White Privilege And Male Privilege

Yet alongside those, there are conspicuous demonstrations of racism that would never happen in today's society. Lee illustrates many of these behaviors in her novel. Atticus, one of our main characters, is the white lawyer that decides to defend a black man (Tom Robinson) in court, despite

Race, gender, and class, while commonly thought of as separate, are deeply intertwined with one-another. In his book Iron Cages, Ronald Takaki explores and lays out both the ways in which these three connected the ways they are not and the underlying reasons as to why. Following will be the analysis of the three in pairs, so as to better break down the comparisons among the three in relation to one another, concluded with the intersection of all three. Beginning with race and gender, it goes without says that masculinity was emphasized when referring to peoples of color, and femininity was emphasized when referring to white people. This appears to have been used as a way to paint people of color as threats whilst maintaining the white person

If something is stolen and there is only one black person in the room, all heads indistinctly turn to him/her. He/she is guilty until proven innocent or at minimum until some decent white person comes forward and admits guilt or attempts to defend him/her. The affirming of our innocence from a white person seems to offer us some form of legitimacy. Doubts may remain, but the case can now move forward. Let's say there isn't a solution found in what one would consider to be a reasonable enough time, there is no doubt that he/she will be brought back up for reconsideration.

Like many other problems, Racism has existed throughout the history of mankind. The definition of Racism is being discriminant and disrespectful towards a racial group with the belief that your own race is superior. Racism has changed the world and how people view each other. This belief that ones race is superior has lead to create violence, stereotypes, health problems and hatred in the world. White Americans’ support for segregation sprang from a widespread belief in black inferiority and that blacks’ disadvantaged status tended to reinforce this sentiment (Harris and Leiberman).

As Cheryl Harris explains in “Whiteness as Property,” the law was formed with the rights of white people, and white men in particular, in mind. Not only does property law provide legal protection to the material and intellectual property of white people, it also upholds their exclusive access to whiteness itself as a form of property. Harris opens her article with a personal story about her grandmother, a Black woman who could pass as white in certain settings. This story illustrates the idea that Blackness is a language that can be read and a code that can be switched. Harris’s grandmother understood the language of Blackness well enough to switch codes at the office in order to pass as white, but it also reveals that passing as white does not always grant someone access to white privilege.

There are jurors who can make a decision who is right or not. The jurors are the reflection of the society who comes from them. Atticus states: “I am not idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system. That is no ideal to me; it is a living, working reality… Gentlemen, A court is only as sound as its jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”

James Baldwin is very explicit in his novel about the conditions of racism in the United States, and where he believes they stem from. Baldwin seems to think it is an internal, and individualized mindset that causes African Americans to fall into their ‘expected’ roles. He tells his nephew, “You can only be destroyed by believing you really are what the white world calls a nigger” (Baldwin 4). Through this quote, Baldwin is appealing to the readers pathos and making them think more deeply about how one finds their own self identity. Is much of modern racism influenced by others opinions on ourselves and on each other?

(Lee 161). From this quote, readers can better understand how people, even kids, were judged based on their skin colour, and how Dolphus and his family were outcasts in town. People are being adjudicated simply because of rude comments said about them, even though that person hasn’t done any harm to them. There was a case in town involving a black man, a white man, and a woman. The white people were treated with respect, but as soon as it was the Negro’s turn (Tom Robinson), he was being questioned rashly.

Reading and Reimagining Social Life In Allan Johnson’s Privilege, Power, and Difference, Patricia Hill Collins describes the Matrix of Domination as an intersectionality between all the isms, especially racism and sexism. Collins describes this cycle of domination saying “that each form of privilege is part of a much larger system of privilege” (Johnson, 52). Work for change needs to focus on the idea of privilege in all forms and the way in which it enables people to think in relation to inequality and power. The only way to understand the matrix, is by understanding its dimensions.

It is important to examine the issue that surrounds the discrimination and inequality faced by not just black people, but also people of colour because it involves the state’s obligation

Perhaps one way of defining and understanding the concept of white male privilege is to imagine that a white male walks through life with an invisible duffle bag full of unearned rights and privileges that a white male alone enjoys. These privileges are said to exist as these white males have something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they belong to, versus anything, in particular, they have either failed to do or have actually done. Because other groups do not walk through life with this invisible duffle bag full of unearned rights and privileges, Affirmative Action policies were initiated to provide those without an invisible duffle bag, a visible one; thus, allowing all to walk through life equally. In regards

Even though jurors are supposed to be non-biased, their feelings about a situation can alter their opinion. Bob Ewell was not the only person upset with Atticus for defending a black man as well. Many of the jurors were simply just racist towards African Americans. This is one of the sole reasons why there are flaws in the justice system. Many African Americans have been wrongfully accused of a crime they did not commit due to racist jurors.

Sociologist that focus on aspects of race agree that it is a slippery slope. It begins with defining race as a social construction. One of the first ways this begins is through the view that race is a myth. It is argued that if race is indeed a myth, that makes it a social construction. Our textbook defines social construction as, "an entity that exists because people behave as if it exists and whose existence is perpetuated as people and social institutions act in accordance with the widely agreed-upon formal rules or informal norms of behavior associated with that entity," (Conley A-11).

In Blumer’s article, “Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position,” he is looking specifically at how group position leads to racial prejudice, but this theory holds up when applied to other types of prejudice as well. In looking at conflict between groups, Blumer sees it as a conflict based in social positioning (1958). Blumer identifies “four basic types of feeling” present in the dominant group: “a feeling of superiority, a feeling that the subordinate race is intrinsically different and alien, a feeling of proprietary claim to certain areas of privilege and advantage, and a fear and suspicion that the subordinate race harbors

In connection with the current event article the group of white nationalist believe in white superiority. White superiority is racist. There is no “superior race”, just a social construct built by the white man himself. Frederick Douglas said “The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved” (Marable, Manning, Mullings