Racism And Stereotypes In The 1930's

Racism and stereotypes have been a long discussed and involving issue throughout the world for as long as different races have interacted. Whether it just be from one race believing they are superior to another, or simply from fighting between the races. There seems to be no end to the matter, no matter how many laws or rules are made and changed there will always be racism and stereotypes in the world. The best way to attempt to stop the racism and stereotypes that currently exist is to solve the issue at its source. Society. The word stereotype has been around for over two hundred years, with racism coming into play during the early 1930’s. Both have been used against races different from the race of the group using it. Most commonly it is used by certain ethnic groups to describe another, within America this was used to describe African Americans. Americans believed themselves to be superior to the Africans of whom were brought over on boats to become slaves. While another example would be
The term is most likely associated with different races interacting with each other. One example of this was with the African Americans who were freed from being slaves, after they were officially freemen, their race as a whole had to face discrimination in the form of racism. This racism lasted for over a decade before a law was passed to make this illegal, even with these laws being passed the racism continued in private or in some cases right in front of people who just did not care to intervene. The root of racism is set up in multiple ways, whether it be genetic markers such as race or simply being religion. “This specific genetic constitution gives rise to a particular race or nationality or ethnicity and the belief that one certain race is in some way superior to the other. This idea or concept or belief that one race is superior to the other is the root of racism.” (Kaushik,