Race

Lasana Trawally

Question: Is race necessary?

Why I picked this question

Spanish Class
personal experience

What I know

refers to groups of people who have differences and similarities in biological traits deemed by
society to be socially significant

based on skin color, looks.

American Indian or Alaska Native: A person

having origins in any of the original peoples of
North and South America (including Central
America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or
community attachment.
Asian: A person having origins in any of the
original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia,
or the Indian subcontinent including, for
example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea,
Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands,
Thailand, and Vietnam.
Black or African American: A person having
origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
Terms such as "Haitian" or "Negro" can be used
in addition to "Black or African American".
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: A
person having origins in any of the original
peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific
Islands.

What I wanted to learn

How race affects us

Is really necessary

Research

http://www.pbs.org/race/002_SortingPeople/002_01-sort.htm

Ancient greek differentiate people based on culture and languages, physical appearance

Foreigners can be Greek citizens if they adopt the language, customs, and dress

First Census of 1790

3/5th Compromise: only three-fifths of the slave population was counted for the purpose of taxation
and representation in Congress

The word slave derives from Slavs: which were prisoners from Slavonic tribes captured by the German
and sold, during the Middle Ages(1300)

Nba Referees

The Knife Fight Experiment

The knife experiment was an experiment done by a psychologists, who people two
photograph
the first photograph shows two white mens fighting, one holding a knife and the other
unarmed. Then they show the second photograph, this one shows a white man with a
knife fighting an unarmed African-American man. When they asked people about who
was holding the knife in the first picture, they guess right, but when asked to identify
the man holding the knife in the second picture some people both black and white
picked the African-American man.
This is a language gap when it come to race. Some whites confine racism to
intentional displays of racial hostility. It's the Ku Klux Klan, racial slurs in public,
something "bad" that people do.

What I learned

51% Hispanic would prefer to be identified by the origin of their family

24% uses Hispanic" or "Latino"

21% use the term American

Conclusion

Not necessary

Would focused on one race.

Resource

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/12/the-financial-consequences-of-saying-black-vs-african-american/383999/

http://www.pbs.org/race/001_WhatIsRace/001_00-home.htm

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rosspomeroy/2014/01/28/think-they-all-look-alike-thats-just-the-other-race-effect/.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2566514/.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/us/ferguson-racism-or-racial-bias/

http://www.luggageonline.com/lolnews/language-race/

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/04/04/study-most-hispanics-prefer-describing-identity-from-familys-country-of-origin/

https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/

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