Essay On Whiteness In America

America has a long history of racial differences of the dominant class, which were the white people. White privilege was huge and if you were not white, you did not have access or authority to a lot of things. For example, equal pay, jobs, housing, medical care and more. We all have this idea that in America everyone is treated the same and equality can be reached if you come over and live the American dream. He in America you are different and unique and have equal rights. Yet, that is not the case at all and some have learned this the hard way. African Americans and other minorities have been racially profiled for a long time just because they are not white. In most cases white American’s experience less discrimination, sexual prejudice and less on our government laws. White, heterosexual men dominate the positions of power and women are still fighting for equality in this country. In America on Film, Benshoff states, “In everyday conversation, less privileged groups are frequently referred to as minority groups” (Benshoff, pg. 7). He goes off to state that it may seem that minorities may seem to sound smaller than the dominant group, but in fact there are more. There are more women in the United States than there are men, yet men hold most of the social power. In some cases, there are some states …show more content…
Media has made it clear that only white male characters ended up being the hero in the end and everyone else was not important. Non-white characters may have been put in the movie to show to the audience that they do not want to be raciest, but they always ended up dying in the movie anyways. Being white was your ticket of reaching goals easier than minorities. Yet, minorities outnumber whites in some states, we still see more whites holding positions of power. Our day in age, we can hope to see more minorities reaching that glass ceiling and breaking