This I Believe – The Whiteness Project For this assignment I chose to reflect on the interview from “The Whiteness Project” by a 17 year-old girl named Leilani whose interview is titled “Stop talking about racism‚ just stop.” I chose to write about what she said because it really does reflect almost exactly what I feel about the topic of racism and “Whiteness” and everything related to the topic. In her interview‚ Leilani talks about how she feels that if people would just stop talking about race
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Faces of Whiteness 1 Running Head: FACES OF WHITENESS Faces of Whiteness 2 Abstract The article “Faces of Whiteness: Pitfalls and the Critical Democrat“ by John T. Warren and Kathy Hytten is an article that reviews what it means to be white. The article’s writers questioned how white students experienced diversity education information. After reviewing the article‚ I was led to decide where I was in the proposed construct suggested by the article as a white student. The following is my
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Historiographical Review (Whiteness of a Different Color) Throughout U.S. history race has proven time and time again to be a focal point of many countries’ issues and conversations. As time has changed so have the definitions of who is white. In Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race‚ Matthew Frye Jacobsen argues that the idea of race and whiteness has changed rapidly in U.S. history because of the strength it holds to serve as tool of power. In short Jacobsen’s
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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness Chapter 1: Opinion Although America’s ideals have radically changed over the decades‚ white privilege still runs rampant. As a general rule‚ in society‚ whites are still regarded as the most powerful and most successful. When the average U.S. citizen thinks of the “typical American man”‚ the image of a white‚ forty-something‚ financially well-off business executive may come to their mind; in other words‚ a man of high rank and superiority. It isn’t that
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the United States by its white inhabitants from its very beginning. These ideals were created in order to suppress minorities‚ most specifically the entire Black race‚ while constructing the superiority of whiteness and it’s power over the nation as a whole. This construction of whiteness was built on the enslavement of Blacks‚ but went so much deeper than the use of controlled labor. Within the constraints of slavery many methods were used to in order to physically‚ psychologically‚ emotionally
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these privileges serve within our own lives. This article allowed me to think about my own privileges in more depth. I also began to think about one of the past articles that had been assigned‚ I believe it was the one about the invisibility of whiteness by Michael Kimmel. He wrote about a conversation that he overheard between a black woman and a white woman. The white woman claims that she and the black woman are sisters because they suffer from the same disadvantages. However‚ the black woman
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In ‘The “Morphing” Properties of Whiteness’‚ Troy Duster addresses that people view whiteness form two perspectives; race as arbitrary and whimsical versus race as structural and enduring. The classification of race is arbitrary and often whimsical‚ exampled by the fact that ‘one drop of blood’ from any race does not constitute labeling an individual as undeniably belonging to that race‚ the idea that race is something identifiable with fixed borders that could be crossed and mixed which means there
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Crystal Tate McCubbins 1/23/12 Per.4 Amelia Dyer Amelia Dyer was born the youngest of five children‚ in the small village of Pyle Marsh. She was the daughter of a master shoe maker Samuel Hobley and Sarah Hobley. She learned to read and write but although she lived somewhat of a privileged life it was tainted by the mental illness of her mother‚ caused by typhus. Amelia witnessed her mother’s violent fits and cared for her until she died in 1848. As the years progressed Amelia became estranged
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talks‚ and acts all make up who they are as a person. When someone does something the way they are seen often affects the outcome and consequences of their actions. This is seen very often in both Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin. The main characters in both of these novels do awful things but their physical appearance‚ mindset‚ and whether they are a good or a bad person affects the way they are treated. The way society sees a person’s overall appearance
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imagines that all cultures can‚ not only coexist‚ but borrow from each other and blend together into a colorblind mush. Colorblindness is racism‚ and often‚ when people say they don’t see color‚ what they mean is they only see the absence of it: whiteness. The melting pot ideology also allows others to have claim to other cultures‚ and it’s not validating to tell mixed people that just because we access multiple cultures‚ entitled to the same.
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