Race and Racism Fall16 Gr.544
About this class
This course will introduce students to the concepts of “race” and racism from the perspective of biological and cultural anthropology. The first part of the course focuses on the distribution of human biological variation and compares this variation to contemporary ideas about “race”. The second part traces the historical development of the concept of “race” and the role that slavery, colonialism, science and the media have played in the dissemination of this concept. Students will also be introduced to the concept of white privilege. The third part of the course will explore the present-day reality of racism through case studies from various countries, with a focus on Canada and the United States. Special attention will also be paid to the effects of racism on children and adolescents.
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Dr. Kaldor's Intro to Soc
In this class, students are developing their sociological imagination and exploring how social scientists develop...
Ycheng
What first drew me to this post was the tittle " Empowerment of Black Lives Matter: Race, Crime and Employment”, because the BLM movement has been really impacting the US right now. By talking about it more and more we incite people to think and talk about it which, in my opinion will help bring light of the problem that we currently have. After I read the article I wasn’t shock of what I read, but I was still very disappointed. In my anthropology class “The Myth of Race and The Reality of Racism” and in my “African American Literature” English class, I’ve learn plenty about the injustice that racism bring to people of colour. I am astonished when someone believe racism doesn’t exist, there’s people that are discriminated because they have a different skin tone, just because you don’t get affected by it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Some people might say, “we all have equal opportunities” but this article proves that we might have equal opportunity but we don’t have the same obstacle that make us achieve these opportunities. As I remember in my anthropology class, we’ve talk about racial profiling and we’ve watch the 13th, where it talked about mass incarceration and how the population of the prison has a particular “Race” that are majority. This shows, a certain race is treated less favorable because of racial profiling by police force.
Chama ilali
What drew me to this post is the subject which is drugs being legalized or not. This post made me think about this issue and how important is to figure out why this drug is not legal everywhere even taught scientist found that it is really beneficial especially for certain sickness. I did not realize that marijuana was legal in Colorado and it is interesting to see that there is a conflict between the decision of that state and the whole country and it is true that at some point it can cause a serious shift. I was not surprised by the fact that legalizing the drugs have a good impact on the economy because before, the government could not have a marge of benefit because it was illegal but now they can because they have the control on it. In every ways, I think that this article is relevant and I totally agree with it. I think that there is not point to disagree with this law. If your do not want to do drugs, you have the right not to, but it should be legalized in all the states because it can help a lot of people. Finally, it can link this concept of drugs not being legalized to racism because a lot of people connect illegal behaviour to race and black people are often the target of it.
AmandaMcc
The title of your post caught my attention right away, "Way of decreasing the incidence of child abuse and neglect". I find that this is a topic that not many people want to talk about due to the nature of this. This is one of the first posts that I have seen regarding child abuse and neglect, so congratulation to you for choosing this topic. Personally, I find that it is important to find ways to stop child abuse and neglect. There are so many children out there that are being subjected to different types of abuse and suffering from neglect, all from a young age. I agree that there needs to be a strong relationship between a child and their parent, I learn this in a childhood psychology class last year. I was surprised when you wrote that the relationship depends heavily on the social support, that was something that I just never thought about before. I wished that you had described the four measures of service availability a little more because it is something interesting and is most likely worth knowing. I liked how you linked this article to a real life experience. The story was nice and I find that it related to your topic about how connecting to the neighborhood and finding out the services will help out the family. Something that stood out to me was that the family was from Burundi. You mentioned how the children were mistreated when they would visit others in the community and that the parents worried about their safety. This part stood out to me and made me think about a TedTalk that I saw in my Race and Racism class. In the TedTalk, the speaker's parents always worried for their safety because he was an African-American and that people will always treat them differently than other people. It made me sad that some people will treat others so horribly because they are not from the community. Anyway, your post got me very curious and I will go read this article.
Brittany
What drew me to the blog about the article was the title. I found it interesting because binge drinking is something that people in my age group do, so to have a study done on testing it, seems quite intriguing. I completely agreed with the article as it says that people around the age of eighteen to twenty-two years old usually binge drink, no no one ever suspects anything other than that teenagers drink. I believe that the blog had some good key points about the article and helped explain the study that was provided in the article. I personally think that this topic relates to implicit and explicit racism and the stereotypes faced with that. In class we discussed the topic of implicit racism which means that a person does not necessarily know that they are being racist. Just like in the text, many adults just assume that teenagers binge drink because they are teenagers. They don’t necessarily take into account that other factors may come into play such as: peer behaviour. Explicit racism is when people are flat out racist and don’t care what other people think or say. For example: in the blog about the summary, the author mentioned that teenagers around the age of eighteen to twenty-two years old who are in school binge drink the same amount as others who aren’t in school full time. A lot of adults flat out blame that if they aren’t in school, they have more time to drink and the study in the article proved that to be wrong; which I found extremely fascinating.
NickG
What drew me to this post is the word “Escalating” in the title. As my initial thoughts were, were not creating laws against minorities, and were diffidently not going back to slavery. Then I wondered if were actually escalating, probably not. Racism still exists and it's still a problem, but saying that cops are targeting minorities “for no apparent reason” is not a claim that shouldn't be made. Apart from that, I enjoy the use of stats in this post as it shows inequality. This post made me; it made me think about systematic racism and how it takes part in the law enforcement department. As we all know that race is a social construct that was created in the United States during the 17th century. This post has “how bad it actually is” in the text, yet never gives examples and cases on how bad it is. Of course these words alludes to individual cases of racist cops, which the media feeds on. This post shows that cops have a greater chance of using “coercive authority” which sounds vague. As the definition of “Coercive authority (also referred to as penalty authority): refers to motivating staff by negative reinforcement such as fear of losing a bonus,” wiki. A cop’s job is to give penalty when you break the law, and so Cops are more likely to do their job? In conclusion the words such as “escalating”, “how bad it actually is”, and “coercive authority” makes this post sound like law enforcements are on a minority rampage.
