RACE AND COMMUNITY

Race and Community

Race and Community

Introduction

Racism is a phenomenon that exists in almost every society and if I pick any one society and it will surely give the picture of other societies present. This paper has a bases on the personal experiences and the arguments are self related that the theorists have backed. In the last several decades, the American race problem has withdrawn from the forefront of the collective imagination, only to mask ever-widening social, political, and economic inequalities caused by the persistence of American racism. Despite the myth, American liberalism's triumph over racism, which aspires toward a “racially color-blind society” by denying varying racial and ethnic identities, racism—the assignment of people to an inferior category and the determination of their social, economic, civic, and human standing on that basis (Fields, 2001, p. 48)—remains an enduring and consequential mechanism of America's socio-legal organization. Because symbols of racial progress such as the presidency of Barrack Osama, the coexistence of whites and Blacks in classrooms and workplaces, and the visibility of “successful” Blacks now dominate Americans' popular conceptions of “race progress,” many social problems—the disproportionate incarceration of Black men and other men of color, the poverty and under education of nonwhite, and the mortality rates of people of color—resonate as the simple failure of those individuals to want to improve their circumstances. Because of the imagery of the Black president and the inculcated mantra of racial equality are the central narratives of race theory, American citizens of the post-civil rights generations are left impotent to civically engage with the social problems that contradict their visions of racial nirvana.

Discussion

The connections between race, neighborhood context, and attitudes toward the police have been an increasingly active site of criminological research over the last two decades. Within this literature, it has been common for researchers to find that a substantial gap exists in how different racial and ethnic groups perceive the police. Whereas it has been repeatedly demonstrated that the public, on the whole, tends to hold positive attitudes toward the police, it has also been consistently found that Whites are more likely to rate the police favorably as compared to minority groups. More specifically, minorities are more likely than Whites to believe that the police treat people differently because on their race and that the criminal justice system is unjust. The growing divides between whites and nonwhite in economics, social mobility, and political voice make the seemingly sempiternal nature of American racism and the material privileges of whiteness of importance to scholars of leadership and transformation political engagement. Because race has remained an obstacle to the at-large political participation of nonwhite in America, it seems only fitting that this handbook address that reality. After all, the problem of race and the consequences of racism are what continue to impede the abilities of policy makers, diplomatic representatives, and government administrations to address the concerns of all Americans (Appiah, 2009).

This paper will focus on three post-civil rights notions of ...