Social Classification Of Black People

Americans of African descent still have limited economic freedom, even after the end of the civil war on Monday. The hugest or in other words the most serious problem after the Civil War it was hard work. After the Civil War, Americans of African descent in this release, but we do not know where exactly to go, especially in the south. They traveled far, but some remained and hard work because they did not have anywhere to go and no one to see. Also, they were not able to get all of their land, and thus began the cycle of poverty known as sharecropping. War in South Africa to prevent Americans from exercising civil and political rights - is another example of a border post is passed Black Codes which were discriminatory

“Think about race in its universality. Where is your measurement device? There is no way to measure race. We sometimes do it by skin color, other people may do it by hair texture - other people may have the dividing lines different in terms of skin color. What is black in the United States is not what 's black in Brazil or what 's black in South Africa.”-Dr.Goodman, Race: The Power of an Illusion

Race, gender, and social class has several implications in the United States and how it shapes policy and perceptions of those who live in poverty. Current welfare systems are not perfect, and capitalistic policies do not work as intended to solve income inequalities. Given this, we will discuss social inequalities and capitalism, the welfare system, and propose two policies that solves welfare, and social and income inequalities.

Negroes discriminated against other Negroes; within the Black race, the darker Negroes are discriminated against. Individuals within the Negro community believe lighter skin Negroes are more trustworthy and darker Negroes are inferior; this practice furthered the idea of judging a man by his color.

Ethnicity is one of the three epiphenomena of race Omi and Winant use to describe their definition of race. Ethnicity defined by Oxford English dictionary as “Status in respect of membership of a group regarded as ultimately of common descent, or having a common national or cultural tradition; ethnic character.” Ethnicity could not be the same as race. Ethnicity groups you together with people you have nothing in common with. Saying that one is black does not mean anything. In Africa there are 1,500 to 2,000 languages along with 54 countries (). Africa has 11.7 million square miles and with european colonization, there are different cultures made. Since African diaspora which is “ the movement of a particular people to several places at once or over time” (Colins,2015) “black” men would not be the same all over the world. It is believed that over 200,000 Africans were delivered to European societies and an estimated 11

Abstract: African American people have a high percentage of obesity compared to other ethnic groups. Social determinants of obesity in African American people include low socioeconomic status, limited access to affordable and healthy food, dietary behavior and food culture, lack of nutrition knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, higher exposure of marketing of less nutritious food and limited access to safe places to physically active. This research was done to see how these social determinants affect the obesity rate in African American people. Different researches were reviewed. The effects of above mentioned social determinants were observed and some recommendations are given in order to minimize the health disparities in low income African

Throughout history and across the different cultures, people socially construct ideas of race. All races of people are not biologically different because there is no genes or gene clusters similar to all people of one race, but because people have similar visual traits humans have categorized people as being different. Due to these differences, societies have been known to show tendencies based on the socially constructed races and people develop personal views about the various races from past experiences. In large cities in the United States there are areas where the African American population is more dense, which shows that people draw imaginary boundaries due to race. An example of how the social construction of race is that in the United

What does it mean to be Black in America? This question can be answered by various African-Americans and receive multiple responses. There is no specific reasoning to define Blacks in America, but there are aspects. Genetics and an individual’s view on their own identity play a great role in understanding what it means to be Black in general. Though, culture can influence one’s identity, in the end, there is no such term as being ‘like’ or ‘somewhat’ a certain race.

1. Describe the difference between race and ethnicity. What roles do race and social class continue to play in the United States?

Race is not something that is an exact thing. It is a social construct. It is a reflection of who you are and what you perceive.

Although the color problem is sometimes incorporated as not an issue, it is something that stills is the talk of the town from time to time. The Categorizing of persons based on their skin complexion, is more or likely extremely rooted in the black perception. Many years ago dating back to slavery, the problem of someone’s skin color has been used for revenues of controlling and division.

“Among African Americans, skin tone is an important physical characteristic that creates divisions in the community and affects the quality of life. Like gender, a person’s skin tone is a visible physical trait that others immediately notice during social interactions and use to form judgments” The Light skin versus Dark skin issue that has been haunting the black community for centuries is deeply rooted from the times of slavery. Because of the influence of white supremacy, mixed race children received better treatment which resulted in the formation of a social stratification within the black community that impacted how they were treated by white people as well as the way they were treated within their own community.

Many Muslims who are of brown skin color assume that black Muslims will not have the same type of difficulty as Muslims who are brown due to the stereotype that terrorist have brownish skin color. Dr. Munir contributed by saying although black Muslims don’t necessary get categorized as terrorists, they struggle with racial profiling and racism as a whole.

Race is a political and loaded topic that can be easily misunderstood. For example, when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a range of responses from voters. To some he was “too black” and others said that he was “not black enough”. Even in these social groups there were disagreements. For some black Americans, he was not black enough since he did not descend from slavery in an American context.

There have been various alterations to the definition of “Black”. In the USA Frederickson (1987) Illustrated in 1705, the state of Virginia boldly declared any child, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild of a Negro, would be deemed as a Negro. Consequently, in 1866, Virginia stated