Summary Of Leith Mullings Interrogating Racism
Anthropology is the study of human nature in society and how we as a society develop and grow. Anthropologists are those people who study this nature and develop theories and such explaining how things influence the growth of a society. Anthropologists take a wide approach to understanding the different aspects of the human experience. They want to know the why’s: the reasons why things happen and work in a variety of fields and workplaces alike. Anthropologists offer a lot in terms of information regarding how people react and respond to matters of the world, how they interact with each other, how different societies are both alike and different. Anthropologists are key because they offer useful insight as to how we grow and we can use that
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They help us as a society understand our own norms and want to understand what is important to us. They listen to all possible viewpoints to see the perspectives, practices, and social organization of a group, then offer insight as to how we as a people can either use it to our advantage or combat it to prevent negative consequences. One such case is Leith Mullings and one article of her’s titled “Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology”, where she discusses the topic of racism and whether or not it is innate in us or if it is learned. Mullings explains that the latter of the two is the case. However, that racism is not a widely covered topic in anthropology because of the nature of the belief, and it’s “contradictory history”. She comes to a point in the article where she explains to us how we as a society can combat racism. She makes a clear point in her article that there is no shortage of potential in anthropology. She says that we must first “scrutinize our own discipline”, meaning that we’re better off taking on the issue head-on rather than leaving it off to the side and ignoring it or even denying it overall which could end up negatively impacting us. Mullings also argues that we need to we need to pay close attention to what work gets valued, and whose gets left out/ignored and what factors could be behind these kinds of decisions. Pretty much it’s up to us as a society to draw out the negative prejudices that racism brings and combat it
They help us as a society understand our own norms and want to understand what is important to us. They listen to all possible viewpoints to see the perspectives, practices, and social organization of a group, then offer insight as to how we as a people can either use it to our advantage or combat it to prevent negative consequences. One such case is Leith Mullings and one article of her’s titled “Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology”, where she discusses the topic of racism and whether or not it is innate in us or if it is learned. Mullings explains that the latter of the two is the case. However, that racism is not a widely covered topic in anthropology because of the nature of the belief, and it’s “contradictory history”. She comes to a point in the article where she explains to us how we as a society can combat racism. She makes a clear point in her article that there is no shortage of potential in anthropology. She says that we must first “scrutinize our own discipline”, meaning that we’re better off taking on the issue head-on rather than leaving it off to the side and ignoring it or even denying it overall which could end up negatively impacting us. Mullings also argues that we need to we need to pay close attention to what work gets valued, and whose gets left out/ignored and what factors could be behind these kinds of decisions. Pretty much it’s up to us as a society to draw out the negative prejudices that racism brings and combat it