Diego
I was very intrigued by your post on the current gender wage gap situation. You seem to follow the very popular view that women are somehow paid less then men for the same work. I decided to write this comment in the hope that my point of view might change your perspective on the issue. While my class ''The Myth of Race and the Reality of Racism'' mainly focuses on racism, male privilege and sexism are often mentioned. To be honest I don't believe that women are actually paid less than men for the same work. The gender wage gap, while technically true, is biased and ignores a lot of important factors. The most important one being the number of hours worked. It is clearly proven that men work more hours on average than women. This easily explains why the annual average income of a men is higher. When you say that women are undervalued in the workplace, you're not stating a fact, you're simply making an assumption based on a wide and unacurate statistic. The assumption that because there is inequality in wages it automatically means that there is discrimination. It is a fallacy. There is no evidence that proves that women in 2016 are paid less then men for the same job with the same education with the same number of hours worked. You state the example of nurses, which are usually paid less than doctors. You state that nurses are paid less than doctors because most of them are females. It is an assumption that cannot be proven. What can be proven is that doctors receive more education than nurses, which can easily explain their higher salary. But to put facts aside I would like to give my point of view to finish. In North America, there is what we call the equality of opportunities. No matter our gender, we all have the same opportunities. I believe the only reason why men earn more money in general than women is because men and women simply make different choices and want different things from life. Men, from my point of view, tend to be more attracted to work life while women are usually more attracted to family life. This could possibly explain the fact that men work more hours than women. Gender discrimination is an assumption, I believe it's simply because men and women are different.
http://nurseslabs.com/doctors-vs-nurses-differences/
http://www.canadianwomen.org/facts-about-the-gender-wage-gap-in-canada
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karinagness/2016/06/30/new-report-men-work-l...
PaulRaphael
Very interesting topic! What drew me to your post was your title “Not all battle wounds are physical,” not only because I am interested in that subject, but also because I personally know somebody who is affected by PTSD. I am also always interested in reading more articles about it and your post convinced me to read this article. I found it very interesting to learn that deployments are much more frequent and longer in the Middle-East than in the Vietnam War, and although it can be argued that Vietnam and WWII were much bloodier wars, the difference in deployment length could definitely make the current wars harsher on veterans. Another point I found astonishing is how the advancement in medical technologies has had inverse effects on wounded soldiers, since often times battle wounds are debilitating. When you said that veterans more likely to experience poor functioning, lower living conditions, satisfaction, and a lesser quality life, it reminded of the concept of discrimination discussed in me class because of how the Government and even some of the population ignore the problems faced by a specific group because it is more convenient for them to do so. What I find even more troubling is that these problems come from the very Government that put these soldiers out there.
elodiegerard
This post made me realize how society in general is not aware or concerned about the problems that minorities face every day and how many think that segregation is not a problem anymore. I did not realize that black people were still facing discrimination when it comes to buy a house which is very surprising to hear. Moreover, it is outrageous to see that we still live in a world where people get discriminated due to their skin colour. There is a reason why people from different “races” are bound to live in poorer neighborhoods and it is because they do not have the same opportunities as others. Many face discriminations when it comes to find a job therefore, they end up having low paying jobs.
What you said about racial segregation made me think of the concept of white privileges, where people are often not aware of them because nobody talks about them. One way to stop white privileges is by talking about it and make people aware that many are not as lucky like for example when it comes to buy their dream house. By making white people realize their privileges and by teaching to young white children that skin colour does not define someone could significantly decrease racial segregation.
elodiegerard
This post made me realize how society in general is not aware or concerned about the problems that minorities face every day and how many think that segregation is not a problem anymore. I did not realize that black people were still facing discrimination when it comes to buy a house which is very surprising to hear. Moreover, it is outrageous to see that we still live in a world where people get discriminated due to their skin colour. There is a reason why people from different “races” are bound to live in poorer neighborhoods and it is because they do not have the same opportunities as others. Many face discriminations when it comes to find a job therefore, they end up having low paying jobs.
What you said about racial segregation made me think of the concept of white privileges, where people are often not aware of them because nobody talks about them. One way to stop white privileges is by talking about it and make people aware that many are not as lucky like for example when it comes to buy their dream house. By making white people realize their privileges and by teaching to young white children that skin colour does not define someone could significantly decrease racial segregation.
Anthony Amyot
When I first saw the title I automatically knew the article was going to address the issue of sexual preference (discrimination among partners). I think the issue is pretty interesting, and definitely something we should discuss. Actually, the post made me think about an issue that I had not considered before which is that “discrimination among partners” is more a question of sexual racism than simply a personal preference. To be honest, I had always seen this issue as only a matter of personal preference, and the article really made me look at it from a different angle. In fact, I found really interesting to learn that according to the study made in Australia (Callander, D., Newman, C.E. & Holt, 2015), almost every factors associated with men’s racist attitudes were related to their attitudes toward sexual racism. I think it shows very well how racism is still a part of our society, but simply in a more subtle way. In fact, when you said that those “preferences" are just like sexual racism, it made me think of the concept of “new racism” which is also known as “modern racism”. The new racism is a more subtle racism which is implicit, and often found in text messages, talks, or job interviews for example. In this case, it fits very well with the issue since sexual racism is really implicit. I think a lot of people also think that it is simply a question of preference since a lot of guys will talk about it very openly. After all, the way this post was clearly presenting the issue made me want to learn more, and read the original post.