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    recently, deep racial disparities have been uncovered as a result of race related fights at the school which led into school shooting threats. Valley asked an Iowa State team to conduct a study to help empiricize the racism, and the findings support that individual and institutionalized racism are prominent, causing different high school experiences for students of color (District Action Plan). The data results of the Iowa State equity report speak for themselves, regardless…

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    Institutional racism and affirmative action One can not deny the existence of oppression based on race. While the pseudo-scientific concept of race is at best a myth and, at worst, a convenient lie, but social oppression based on what is generally called the race is as real as the sunrise . If you do not believe in the existence of such oppression, then it is better that you stop right now to read this article because the existence of racism is one of the basic assumptions of this text. Racism…

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    different from when race first began to appear in societies. There have been many forms of racism, ranging from the enslavement of Africans to the eradication of the Jewish by Hitler, displaying its development over time. Even though times have changed, and so have societies, racism has continually been existent and changes with the times while remaining a pressing problem. In a book written by Ali Rattansi, called Racism: A Very Short Introduction, the author explores how race originally…

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    privilege because they are taught not to notice it. In parallel, men and women’s rights differ, men will often admit women are at a disadvantage but never admit that they are at an advantage. She argues that even though white people are taught about racism, they are never taught of white privilege. White privilege is an “invisible backpack” of advantages whites have. White people don’t feel fear of going out alone, moving, or judgement, and they can be sure that when good or bad things happen to…

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    Primordialism Essay

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    1. The three schools of thought Philip Q. Yang mentions in his book are Primordialism, constructionism, and instrumentalism. Primordialism is the belief an ethnic identity or affiliation is fixed and biologically defined. For instance, some people have the false belief African Americans are inferior to White Americans, or different races having biological advantages in certain sports. This is a false school of thought many people still choose to believe in. Genetic markers do not define race,…

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    Race Relations Sociology

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    Lastly, race relations continue to reflect the incredibly important social implications of racism in current events. Examples such as the brutality faced by young Black men by the cops demonstrates the assumption that African-Americans are brutish and violent, characteristics given to them by scientists during the slave trade. One example of on going racism that goes unnoticed is the high rate of violence against women of color, specifically sexual violence. As mentioned before, the sexual…

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    Martin Luther King, Jr. is correct in his statement. Ignorance and stupidity have led to the downfall of many societies. It is from scientific racism and social Darwinism that these ideas have risen, where people’s decisions and views were influenced by pseudo-scientific ideas of there being a superior and inferior race. These false allegations were followed by suffering and oppression. It is this oppression that urged change within society. Change was initiated by many passive protests. In…

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    African Americans were not always viewed with equal opportunities that they might be able to receive today. Historically, they have experienced a myriad of multicultural and multiethnic challenges, making it difficult to pursue psychology as a traditional practice. For several years, African American psychologists had limited job opportunities and other psychologist often held broad assumptions about African American’s intellectual “deficits". This oppression and dehumanization of African…

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    incarceration, “Jim Crow” laws, and racial terrorism have affected how people perceive race and racism. Race was conceived the way it was in the beginning of the early modern period because people, especially white, saw different cultures and races obscure and it affected the development of racism today because people learned to develop racial profiling without actually investigating for the truth. Racism seemed to develop as early as the fifteenth century when Christopher Columbus encounter…

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    Racist Ideology

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    Racism is a product of the complex interaction in a given society of a race-based worldview with prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g., apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. The ideology underlying racist practices often includes the idea that humans can be subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and…

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