Question

Identify and define at least 5 fallacies about racism. What areas of life does racism affect? Define the two types of racism (institutional and interpersonal). What is symbolic violence when it comes to race? At one time Jews dominated basketball; now it is a game almost exclusively for African Americans. The text authors identify at least two reasons why both of these groups came to dominate the game? What are those reasons? Which group of people erected the original section of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.? List at least 5 examples of how whiteness surrounds us though it often goes unnamed. Define the phrase "white privilege." Give at least 3 examples. Who wrote, "Color is not a human or personal reality; it is a political reality."

Answer 1

ANSWER:

Racism is a type of discrimination, that which occurs when a person or group of people hates others for having different characteristics or qualities, such as skin color, language or place of birth.

One of the most common causes of racist attitudes can be found in fear of what is different or of people who come from other countries, due to ignorance or lack of information about it.

Explanation:

The first of the three fundamental fallacies that establish the racist belief is that there is a hierarchy of races with some races naturally superior to others in every way. All other races supposedly follow in descending order from highest to lowest in intelligence, ability, talent, genius, courage, strength, beauty, or any valuable human attribute.

The second fallacy has to do with the intellectual, psychological, artistic, musical, social, and cultural capacities that are genetically related to the person's race. What this does is assign to each race certain abilities or even innate disabilities that are passed down through generations.

the third false premise is that the races are separate and distinct, without common or significant ancestry, and that their mixture produces inferior offspring.

2. Institutional racism

The adjective “racist” is also used to refer to laws or institutions that discriminate against people based on their roots. This is the case of institutional racism, embodied in forms of organization and distribution of power that have been fixed in rules, statutes, etc.

-‘Interpersonal racism ’: practiced by informal individuals or groups that professionally are not in hierarchical superiority over the victims, nor do they officially subscribe to racist ideology. This type of racism includes actions aimed at influencing the behavior of other people, arguing against certain human groups under cultural pretexts, and manipulating data in order to generate currents of public opinion adapted to favor the belief of inferiority of some human groups over others.

3.Symbolic violence is attitudes, gestures of contempt towards people of other races. It includes attitudes, gestures, behavior patterns and beliefs.

In the Western tradition the European white race is invariably number one in this hierarchy, with the African race generally designated the dishonor of being the lowest. Of course, it has taken a great deal of colonization, domination, and violence to keep these erroneous beliefs on the minds of millions through the centuries. It will take a massive educational effort to eradicate these ideas, as well as the other two fallacies of racist ideology.

4.White privilege is a social privilege that benefits those identified by society as white in some countries, over and above what non-white people commonly experience in the same social, political and / or economic circumstances. It is a concept used in academic perspectives, such as in critical race theory and whiteness studies, to analyze how racism and racialized societies affect the lives of white or white skinned people.

 

Examples of white privilege:

• A person crosses the street to avoid walking with a group of young people  blacks.

• A person calls 911 to report the presence of a person from  color who, according to the others, behaves legally.

• A police officer shoots an unarmed person of color because he "fears for his  life time".

• A jury convicts a person of color guilty of a violent crime to  despite having little evidence.

• A federal intelligence agency prioritizes the investigation of black activists

and Latinos instead of investigating the activities of white supremacists.