The Term Race
As Europeans began to expand their empires, they took over many different parts of the world, a prime example was the Caribbean Islands. The great African Diaspora took place through the Trans-Atlantic Salve trade that created a further incentive to categorize human groups. In doing so, these Europeans justified the submission of Africans in the New World (Race (classification of Human Beings). N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Oct. 2016.) In early colonizations, like Barbados, a Slave code (set of laws) may the difference between human and property distinct. Race in itself is an ideology that is used for the classification of humans, the notion now corresponding with the term were creations of European imperialism and colonization during the age of exploration.
Barbados one of the Caribbean islands; which was colonized by the English in 1625 became iconic for its imposition of the first laws governing a subordinate group of people based on their social, physical and cultural origins in the new world. Known in todays world as the Barbados Slave Code, Gave rise to the distinction between Europeans and Africans. The rise of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the cause of the African diaspora, and the means through which Europeans traded through which continuously displaced enslaved Africans throughout the world. People coming from west Africa through trade of the Native populations in the unified slave kingdoms like Ashanti, and Dahomey.
Europeans began to sort themselves and others into groups associated with physical appearance and with deeply ingrained behaviors and capacities (Race (classification of Human Beings). N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Oct. 2016.) With the beliefs that linked physical differences along these people like intellectual, behavioral, and moral qualities(Banton 1977).
The term Negro is what the Portuguese and Spanish used to differ themselves from the enslaved Africans, and later was adopted by the English to dehumanize the African people. They used the term as a division of class. The Law codes created in Barbados was solely to control the enslaved Africans. The slave owners and slave managers, made it their objective to not mix with the Africans. Thus continuing this practice of separation of peoples. The whiter one seemed to be the better off one was in terms of social and economical status. These Laws that the government of the island set up was in order to oppress their enslaved property.
Peruvian Sociologist Anibal Quijano
hey, so let's start off with the top. The name should be on top of the page so we can know who is speaking. The title is slightly broad and it definitely could be worked on. Also citations to external sources and the sources for peer reviewed articles( even though you mention them in the text, its also good to place them separate with a link). Also, you can put the source(link) where you got the picture, it's good that you cite who is from but a link would be cool too. Overall this piece is not horrible, but few changes could be made. You forgot to mention "how you understood race and how these early lessons have impacted your view of race" which was one of the questions. Also there could be a better transition between the second paragraph to the mini third paragraph.
ReplyDeleteHi Josue, in regard to your post:
ReplyDelete1. Your title is a tad bland. Try to incorporate a title that will draw in readers.
2. More importantly, your name isn't anywhere at the top of the post. You should definitely give yourself credit for your work.
3.Content wise, you certainly seemed to have researched the topic (which is great), but you did not answer two of the other prompts our professor gave us. Referencing Paulina's comment, you also had to discuss "How you understood race and how these early lessons impacted your view of race" in addition to "a reflection on why the idea of race persists and its relevance to contemporary social relations". Professor McCoy hinted that we had to consider who has benefited and who presently benefits from dividing people into racial groups.
4. Source wise, Professor McCoy mentioned that we needed two external academic sources from peer reviewed journals (Try Google Scholar or the CCNY Library Database) and two non academic sources to supplement your writing. I highly suggest that you provide a work cited portion toward the end of your post using APA format. I also noticed that your photo needs to have some kind of link to the site that you got it from.
5. Lastly, I would also recommend that you review your punctuation(i.e "todays" needs an apostrophe between the "s" and the "y") and capitalization of words (i.e "Slave codes" in the first paragraph and "Laws" in your last paragraph) all throughout your piece.