While browsing through the Be More web page, the section that caught my eye included a series of short videos exemplifying the damaging affects of micro aggressions. They are termed as such because they aren’t blatant displays of racism, often passed off as genuine compliments. However, they are indicative of a deep-rooted sense of racial […]
What is an annotated bibliography? Annotated bibliographies provide basic bibliographic information in a standard style of documentation, as in a traditional bibliography or “works cited” page; the only difference is that each source is “annotated” with a statement about the text. This statement can range in length from 150-250 words and should provide insight into […]
Came across this video and thought it made a great point and expanded upon some of what was said in class.
In Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s book “Racism without Racists,” the author raises an interesting point about visibility of certain minority groups. Regarding Asian Americans, Bonilla states that in addition to doing well economically and educationally, they are still viewed as the “rising powers of East Asia,” a stereotype formed in the 1990s. Bonilla cites the 1998 Disney […]
Reading Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” only reinforced my acknowledgement of the injustice present within our communities. However, Mcintosh’s statement “My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor,” had me questioning whether someone could go as far as to call another who just so happened to have been […]
Discrimination is one of the major problems in our society today. This discrimination is not only limited to race but further extends to gender, nationality, education, physical appearance and even social status. According to the article “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh the heart of this problem rests in our basic understanding of these […]
Reading McIntosh’s article about white privilege, ironically, reminded me of another article with the title “Why I’ll Never Apologize for my White Male Privilege,” written by Tal Fortgang, a former Princeton student. He opens the narrative by mocking the popular saying “check your privilege,” which suggests that whites should be “apologetic” for the invisible power […]
This week I learned about racism from a different perspective. Peggy McIntosh brilliantly described the circumstances of racism in our day and age. One interesting sentence that McIntosh writes is, “white privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.” This sentence brings attention to […]
I’m very lucky to belong to a social group that talks about privilege– a lot. Coming into these conversations for the first time, as outsiders tend to occasionally, isn’t a comfortable process. It is painful to realize that so much of what you thought was your own hard work, what you thought you accomplished yourself, […]
In live there are many times that an in visible thing plays a role in our daily lives. Throughout history we have learned about the invisible hand, and invisible lines and thresholds. But if they make such a difference in our lives…why do we refer to them as invisible? After reading “White Privilege: Unpacking the […]
I should start by saying that I noticed the criticism towards the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva document, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, first. Thus I do not deny the possibility of bias. I can see why people find Bonilla-Silva’s article to be rather horrible. In 2006, Bonilla-Silva couldn’t […]
In “Racism Without Racists”, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva sheds light a means of social stratification regarded as Latin Americanization. Through this proposed model, a triracial divide forms between those deemed white, honorary white, and collective black (Bonilla-Silva 180). Purportedly, those who occupy a high space in this racial ladder, those in the white and high level honorary […]
The article “Racism without Racist” describes a very disturbing future triracial stratification system much like the ones in countries across Latin America with whites at the top followed by honorary whites and the collective black at the bottom— a system in which the fight against racism will be shut down by claims that racism is […]
The systems of white privilege and male privilege are very prevalent features of modern day society in the United States despite many people’s objections. In her paper, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Peggy McIntosh identifies how certain groups of people are unaware of inherit privileges that they have due to race or gender. McIntosh […]
When did white become the default race? In today’s society it seems as though you’re “diverse” if you aren’t Caucasian. And you’re ethnic if you don’t fit into the standard mold of being white or black. Taking all of these things into account, it’s hard not to wonder how this all came to be? In […]
ITF office hours are cancelled for Tuesday, March 15 and Wednesday, March 16. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email: acarrozza@gradcenter.cuny.edu. I also wanted to add a note about the online tool Social Explorer that lets you map census data onto a chosen geographic area, and then create maps […]
Daniel Cohen Discussion Blog Post #2 In the present day, after centuries of social reform, it is tempting to declare racism over. In a sense, it is, at least overtly. Public figures who say racist things in public are ostracized, programs are in place to allow the disenfranchised (who are often of a racial minority) […]
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva offered an interesting plan to assuage racial conflicts in Racism without Racists. He proposed something he called a “triracial system”. Explaining the structure of the system he writes, “the emerging triracial system will be comprised of ‘whites’ at the top, an intermediary group of ‘honorary whites’-similar to the coloreds in South Africa during formal […]
In current events, every time the word “race” is brought up it means someone is trying to achieve a political agenda. We’re not appreciating the way people identify themselves but rather condescending those that are different and making them feel insecure about their distinctiveness. It is important for individuals to link their national identity, ethnicity, […]
While McIntosh explicitly discusses white privilege and Bonilla-Silva draws the readers attention towards structures built to maintain said privilege, the two pieces appear to have a parallel in their recognition of the rationally paradoxical. Bonilla-Silva speaks at length on perception of current racist constructs, thoroughly disentangling racial colorblindness from the ideology it claims to support. […]
I found this week’s readings more difficult to relate to, particularly because I’m not Dominican and haven’t been a victim of racism, but some parts of “Black Behind the Ears” — and Up Front Too? Dominicans in The Black Mosaic by Ginetta E.B. Candelario intrigued me. The problem of identity that’s noted throughout the article is […]
The primary intention of “The Black Mosaic” was to bring a sense of cohesion between the Latino/a groups and African groups in America. While an admirable goal, I was fascinated by the notion that many intricate racial relationships can coalesce under one identity. This article concerning racial identity led me to a New York times […]
Racism began since the mass movement of Europeans to the Americas in the 17th century. When the Europeans came to the Americas, various groups of people and sects separated and became distinct with their own set of laws and religions. As time passed, these sects were distinguishable and unique, each with its own importance. Many […]
Although I am not personally qualified to speak on the experience of blacks and Afro-Latinos in America, the article on Dominicans is to me an example of internalized oppression. Because the message that blackness is inherently negative is subtly perpetuated in both Dominican and American society, Dominicans distance themselves from their black ancestry. On an […]
