Summary
The case "Road to Hell" by Gareth Evans made us reevaluate our views towards racism issues in modern society. Often enough these issues can not be fully covered by standard legalistic approach and need a deeper research to prove that racism has been a cause of the major problem within a community, organization or a whole society. CRT has helped us justify our position that unintentional racism by John Baker caused the conflict within the organization and resignation of one of the key employees, Matt Rennalls. I used three characteristics of racism in the analysis of the characters ' behavior including One group believes itself to be superior, That group has the power to carry out racist behavior, Racism affects multiple groups. And i also found that all five elements of CTR could be applied to this case study is the central nature of race and racism, a challenge to dominant ideology, a commitment to social justice, the central nature of knowledge that comes from experience, an interdisciplinary
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What, in your opinion, did Baker hope to accomplish as a result of his conversation with Rennalls? Did he succeed? Why or why not? Baker hoped to be able to get Rennalls to admit his resentment towards other races, specifically Europeans. I feel that his purpose was to get it out in the open so that it could be discussed, and thereby dealt with before he took on the job of chief engineer, a role that would require equitable and amicable treatment of subordinates from races other than his own. After the first reading of the article, I was under the impression that Baker was between a rock and a hard place, due to the fact that it was not just his own perception of Rennalls ' behavior, which he may have been able to overlook, but the perception by all Europeans working for the company that Rennalls had a race consciousness problem. The complaint of Martha Jackson, and a conflict with Godson, another employee, helped to lean my assessment in that