Race And Racism Essay

Race and racism have been among the history of United States and continue to impact of society. For one to say that racism no longer amidst us, is a blind accusation that can be proven false with many proofs. Although, to find the origin and theories of race and racism can be difficult. By analyzing documents from the past we can discover where race and racism might have risen from. Some of the texts that are able to aid us are End Notes, From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, Bratton Brand, Baltimore Epistolary.
End Notes is a collection of articles that addresses broad matter of subjects but, in Volume 4 the title is presented as Unity In Sepearation. This subtitle is more fitting to the topic we will be discussing, theories and histories of …show more content…
Lois Wacqaunt states that race was created by slavery, Jim Crow, and the ghetto. Explaining to the readers that each of these things are what keeping the African Americans in their place. Slavery dehumanized the Blacks, Jim Crow kept Blacks from doing, essentially, anything, and ghetto was abled to keep them out of contact with the Whites. Therefore, the race’s theory and history came from America’s power to contain …show more content…
Race is defined as a successful way of one race, with a mindset of superiority over other, suppressing the other race by manipulating their ability to grow or prosper. The source of my definition of race was From Slavery to Mass incarceration and the reason is the author states that blacks were contained by using slavery, Jim Crow, and the ghetto. Although the definition that was created was not a direct citation from the article, but by understanding of the piece, I was able to construct a suitable definition of