Teaching Our Own Racism Incorporating Whiteness Into Anti-Racist Practice Summary

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In society cultures have experienced racial discrimination because of their skin color, the way they dress, their language, or background. We have encountered these problems and have not been able to find a solution that will end racial discrimination. This racial discrimination goes towards the color people, Mexicans, and simply the ones that are of lower class. If we would to stop discriminating people, allow them to work, and unite with each other, we would be able to find a solution that can end racial discrimination.
Mexicans for example, are discriminated often because of their color, and because American’s assume that they are taking jobs away from them. American’s have caused a big problem to Mexicans by increasing the prices on their
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Color people have long been unable to work, or even be seen in a white area because American’s simply cannot stand seeing them near them. In the article “Teaching Our Own Racism Incorporating Personal Narratives of Whiteness Into Anti-Racist Practice” the author Stephen Brookfield proclaims how “we have encountered discrimination in society in many different cultures, but evidently whites haven’t been targeted at all” (Brookfield 2). Color people in partially have been ostracized by the whites, and aren’t able to get the same rights as white people. Additionally, we see that there is also a view in which people are learning to be anti-racist against people from a different culture. Although there is still racism in this world there is still time to change the way people view other people. One’s race has a different meaning to every individual. Moreover, being able to speak Spanish or looking a specific way because of one’s color, does not infer that you are directly of a Mexican accent or a specific race. For example, people from different race confuse the Puerto Ricans, because they assume that they are black. In Linda Martin Alcoff’s article, “Latino Oppression”, she includes that “…United States have affirmative action programs specifically targeted at Puerto Ricans and Mexicans, in an attempt to address the …show more content…
In the article “The relation between religion and racism: the role of post-critical beliefs” the author B. Duriez & D. Hutsebaut includes that “because of racism in religion people encountered many issues with other different types of religion” (Hutsebaut 2). Beliefs that are in everyone’s culture, however people discriminated other people because of their religion and what they have faith in in. Every religion is different and we should learn in each religion that we shouldn’t be racist against each other. What we learn in our own religion can have a big impact on us, but that shouldn’t affect others because they are of no interest in each other’s religion. In the article “Balm in Gilead: Racism, Religious Involvement, and Psychological Distress Among African-American Adults” the authors: Christopher G. Ellison, Marc A. Musick, and Andrea K. Henderson they exclaim “that there can be effects in religion because others get more support and the rest get less, so the people who are getting less support are being discriminated by others” (Ellison, Musick, and Henderson 3). For example, in the article it also shows how white people get more benefits then a colored religion would get. Others have more money and are able to get funding’s to teach a charity and have a leadership while others aren’t able to get the funding’s to teach. Racial discrimination can have a big impact on religion

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