divide races differently while we consider the main races to be black, white, Asian, Native American, and Pacific Islanders. Race is a social construct because theorists simply claim that everyone is the same. For example, W.E.B. du Bois argued how Black Americans received American citizenship, however they did not get the same rights as the whites and other citizens. This highlights the inequalities between black and white rather than allowing the former to practice their own rights. Hence, we can
Asian Americans: or, How Has Systemic Racism Pervaded the Asian American Experience: or, it’s been like 150 years, why are we not white yet? The Two Asian Americas – Karan Mahajan Mahajan’s article summarizes the main points of the book The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee. It begins with a description of the circumstances behind the suicide of Vaishno Das Bagai, an Indian immigrant, in 1928. It then describes several instances of anti-Asian racism that have happened recently as proof that, after
fully understanding his question, I hesitantly replied that I am African American. With disbelief, he asked me what my parents were. When my answer was the same, he laughed and tried to convince me that I was actually Somalian, like him. I merely laughed with him because this was not the first and most likely not the last that I will encounter the “what
In a house of five similar looking children, the difference in one child would change my perspective on the world completely. My sister Falesha, the oldest after me, is merely 14 years old. She shares most of the same features as me, acts like me at times, and often wears my clothes, but the fact remains that no matter how homologous we are, Falesha will always feel inferior. Why is it that? Is it because she is younger than me? Is it because I have raised the bar so high that she will never meet
have no contact and they don’t know each other or their philosophies. My insight in the subject of Hindu philosophy is that the Brahman in the form of Atman is the source of all we do and ideas here in earth that’s why they have the similarities between them.