Analysis Of Growing Up In Nigeria West Africa

According to Beaueboeuf-Laufontant, racialization can be defined as the placement of groups in particular statues within the matrix of domination is justified through the generation and dissemination of controlling images. As a result of overaching ‘’matrix of domination”, a few statuses are considered normative and deserving of first class citizenship while most others are deemed constitutive of deviance and requiring subordination. As representations of subordinated groups, controlling images guide behavior toward and from these persons, constrain what is seen and believed about them, and when internalized, profoundly influence the self-perceptions of the marginalized. Like stereotypes, controlling images are generalized representations about

Growing up in Nigeria West Africa, there is also a racial difference between being a male or a female especially when it comes to going out and having the privilege to do what you want do when it comes to who you hang out with and how much you go out. When I came to Canada, I not only face racism from my peers but I also faced racism from people who are also from Nigeria as well especially the females. I remember when I was new to Canada, some kids will pick on me based on how I speak, my skin tone and tell me to go back to Africa because I am not wanted here. I was not only discriminate towards my race and cultural background, but also towards being a female especially when it comes to being a woman of color. I remember when boys or girl will taunt me and pick on me and bother me and make fun of me. Many of the male student will say “oh she is pretty for a black girl” some will say “I never knew they have light skinned girls in Africa” Many African girl that have come to Canada or any western country are always so rude and aggressive to other females not because they want to, but because many feel challenged and the best way to make themselves feel powerful and comfortable with their own life or looks they always want to oppress another female by bring them down any way and form they can. Oppression is when a person of power or privilege treats you with cruelty or unjustified treatment or control. The oppression and harsh treatment that I got from other who are not from my cultural background was not as painful as the ones I got from the people who are from my cultural background. I t was more painful to me because instead of them guiding me and trying to help me as I survive the oppression I was facing from other kids, they added into that oppression by harassing me, physically fight me but most of all following me home to pick on me and name