Social Vocabulary: Race, By Barbara Jeanne Fields
Alejandro Haro
9/19/2011
mangin hist.17A
Barbara Jeanne Fields main point seems to be that race could be non existant in our every day life if we all cooperate to eliminate the term from our culture. She claims, that "race" is just an ideology that we create and re- create as a society. There are passages where fields mentions that "race" is not biological. By this she means that there is no way that race is in our genes, therefore being no way for "race" to be handed down from generation to generation. She claims that we have the key to what social vocabulary we give the power to in the future. (social vocabulary: ideology: "RACE") Fields definition of ideology is simple. She says that ideology is transmitted through
9/19/2011
mangin hist.17A
Barbara Jeanne Fields main point seems to be that race could be non existant in our every day life if we all cooperate to eliminate the term from our culture. She claims, that "race" is just an ideology that we create and re- create as a society. There are passages where fields mentions that "race" is not biological. By this she means that there is no way that race is in our genes, therefore being no way for "race" to be handed down from generation to generation. She claims that we have the key to what social vocabulary we give the power to in the future. (social vocabulary: ideology: "RACE") Fields definition of ideology is simple. She says that ideology is transmitted through