Black Folk Don T: Swim Analysis

If you want to stir up emotions that will either get some people rowdy, some distraught, and others to avoid all answers, talk about race. Sociologist are constantly battling the topic of race because most people define race as the color of someone’s skin color yet, it has meaning much more complex. The definition of race and ethnicity is, “social, historical, and philosophical process that people have down for hundreds of year and are still doing” (Markus Moya 4). In this paper, you will learn about Markus and Moya “Doing Race”, an article discussing race, ethnicity and how they play apart in everyday life. A video called “Black Folk Don’t: Swim”, which leads to the discussion of different stereotypes and where they are originated from. Followed

Peggy McIntosh’s essay was the first to enlighten us on white privilege but many still have defined white privilege differently in the post-McIntosh era. White privilege in pre-1980’s is different than post-1980’s because of the foundation America was made on. In pre-1980’s white privilege was expected because African Americans were seen as 3/5 of a person when it came to voting and other categories. Being white in this time you were guaranteed citizenship, rights to vote, to own property and usually to have education. The post-1980’s time, McIntosh talks about how our hierarchies in society are interlocking and although some deny the truth of white privilege, it is alive. Acknowledging white privilege is admitting advantage in society over minorities. Although times are changing, there are two examples of white privilege I have witnessed first-hand. Driving through Albuquerque, New Mexico I was pulled over with my brother who looks like hippy from the woods for an expired tag. I was taken out of the car and back to the officer when he asked if there were drugs in the car because he could smell them, shortly after he questioned my brother who handed him two joints and HTC pills. The officer gave my brother back his marijuana and continued with how they were looking for people who were smuggling drugs into the country from Mexico. Since my brother is a white male, he was let off with no warning or ticket, just a “have a good day sir”. Another white privilege I have experienced is when my family bought a new truck, although they do not have perfect credit they were still able to get financing and a low interest rate. Meanwhile my aunt who married a Mexican, even though they have the same credit score, received zero financing and an interest rate of over 20% for a car older than the one my family purchased. White privilege is