Racism In Latin America Essay
Racism: Just because other people do it, doesn’t mean its right.
A comparative study of racism based on the works of Gates and Rattansi.
Race and Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. – Rosa Parks
Racism, this simple word conjures up images of abhorrence and suffering. Brother hating brother because of the colour of their skin. Whole ethnicities of people discriminated against because they are different, and the discriminators are not taking the time to understand them and their culture. There is a book called “Racism, a very short introduction” by Ali Rattansi, in this essay …show more content…
(Rattansi 2007: 93) He looks at the history of racism and provides details behind events leading to discoveries and theories behind them.
This essay will now provide a counter argument in favor of Gate’s book for all points listed as my thesis. The first argument is about geographic area, while Gates writes mostly about his experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean he does expand his scope to Africa where the majority of slaves (11.2 million) were taken from. (Gates 2011: 2). Another point was about how European people emigrated from various countries to provide services of “whitening”. (Gates 2011: 10)
Rattansi did an excellent job of covering racism from a scientific perspective, but in Gate’s defense, he covered the classification of skin colours from all the different countries he visited. That is an aspect of science, botanists and explores have to scientifically classify their discoveries usually using Latin names. A complete list of each country and the way that they distinguish various skin colours ranging from very light to absolute black can be found in the appendix. (Gates 2011:
A comparative study of racism based on the works of Gates and Rattansi.
Race and Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome. – Rosa Parks
Racism, this simple word conjures up images of abhorrence and suffering. Brother hating brother because of the colour of their skin. Whole ethnicities of people discriminated against because they are different, and the discriminators are not taking the time to understand them and their culture. There is a book called “Racism, a very short introduction” by Ali Rattansi, in this essay …show more content…
(Rattansi 2007: 93) He looks at the history of racism and provides details behind events leading to discoveries and theories behind them.
This essay will now provide a counter argument in favor of Gate’s book for all points listed as my thesis. The first argument is about geographic area, while Gates writes mostly about his experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean he does expand his scope to Africa where the majority of slaves (11.2 million) were taken from. (Gates 2011: 2). Another point was about how European people emigrated from various countries to provide services of “whitening”. (Gates 2011: 10)
Rattansi did an excellent job of covering racism from a scientific perspective, but in Gate’s defense, he covered the classification of skin colours from all the different countries he visited. That is an aspect of science, botanists and explores have to scientifically classify their discoveries usually using Latin names. A complete list of each country and the way that they distinguish various skin colours ranging from very light to absolute black can be found in the appendix. (Gates 2011: