Julissa Encarnación
BLST 101 October 17th, 2016
Racism sparks from the beginning of the early centuries and rises once the Europeans settled in, into the new world. The term is a belief that people with darker skin are inferior to those of fair skin and white’s being superior. The race is distinguished by physical appearance and by the complexion of your skin. Using the skin tones of the enslaved Africans the Europeans used it to separate between white and black. The Europeans forced the enslaved Africans to leave their language, culture, the way they dress, and religion back home to follow the new culture that they implanted to them. The enslaved Africans were forced to live the way that Europeans wanted them.
In Barbados was one of the countries that were the beginning of the era of racialization. The demand for labor was high through the 1660’s and 1700’s. Through those time periods were the biggest imports of enslaved Africans into Barbados and from there was the start of racism. For being black, Europeans implanted to the world that black complexion meant dehumanized and evil people as oppose to white skin you were considered to be pure and innocent people. The Europeans took psychological actions to ingrained into their head that white is higher in rank and made sure the enslaved Africans know they are below them (Cecily Jones, 2003).The purpose of Europeans degrading the enslaved Africans was for them to lose their identity and become a property of the slave owners.
Codes were made to “control” the enslaved Africans and for the slave owners to protect their assets: the enslaved Africans. The Europeans have created a control over the enslaved Africans by creating these codes making the system a fraud. The image shown below is of a judge determining the faith of a black male in the courtroom. The image is a reflection of the decision-making of the judges that the enslaved Africans went through in deciding their punishment. The shades seen in the judge's hands would determine the time you would do in prison. So if a white person were to commit the same crime that a black person did the white person would do less to none than the black person. The image demonstrates white privilege is in full effect even in today’s century.
Today the world continues to face the same cycle of discrimination of race due to the past centuries and the beginning of it. In the workplace, there is discrimination against black people. In the workforce, they are seen to be weaker than the white people and the odds of a black person being hired are very low because a white person would be chosen first. The majority of the times the ones that are hiring are white people (Bobb & Fox, 2003). A YouTube video called "The Silent Truth" is a demonstration of the oppression that is dealt every day in the lives of the black community. All the negative names described to the enslaved Africans in history is present today in the black community.
BLST 101 October 17th, 2016
Racism sparks from the beginning of the early centuries and rises once the Europeans settled in, into the new world. The term is a belief that people with darker skin are inferior to those of fair skin and white’s being superior. The race is distinguished by physical appearance and by the complexion of your skin. Using the skin tones of the enslaved Africans the Europeans used it to separate between white and black. The Europeans forced the enslaved Africans to leave their language, culture, the way they dress, and religion back home to follow the new culture that they implanted to them. The enslaved Africans were forced to live the way that Europeans wanted them.
In Barbados was one of the countries that were the beginning of the era of racialization. The demand for labor was high through the 1660’s and 1700’s. Through those time periods were the biggest imports of enslaved Africans into Barbados and from there was the start of racism. For being black, Europeans implanted to the world that black complexion meant dehumanized and evil people as oppose to white skin you were considered to be pure and innocent people. The Europeans took psychological actions to ingrained into their head that white is higher in rank and made sure the enslaved Africans know they are below them (Cecily Jones, 2003).The purpose of Europeans degrading the enslaved Africans was for them to lose their identity and become a property of the slave owners.
Codes were made to “control” the enslaved Africans and for the slave owners to protect their assets: the enslaved Africans. The Europeans have created a control over the enslaved Africans by creating these codes making the system a fraud. The image shown below is of a judge determining the faith of a black male in the courtroom. The image is a reflection of the decision-making of the judges that the enslaved Africans went through in deciding their punishment. The shades seen in the judge's hands would determine the time you would do in prison. So if a white person were to commit the same crime that a black person did the white person would do less to none than the black person. The image demonstrates white privilege is in full effect even in today’s century.
Today the world continues to face the same cycle of discrimination of race due to the past centuries and the beginning of it. In the workplace, there is discrimination against black people. In the workforce, they are seen to be weaker than the white people and the odds of a black person being hired are very low because a white person would be chosen first. The majority of the times the ones that are hiring are white people (Bobb & Fox, 2003). A YouTube video called "The Silent Truth" is a demonstration of the oppression that is dealt every day in the lives of the black community. All the negative names described to the enslaved Africans in history is present today in the black community.
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Reference
- Lawrence D. Bobo and Cybelle Fox. (2013, Dec) Race, Racism, and Discrimination: Bridging Problems, Methods, and Theory in Social Psychological Research, American Sociological Association, pp. 319-332 vol. 66, No. 4 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1519832
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-Jones, Cecily. (2003) Contesting the boundaries of gender, race and sexuality in Barbadian plantation society. Women's History Review, Vol.12 (No.2). pp. 195-232. ISSN 0961-2025
-Editors, T. (2015, July 13). Your Stories Of Racism. Retrieved October 03, 2016, from http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/07/your-stories-of-racism/398117/
-Scott, W. R., & Shade, W. G. (2000). Upon these shores: Themes in the African American experience, 1600 to the present. New York: Rutledge.
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