The Matter of Whiteness 1
The Matter of Whiteness 1
Running head: White Privilege
The Matter of Whiteness
Spacemantj
The Matter of Whiteness
Richard Dyer said “racial imagery is central to the organization of the modern world” because he felt most decisions that represent the practices of the world are based on white man’s ideologies and images in western culture. White people remain a large category that has not been examined in contrast to the many studies of images on African Americans and other groups of color. For too long western American cultures subtlety allow privileges to whites because white people are not racially seen as white, but are seen as a racial position in white dominance and this is the guideline for society norms. Everywhere you look you can see that white people are largely represented as what are norms for our society. Whites have considerably higher paying jobs than most people of color (fugitively speaking), and until five years ago they were higher in the area of the home ownership arena. Look all around you and across the country you see their children attend the best equipped schools (be it private or public). Yes I do agree that with Richard Dyer that racial imagery is important and research should be done on white lifestyle, mostly because some whites themselves think that life the way they know it, is the way it is suppose to be. Some of them actually think they are the only ones’ to be entitled to the positive aspect of life. The education systems are set up so their children at very young ages are taught about concepts and problem solving, and that is why they succeed better than we do on standardize testing and other test that or geared for them. You take the inter-city child living with two not well educate parents who do the best they can to help their child succeed in school. The schools books in their communities have not been updated for years; some of the books in the school were the old book of the
Running head: White Privilege
The Matter of Whiteness
Spacemantj
The Matter of Whiteness
Richard Dyer said “racial imagery is central to the organization of the modern world” because he felt most decisions that represent the practices of the world are based on white man’s ideologies and images in western culture. White people remain a large category that has not been examined in contrast to the many studies of images on African Americans and other groups of color. For too long western American cultures subtlety allow privileges to whites because white people are not racially seen as white, but are seen as a racial position in white dominance and this is the guideline for society norms. Everywhere you look you can see that white people are largely represented as what are norms for our society. Whites have considerably higher paying jobs than most people of color (fugitively speaking), and until five years ago they were higher in the area of the home ownership arena. Look all around you and across the country you see their children attend the best equipped schools (be it private or public). Yes I do agree that with Richard Dyer that racial imagery is important and research should be done on white lifestyle, mostly because some whites themselves think that life the way they know it, is the way it is suppose to be. Some of them actually think they are the only ones’ to be entitled to the positive aspect of life. The education systems are set up so their children at very young ages are taught about concepts and problem solving, and that is why they succeed better than we do on standardize testing and other test that or geared for them. You take the inter-city child living with two not well educate parents who do the best they can to help their child succeed in school. The schools books in their communities have not been updated for years; some of the books in the school were the old book of the
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