Race is the term that divides color people and whites. People have for many years discussed the differences but not the similarities. There have been scientist that have showed and proved to us that there is no a biological difference between us and that we are all the same, from the way our bodies all have the same organs to the same set up of bones. Race is a sociological term and it’s been engraved into our mindsets since birth. W.E.B Du Bois has many theories that explains the division of race, example the color line- “the relation of the darker to lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the island of the sea”(edition 2 pg 347)
“Racial formation as the sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, lived out, transformed and destroyed” (omi and winant 93)
Race will always be the first thing a person will try to assume so they can place you in a category. While growing up I knew I was hispanic, which for a while i had no problem identifying with but it came a bit confusing when i had to pick a race on a scantron and I wasn't sure if I should put black or white because nothing else made much sense. I believe there should be no race category because the only differences between us are the pigment of our skins.
As we watched in the episode “Race: the power of an illusion” the students did a DNA analysis and were told to pick the person that they believed shared more similarities and many of them picked the person that looked more similar to them, and the results showed that there was not many similarities and that they shared similarities with those which were from different “race”. Scientist in the past have done experiments trying to prove that race is biological, from measuring skulls and brains looking at the different hair types and s, treating people of color as animals for their scientific experiments but the results would just come back proving there was no difference from the white people. (Golash - Boza pg24)
Race shouldn't be something that has so much importance because all its doing is separating us when we are all one human race.
Work cited
RACE: The Power Of An Illusion - Episode 1: The Difference Between Us (PBS Documentary). Retrieved September 19, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7_YHur3G9g
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Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria. 2016. Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach Brief Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Omi, M., & Winant, H. (1994). Racial formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (3RD ed.). New York: Routledge.
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