In conclusion REI is the leader that other business look up to or follow as a CSR role model. Incorporating social stewardship into the coop culture, REI provides leadership, volunteering and monetary means to drive responsibility into the ecofriendly communities. REI is involved with youth, adults and other areas that align with the outdoors and reducing greenhouse gases. This in turn helps drive a stronger values within REI consumers that ultimately keeps valued customers even though some of the prices are higher than the competition.…
First, the model minority stereotype assumes them to be one homogenous ethnic…
A twenty year old college student, Allison*, whom describers herself as a “Black, but not really Black” woman, met with me to discuss what she is experiencing in today’s society (name has been changed). She brought up the recent kneeling of athletes during the national anthem, specifically during the NFL games. “It’s really frustrating that so many people just don’t get what it’s all about,” she began. “It’s not about the flag, the anthem or the troops. I just wish people could see the bigger picture of this entire thing.”…
Analytical tool used to look at race as a socially constructed identity, where the content and importance of racial categories is determined by social, economic, and political forces…
The racial formation theory was developed by Michael Omi and Howard Winant, thus publishing the book “Racial Formation”. Omi and Winant describe racial formation as “the socio historical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed”. They argue this theory in two steps; the first being the projects and secondly the evolution of hegemony. In the reading, it points out the fact that race and politics go hand and hand, they suggest revoking any piece of legislation and undo any court decision that involves or awards treatment based on race. In order for this to happen, one must understand the meaning of race.…
Summarise two theories of identity and compare their usefulness for explaining the real--world issues discussed in chapter 1, ‘Identities and diversities’.…
Compare and contrast the RTI model and the traditional method of identifying and serving struggling students.…
Janet Helms developed the greatest researched white racial identity model to date (Sue & Sue, 2016). The Helm’s White Racial Identity Development Model is comprised of six detailed racial identity statuses that are divided evenly into two phases which require the individual to discard racism and define a nonracist white identity (Sue & Sue, 2016). The first phase in the Helms model commences with the contact status. Individuals in this status are blind to racism or incognizant of its existence, feel that everyone has the same ability to succeed in life, do not comprehend discrimination or prejudice, have few experiences with people unlike themselves, and may report that they do not see color (Sue & Sue, 2016). Disintegration is the second…
The racial formation identity comes to terms with both our racial and ethnic identity as a crucial part of crafting the self. These ideas of racial privilege can provoke feelings of shame and guilt. “Politically speaking, neoconservative racial projects deny the significance of race, which produces colorblind racial…
Racial Identity Development is the steps minority or majority groups go through to gain understanding of their racial identity. Many people don’t go through all these stages in their life and it requires a lot of inner growth to get there. After watching Malcom X, a civil rights leader, I saw how Malcom went through each of the stages of black/ minority racial identity development; some with difficulty and others with not as much trouble.…
Although many view the model minority as a beneficial stereotype it is both detrimental to a plethora of people within the ethnicity but also outside of that ethnicity and race. Historically, different governmental, groups have tried to divide and conquer minoritized groups. There has been a deep fear that minorities would come together and create change. This created a push to divide minoritized groups based on their culture, skin tone, and political agency.…
The Complexity of Identity, and Identities and Social Locations discussed the two types of factors affecting people’s identities’ which are, colonization and immigration. Kirk and Okazawa-Rey conversed about the four types of structural inequality. The first is using the dominant group’s characteristics, features and values as the neutral standard. Second, using terms that separate the subordinate group from the dominant group. The third type of structural inequality is stereotyping; and lastly, two types of appropriation, exoticizing and…
Atkinson, Morten, and Sue (1979, 1989, 1998; Sue & Sue, 2008) proposed a five-stage Minority Identity Development Model (MID) in an attempt to pull out common features that cut across various groups. The Racial/Cultural Identity Model is comprised of five stages; the Conformity Stage, the Dissonance and Appreciating Stage, the Resistance and Immersions Stage, the Introspection Stage, and the Integrative Awareness Stage. Within each, stage Atkinson et al., (1998; Sue & Sue, 2008) highlight the client’s attitudes for self, others of the same minority group, others of a different minority group and attitudes towards the dominate group.…
References: Schaefer, R. T. (2012). Racial and Ethnic Group (13th Ed.). Retrieved from The University of Phoenix eBook Collection Database ETH/125.…
As we have known about the stereotype terms, it is important to understand the term of identity. Oftentimes, stereotype of particular group are formed through group’s identity. Ting-Toomey and Chung (2005, p.86) define the term of identity as “the reflective self-conception or self-image that we each derive from family, gender, cultural, ethnic, and individual socialization processes.” The term of identity is referred as people’s reflective views of themselves and of other perceptions of their self-image. It is supported by Jenkins (2014) that “identity is the human capacity—rooted in language—to know who's who” (p. 6). Significantly, Gee (2008) defined ‘identity’ as being recognized as a certain “kind of person.” Also, he stated that everyone has multiple identities connected to their…