RACE AND RACISM

ANTH 200 Wk 3 Assignment Part 2 - Race and Racism in the US



Race and Racism in the US

Introduction

This discussion will highlight races in the US and elaborate how they are defined. This will be followed by an explanation of the manner in which Gill and Brace can be expected to explain the existence of individuals who do not fit neatly into American racial categories. This will be supported with examples. The discussion will also give special consideration to the connection between racism and the concept of race; as well as the perspective which considers racial discrimination to be an innate human tendency or learned cultural behavior.

Discussion

Racism understood as the superiority of one race against the other American has been abandoned, it is something that is not done. Barack Obama won the presidential election for the second time, the last generation, among which some tolerate racism, almost died and who lives here a long time, knows that relationships between people different visage there are more relaxed and open than anywhere else. That does not mean that racism has disappeared. It became one of the pillars of the ideology of the American Left, that the Democratic Party. The term race has a long history, racism, however, dates only from the beginning of the twentieth century and the ending -ism reflects the view of historians and others who have written about this phenomenon, it is a dubious set of beliefs, and not the undeniable biological experience.

Racism implies physical and mental inequality of human races and racial differences decisive influence on the history and culture of mankind (Endicott & Welsch, 2009). All racial theories are based on the idea that humanity is originally divided into higher and lower races. Higher races are the creative, are carriers of civilization and progress, and ...