Summary Of Race As Class

In this article" Race As Class" by Herbert J. Gans, he illuminates that race is an irrelevant representation of individual groups of people since we are of similar species. The main point or the Thesis of this article is The last sentence of the fifth paragraph. “As long as people can roughly agree about who looks white yellow or black and find that the notion of race works for their purposes, they ignore its inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and other deficiencies”. As people we can interbreed with each other so separating us between races is insignificant and pointless. His reasoning depends on us the human species as an indivisible unit. Once an unreasonable number of people have their own particular interpretation of race its definition alone gets the chance to be unrealistic and unstable. For example, some people use race to signify or symbolize whether an individual is safe, intimidating or
Is it moral? By no means. He also recommends that African American Exceptionalism is incorporated in the way that there is more space to climb the stepping stool in the work environment for most African Americans. The author also turns to history where in the past they were really "lynched" for getting to be anything other than unsuccessful. He clarifies that nowadays it is not as bad but nothing has really changed because they are still bothered at work and fundamentally prevented by rank and class that they cannot reach and keeping them from moving further in their profession. This is only one stop on the endless loop in light of the fact that as more African Americans can't advance, others hardly come across employment at all and tragically plunge into a life of unlawful methods just to put food on the table. This criminal activity has pushed police officers and the justice systems to naturally focus on those of the African American