Racial Racism

The Jim Crow South was a carefully designed ecosystem of racial discrimination, maintained by prejudice within the legal and extra-legal facets of life. In Chapter Five of Trouble In The Mind by Leon F. Litwack, he deconstructs the racial discrimination that consumed the “Southern way of life”, essentially breaking it down into four major characteristics: disenfranchisement, segregation, manipulation of the judicial system, and violence. (218-219) Each characteristic targets a particular aspect of black life and when combined together, make for the immeasurable hardship that embodied black life during the late 1800s, through the early 20th century, and well into the 50’s, with clear

The Jim Crow Law was based on the idea of “Separate but Equal” which impacted the African American people and challenged the Supreme Court’s efforts to give true equality for all. The idea “Separate but Equal” arose after the abolishment of slavery and birth of the Fourteenth Amendment. This new Amendment gave every citizen equal rights no matter the race. However, because of the spread of white resistance, segregation was used to keep the two races separated physically, socially and culturally. But the Plessy v. Ferguson case caused ⅞ % to be the lowest amount of white in a person to be socially considered white. Segregation not only impacted the black, but also biracial people because of this percent standard. Separated facilities such as

To the disappearance of Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney, what was the reaction of LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover, white volunteers, and black volunteers?

I was watching the news, when the footage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster came on. The news reporters were showing a black man walking in flooded waters near a market with a bag full of food and labeled him a “thief”. Social media in the United States has portrayed people of different racial backgrounds differently and unequally in recent years. In the essays “Theories and Constructs of Race” and “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?” the authors discuss in both essays about issues with racial equality in our world today. Authors Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe discuss in the first essay racial schemes are created through prejudices and the telling and retelling of stories. While, authors Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado discuss in their essay about the issue of “colorblindness” in social media. Holtzman is a professor of communications and journalism at Webster University, while Sharpe is a professor at Webster as well. Similarly, Harris and Carbado are professors at UCLA’s School of Law and have addressed widely on race, gender, civil rights and constitutional issues. Both essays do a good job at explaining their ideas and supporting them with evidence of racial discrimination in our world today. The authors from both essays organize their ideas and summarize them, which helps understand the main idea of racism, discrimination and racial inequalities in today’s society.

The Jim Crow laws promoted racial segregation and made the lives of African Americans more difficult. In Remembering Jim Crow, it was described that these laws kept Whites and Blacks in “...separate schools, separate churches, separate graveyards, and separate public accommodations—all this in order to freeze the place of the Negro in society and guarantee his basic immobility” (Smith, Ellis, Aslanian 484). Signs were put up around cities and there were specific places for Whites that were usually nice and in great condition however, for the Blacks there places designated for them were typically not as nice and in poor condition. There was so much segregation even in places that all are supposed to be equal like churches and graveyards were separate. Another example is in

Do you believe that everyone in this world has equal rights? Well if you think that everyone in this world has the same rights your wrong. Racism has been going on for years and still to this day racism is a big part in today’s society and will forever be a part of history. Throughout the years not much has changed from having African American slaves to having immigrants.

The solutions to the ongoing issue of racism is that if people were not ignorant of other cultures, and races , people could actually live in a world together in harmony, without racism. Until people can learn to respect on anther and not condemn them for their appearance or culture, a world of racism cannot die . The reason being Racism stems from ignorance that is present in the mind of people. racism is not something that is inherited , it is taught. the ignorance that was created many years ago have traveled from generation to generation, people have honestly just become ore accepting to it. if we can teach future generations to refrain from the ignorance and racist tendencies of older generations, one day we can reduce racism . Not

Do Americans feel like there is still racial discrimination in today's everyday life? Racial discrimination is treating someone differently because of the color of his or her skin. Racial discrimination has been around for a long time. There are laws that are supposed to protect non whites from being racially discriminated against but these laws are not applied to everyone equally. There are a lot of different types of discrimination such as gender and age but the main type is racial. Racial discrimination still exist in America based on discrimination at work, police brutality, and arrest rates.

Racism is something something we 've all witnessed. Many people fail to believe that race isn’t a biological category, but an artificial classification of people with no scientifically variable facts. In other words, the distinction we make between races has nothing to do with genetic characteristics. Race was created socially, primarily by how people perceive ideas and faces we are not quite used to. The definition of race all depends on where and when the word is being used. In U.S. history, the meaning of the label “white” has changed over time, eventually adding groups like the Italians, Irish and Jews. Other groups, mainly African, Latino, American Indian, Pacific Islander, and Asian descendants, have found the path for worldwide

their own interests (Vorster, 2002). It is this fear that ignites feelings of prejudice, an emotional rather than rational

1. What was my overall reaction to the assigned reading? I really enjoyed this reading in Chapter 9. I related this reading to the work I do in my field practicum as it relates to the cognitive and moral development of human beings and human behaviors. As you already know, I work for Stella Maris, a drug and alcohol treatment facility. We talk a lot about cognitive development and the concerns we have with our clients as it relates to their disease of addiction. We need to know what changes in intellectual abilities, mental activities, and behaviors through which knowledge of the world is attained. This requires an understanding of us as counselors, to know what the variety of factors are including, biological, social, environmental,

Liang, Christopher T H, and Ruth E Fassinger. “The Role of Collective Self-Esteem for Asian Americans Experiencing Racism-Related Stress: A Test of Moderator and Mediator Hypotheses.” Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology 14.1 (2008): 19–28. Web.

Though slavery has been around for decades, racism actually began with the enslavement of Africans during the sixteenth century. Slave trade was one of the main promoters of racism during that time. Prior, however, skin color did not define racial attitudes. This extending type of trade gave birth to the idea of races being regarded by their skin color. In To Kill a Mockingbird, racism is noticeable in both the text and globally.

Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, and Hank Greenberg all faced some sort of racism during their lives and their professional careers. Racism was found in every sport between the 1930s and the 1950s. Some sports hid the racism better than the others did. The role of racism and ethnicity in American sport did not change significantly between the 1930s and the 1950s.

From the colonial era, the English men from Britain arrived East America , they brought advanced technology, at the same time, they also brought about racism. From the 20th century, the black in America did not accept racial discrimination from the white in their social lives and they started to revolt the policies of the white. In order to strength disparity between the white and the black, racial politics still remain in the society of America. Slavery, segregation, the American Indian Wars, Native American Reservations are all the results of racial politics. Official racial discrimination was mostly banned in the mid-20th century, and it is regarded as unacceptable repugnant .(Henry, 2002) Racial stratification continues to occur in employment, housing, education, lending, and government.