The Construction of Race and Racism - Assignment Example

Download file to see previous pages The adaptation of Blacks and Indians was very slow in a process by the whole nation. Racism began to construct on the basis of religion and color of the people. Blacks and Indians were treated as slaves and soulless. The economy of slavery in the South forced a system based on racialism which developed the biological, zoological and botanical theories, which explained the human difference &slavery justification. (DISMANTLING RACISM: A Resource Book). From my personal point of view, Racism and slavery in the south have always been a major issue of human rights. Slaves and Blacks being treated as lesser beings is what led to a society with a born mindset against slaves and Blacks.
Historically, sociology in context with the race has failed to observe the construction of both sides of America black/white, in terms of radical inequality. The real situation of America’s society is defined by both ‘race’ and ‘whiteness’. It was observed by Blumer that the Americans race system emerged from the intersection into three events occurred in the history of America. That was the conquest of the Indians, the forced importation of Africans, and more or less solicited coming of Europeans, Asians, and Latinos. The race was created in America during the time of the 16th and 17th century. As per norms and values, the trend was that the Catholics preferred to marry Catholics, the wealthy people preferred to marry wealthy, white preferred white and black preferred black. So, the norms of endogamy became the major issue in the ‘races’ of America. In 1967, van den Berghe observed that “sociologist might regard the racial distinction as a special case of invidious status differentiation”. Blumer also pointed out the distinction of statuses among the American people.  ...Download file to see next pagesRead More