Language of Color

Morgana Wallace — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:03:42 +0000

After centuries of racial pejoratives and terms focusing on the absence of whiteness, the commonly standard term describe those whose ethnicities can be described as something other than white is “person(s) of color.” This is leaps and bounds better than more archaic terms which were used, with “colored” being similar linguistically but becoming pejorative socially and “negro” being a word borrowed from a language other than English, thereby further emphasizing the “otherness” of people of ...

Supremacy and Privilege: The Insidious Consequences of Language

Becky Goodman — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:06:15 +0000

The social constructs that define our reality seem so natural and organic it is as if they were created along with the four elements. But we know that things like race and gender were built by people in order to create a hierarchal society, so how do we begin to deconstruct the categories we both rely on and often cannot see? I suggest that the first step to deconstruction is changing how we describe our ...

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Language of Color

Supremacy and Privilege: The Insidious Consequences of Language