- one relationship between ethnic units and cultural similarities and differences.

20) once they dominated a huge part of the globe. White Europeans coined these terms as a way to show that non-whites simply cannot survive in this society and that non-whites needed them in order to survive. Nothing about how the white Europeans treated the non-whites was fair. While I know that slavery and racism were the societal norms centuries, even decades ago; I truly believe that my generation is of a different mindset. While I think some of the points Mills presents are relevant, I do think some of them are a bit extreme for today’s times.

Hence, the direction here is the opposite: Subgroups cultivate their pan-ethnic identities as a form of ethnic expression to highlight subgroup diversity and cultural legitimacy. For example, ethnic Chinese groups may not want to be placed in the Asian category and thus they emphasize their pan-Chinese culture to distinguish themselves from other groups such as Japanese or Koreans. In this sense, it fits Wimmer’s idea of shifting ethnic boundaries through contraction because the boundaries get narrower and people dis-identify with the category to which outsiders assign them (Wimmer 2008a, 1036; 2008b,

By confirming this negative relationship, the study at hand substantiates value similarity and work similarity, rather than the social category perspective. According to Stahl et al. (2010), “diversity impairs team performance because team members are attracted to individuals with similar attributes, which they categorize as the in-group”. Team members categorize dissimilar people into out-groups, which can lead to discrimination, and corrupt the effective functioning of teams (Stahl et al., 2010). The negative effect of diversity also suggests that team members in multicultural team in Vietnam do not know how to successfully deal with diversity in teams.

We tend to favor one gender over another, and place stereotypical predispositions related to behavior or performances. I equate many of these bias judgements to greed not necessarily an actual limitation. For example, I don’t believe that the founding fathers of the United States actually believe that blacks were inferior. It is my belief that they created this narrative out of necessity based on power and greed.

Hall argued that racism is the natural connection that one makes between how one looks, ‘the difference between hair, skin and bone” - W.E.B. Du Bois, and their intelligence. What this came down to is that he saw racists as individuals who believe that race and the characteristics linked to it are biologically in our genes and are thus not a result of our environment. This is however not what he believed. He tried to prove that “all attempts to show scientifically, that blacks are not as intelligent as whites, have failed” by examining the discourses surrounding race. What he found is that, by taking a discursive position and analysing the stories and metaphors that have been told over the years by a culture about what physical

Sociologist tries to show that race is not real and is made up, almost like it’s our imagination. That is social construction, they get you to think outside of the box and prove that we have made up perceptions. We perceive something as we see it, it’s how we grew up. An example of this would be skin color, which is race but, skin race is not always skin color. People that have darker skin normally come from warmer climates, leaving them with more pigment in their skin.

The purpose of the article by Wells and Olson (2001) was to investigate research on the other-race effect and its causes as well as propose possible reforms to the justice system to deal with problems caused by the other-race effect. This article is relevant to the fields of law and psychology because cross-racial identification happens often in the justice system and can result in wrongful conviction. The other-race effect is not an absolute, other facts determined by many factors such the eyewitness’ experience with face from a different race, how distinctive the facial features are, delay between encoding of the face and recognition, among others. However there are some concerns with the design of many of the experiments used to test the

Iman Albarakat, April 16th 2017, Memo #6: Difference & Inequality in Everyday Life We are taught that no two people are alike. But why is it that we are socialized to see a certain race or gender as the superior one? In society we see each other as white or other. We have been socialized to see white as the superior race, that if you aren’t white, you are lacking and should strive to achieve “whiteness”.

Peggy McKintosh makes a sort of parallel between the power of privilege that men posses over women and how white people have a privilege over colored people. The parallel between these two examples is that they both have a side that is more privileged than the other but they seem to not notice that they have that privilege. Men grow up in a society where they are taught not to show that they have more power and privilege over women and it is the same way with white people. White people are not taught that they are oppressors against people of color. They just grew up and were taught to not recognize their privilege of just being born white.

The term race refers to the notion of separate people into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of physical characteristics. Even though the biological race concept doesn 't refer to human variation, the race is a significant cultural category. In these days, humans most of the time insert a false notion of biological difference into the cultural category of race to make it seem more authentic and objective. Consider this example, people in many Latin American countries classify one another as Indian, mixed of Latin American and Indian, or Latino---of Spanish Origin. However, the biological connotation of these terms have random cultural criteria interpret these categories, like whether individuals wear shoes, sandals, or go