Reflection On Race Card Project

Throughout this semester, I have been challenged to think about how I view different races, genders, and classes. The assignment that challenged me to think the most was the race card project. The race card project is a task to describe what race means to you in six words. It prompted me think about how much the word race means to people. Although there are many skin colors, we are all the same inside. Sociology by definition, can be described as the systematic study of human societies. Sociologists study the social context in which we live because we are more social beings than we are individuals. We have learned how we see sex, gender, and race differently during this course. During the race portion of the course, we were assigned to do the race card project. Although the race card project was primarily revolved around race (of course), it also involved gender. I found while reading other submissions that gender played a huge role in discrimination. It was evident that more submissions were from African American woman than African American men. Race is a socially constructed idea that refers to people who
I had always thought that all the races had little differences in organs or bone structure. I guess I can see now how I was wrong. The only way for any type of transplantation to work would be to have that genetically identical materials and of course the correct blood type. It’s interesting how the organs of an African American male can be the same as a Caucasian female. There is a conspiracy theory going around the internet that African Americans are being killed for their organs. One young man by the name of Kendrick Johnson was found rolled up in an exercise mat behind the bleachers at his high school. He was found with his internal organs replaced with newspaper (Conspiracy Theory, 2013) On the black market, African American organs and bones are going for high