Race And Racial Inequality

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The purpose of my paper is to examine race and find out the role it play in social inequality. In my paper, I will be talking about race as a social construct of reality as it pertains to the analysis of Omi and Winant interpretation of racial inequality in modern societies. The objective of my paper is to define race as a concept by looking at various racial groups in society and see how differently they are treated. This paper will be looking at how racial categories are assigned to an individual and investigate the reasons associated with racial identities. I will further argue how race is constructed in terms of slavery and the role colonialism play during this time. In the last part of my paper, I will be talking about how race is being …show more content…

Omi and Winant (1986) argues that “race lies in the terrain of innate characteristics of which skin colour and other physical attributes correlate with the racial identity of a group of people” (pg.59). This is saying the physical characteristics of a person skin colour along with his or her body features is a basis on which society construct racial identities. Omi and Winant emphasize how black is referred to as non-white. The appearance of a person who belong to a particular racial group can have a positive or a negative impact on how people in society see other …show more content…

Brown (2003) argues how whiteness is a dominant race (pg.37). The dominant race was white while excluding non-whites from certain class privileges such as the right to have better health care similar to someone of a white ethnic background. It led to emergence of racial formation aim at dividing the white from the black’s base on their racial identity .A person of non-white racial identity is sometimes referred to as “others” meaning he or she does not belong, but of a different racial category {grouping of people base on racial identity and ethnicity}. The grouping of people into different racial categories is reinforcing racism in relation to keeping the white race dominant and powerful over

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