Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible pt. 1

 This movie is about Whitness and is a good link to Peggy McIntosh´s essay "White Privelege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and generelly about the historie. This movie makes me very thoughtful.

Women of Colour in University.

A.  Kobayashi argues in her essay “Now You See Them, How You See Them: Women of Colour in Canadian Academia” in F. Henry & C.Tator:  “Racism in the Canadian University: Demanding Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equity”, that racism in university is an effect of systematic discrimination. The systematic racism is a result of the Andocentric and Eurocentric structure of the ‘old white boys’ network (Kobayashi 2009, p. 61). Her focus is on women of colour. “The visible minority of women of colour are much more poorly represented than their male counterpart.” (Kobayashi 2009, p. 61) 

Racism and Stereotypes in Advertising

We spoke in class about Racism in the media, and I chose this video because you can see with this example the stereotypes and images that we have in our head, or images that the media puts in our minds.  There are some positive and some negative images.

George M. Fredrickson "Racism: A Short History"

"With a rare blend of learning, economy, and cutting insight, George Fredrickson surveys the history of Western racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to the present. Beginning with the medieval antisemitism that put Jews beyond the pale of humanity, he traces the spread of racist thinking in the wake of European expansionism and the beginnings of the African slave trade. And he examines how the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century romantic nationalism created a new intellectual context for debates over slavery and Jewish emancipation.Fredrickson then makes the first sustained comparison between the color-coded racism of nineteenth-century America and the antisemitic racism that appeared in Germany around the same time." in according of Amazon

Racism in Cartoons

I also found this video that is linked with Racism in the media, and it's so sad that little kids have to see and read comics with racist images. The comics which our generation has seen as little children could effect the way we feel about people of different races in our adult lives.

I couldn´t explain this better than the two following comments:

"Many idiots putting comments on here are saying,"Well I didn't see anything racist about it." LOOK at how these people are drawn, you morons. (if its not you posting these comments, don't be worried) How would you white folks like it if I were to draw you with a 20 foot nose with a disgusting carcass smelling stench coming from your body while calling you"An incestous peckerwood" btw I don't give a shit who gets offended by my comment because all I'm going to do is snap back!"

"Im gettin tiered of some of you who ware trying to play this off like its not racist. Its not the fact that they were putting black people in the cartoon its they way the depicted them in the cartoons. Let me put it this way: If I draw a white person with a pointy nose who is not athletic, cant dance, runs slow and puts mayonnaise on every thing he eats that would make me a racist right? But making black people way too dark and having big pink lips and making them eat watermelon is not racist?"

Black Men in America - Media Images

When we spoke in class about Racism in the media I found this video. It is a short documentary about the negative portrayal of black men in america in the media world. They are the roots for stereotypes and I feel very sad when I see this.

Racist Images On Bars Of Soap Being Sold At A Store

This is a story about bars of soap with racist images beeing sold at a store, but the owner does not acknowledge the racism. He argues that customers buy the soap, so he will keep selling it. This reminds me of the Topic "too blind to see racism".