Essay On Racial Tensions In America

Before we look to the future we must look to the past. Since race has been the topic of many conversations throughout the years, an extensive amount of research has been done over it. However, since the research has been extensive, this researcher decided to condense my selection to only research done over racial tensions in America, race between generations, race in colleges and universities and mixed races in America.
The research started with journals over race in America. This topic was the bases of my research and one of my main focuses. With my topic, race in America has to be fully covered to begin to understand what race in America is about. I stress America because while most believe that race is only a problem in the United States, this is not the case. Racial tensions can be found all around the world. And while they may not be exactly identical to that of
This topic became important mostly because many years ago, the mixing of races, especially in the south, was illegal. However, as the races gain freedom and equality, the races have begun to mix. This brings importance to the overall topic because this mixing of races forms another category of people who were not thought of before in America. Being a person of mixed races brings about different challenges and thoughts. Mixed raced people are faced, in most cases, with choosing one race over the other in America. “Some identify primarily with one of their heritages, some with two or more, and some as “multiracial,” “biracial,” “hapa,” or some other term that indicates being mixed.” However, some “choose not to identify along U.S. racial categories by deconstructing race or by opting out of the categorization system” (Renn 2004, p. 67). So in the changing of America’s racial tensions, one must look to the future and ask those who are a part of it how they feel about race in