Social Construction Of Race Analysis
Ian F. Haney Lopez, author of The Social Construction of Race, expresses race in its true lighting. It goes deeper than the color of one’s skin, color of one’s eyes, the shape of their features, and the sound coming off their lips. The freedom of people was all based upon “the characteristics of our hair, complexion, and facial features” and that they “still influence whether we are figuratively free or enslaved.” There is nothing false that Lopez says. He completely points out the false laws that the “white man” abides by and the others are subjected to. The structure of the article is very fluid in it chronologically backs itself up.
The first part of the article is reference to the Hudgins v. Wright case. It emphasis the whole over laying …show more content…
The thought of 3 races is untrue and verified as false: Caucasoid, Negroid, Monogloid. The only race to exist today is homosapien-sapien. Gladly, he addresses skin color. He says, “this grouping is threatened by the subtle gradations of skin color as one moves south or east, and becomes untenable when the fair-skinned peoples of Northern China and Japan are considered.” How can skin color determine race if it is different within the same “race”? He concludes this section with a hopeful thought that “The rejection of race in science is now almost complete.” The antidote at the end comes from Barbara Fields’s conclusion that, “anyone who continues to believe in race as a physical attribute of individuals, despite the now commonplace disclaimers of biologists and geneticists, might as well also believe that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy is real and that the [E]arth stands still while the sun …show more content…
Overall he says few do not want to let go of the notion of biological races. Even Supreme court does not want to sever from biology, even though they have attempted to do so. In my opinion I feel as though it is a habit that is hard to break and an issues of peer pressure or social pressure to be “cool” or “right”. Even though it only takes one to start a motion towards equality.
His last part of the article, Racial Formation, discuss just that. The way these ideas of black, white, and yellow race groups came to be so. It shows it by being a social construction of human created races. It then became an integral part of the social fabric and quickly meanings changed and were passed on and dealt with in different ways. It is also true that these ideas of race are
The first part of the article is reference to the Hudgins v. Wright case. It emphasis the whole over laying …show more content…
The thought of 3 races is untrue and verified as false: Caucasoid, Negroid, Monogloid. The only race to exist today is homosapien-sapien. Gladly, he addresses skin color. He says, “this grouping is threatened by the subtle gradations of skin color as one moves south or east, and becomes untenable when the fair-skinned peoples of Northern China and Japan are considered.” How can skin color determine race if it is different within the same “race”? He concludes this section with a hopeful thought that “The rejection of race in science is now almost complete.” The antidote at the end comes from Barbara Fields’s conclusion that, “anyone who continues to believe in race as a physical attribute of individuals, despite the now commonplace disclaimers of biologists and geneticists, might as well also believe that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy is real and that the [E]arth stands still while the sun …show more content…
Overall he says few do not want to let go of the notion of biological races. Even Supreme court does not want to sever from biology, even though they have attempted to do so. In my opinion I feel as though it is a habit that is hard to break and an issues of peer pressure or social pressure to be “cool” or “right”. Even though it only takes one to start a motion towards equality.
His last part of the article, Racial Formation, discuss just that. The way these ideas of black, white, and yellow race groups came to be so. It shows it by being a social construction of human created races. It then became an integral part of the social fabric and quickly meanings changed and were passed on and dealt with in different ways. It is also true that these ideas of race are