Posted: March 26th, 2020
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Racism and Discrimination
The questionable focus on the
notion of ‘black’ and ‘white’ is a matter that stems from the way the notion of
race has been adopted as a social norm. Over the years, the United States
has undergone a tumultuous experience associated with struggles between
‘whites’ and ‘blacks’. Nonetheless, the most interesting aspect regarding the
overdue processes of oppression and discrimination involves the significance
that has been attached to racism over the years. It is because of racism that
society has persistently engaged in the establishment of segregated contexts
and simultaneously, influenced the development of ‘movements’ and activisms
aimed at addressing inequalities perpetuated by members of a single race.
However, it is important to note that race is just a mere social construct that
has been derived from racism, which is another construct as well (Coates 7). Simply,
without racism, it would be possible to establish the absence of categories or
classes based on race. The effect that racism imposes on the segregation of
persons via race is akin to the manner that aspects such as gender are utilized
to enable the discrimination of women in the South African contexts (Hutson
83). Similar to the way race has been used in order to enable discrimination by
persons that hold power on basis of color, the notion of gender constitutes a
construct that has been utilized in order to perpetuate prejudice against women
especially by those that hold power, specifically men in institutions such as
the family and marriage (Hutson 84). Despite the fact that race is just a
social construct, there is considerable focus especially in respect to the
black matter because of the repercussions it has imposed on the respective
people for many years.
Works Cited
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
Hutson, Shaina. “Gender Oppression and Discrimination in South Africa.” ESSAI, vol. 5, no. 26, 2007, pp. 83-87.
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