Shifting Away from Social Identities and Categories

Ivie Mims — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 17:24:43 +0000

Here with in the United States, there is growing demand for a societal change in how we currently conceptualize and value social labels. Social labels are seen as valuable because it allows us to easily identify, associate, and group people who share a social label. However the grouping of individuals based on their label into social groups like race and gender have been the justification for the perpetuation of systematic oppression for centuries. The oppression ...

Addressing an Individual of Another Race

Tory — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:53:26 +0000

This past weekend I went to see the movie Red Tails in theaters which is the story of the a group of African American fighter pilots during World War II. They are faced with a great deal of racism as they are viewed to be not as capable to fight against the Germans in comparison to the other White pilots. Towards the end of the movie the African American pilots start to conquer many missions ...

labels – Contemporary Racism

Shifting Away from Social Identities and Categories

Addressing an Individual of Another Race