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SOCIOLOGY AND HUMAN SERVICES
Sociology and Human Services: Diverse Perspectives
Summary of the Article
Following is the article critique of Black women often ignored by social justice movements written by Stewart M. Coles (https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/07/black-women-social-justice). The article reflects on the racial and gender discrimination that Black women have to face. The feminist movements for this specific ethnic category are not helping Black women but adding to their stereotyping (Coles, 2020). The consequences they have to face afterward further amplify the racial gap, even an intersectional invisibility regarding gender.
The perspective that it reflects is racial and gender discrimination. Racial discrimination because Black women face the disparity based on their skin color and ethnic background as this race has been a victim of slavery for several decades. Gender discrimination is another element discussed in the article as Black women have to experience disadvantageous behaviors from others, even Black men, based on gender. The unequal treatment sometimes leads to sexual harassment in police or bus stations, as cited in the article.
The diversity issue addressed is based on the discrimination observed in every aspect of Black womens lives. It could be in the workplace, lifestyle acceptability, stereotyping in regular lives, and insensitive attitudes towards Black females compared to White ones. More cases of domestic and sexual abuse are reported for Black women compared to White women from their partners. The article highlights that the anti-racist movement seems to contribute more towards their marginalization rather than providing support on the contrary.
Racial discrimination is important since it is an evident violation of human rights, specifically under the U.S. Constitution. However, a thorough eradication of this international violation does not seem to be deployed in the form of a doctrine (Bradley, 2019). Any law perpetrator should be punished, even within schools, so accurate preventive measures are taken for the better mental health of Black people.
Discussion of Alternative Perspective
An alternate perspective of racial discrimination is the privilege it could provide for Black women. For example, being free of the fear that a Black female would be followed late into the night after getting off the bus and walking home would be a benefit. Eliminating the fear that she might be sexually harassed at night would be a free world that racial support could offer. It could be deemed an affiliation within the...…serve its entirety. A persons version of reality might obscure his larger comprehension of the world, and the cross-sectional analysis could serve as a value-added factor for the exposure. One side of a coin is not a generalized representation of the mistakenly holistic picture of the issue.
My perception of this experience is that it could be problematic that I keep blaming the Whites for racial and gender discrimination against Black women. The view could be incomplete as the self-assurance could not be able to give me a complete reality that exhibits the whole story. There is an evolutionary adaptation of racial privilege that certain races do enjoy as they feel secure within the same type of people and their collaboration.
The most challenging aspect of this paper was to find how, despite extensive research evidence that Blacks have been victims of racial discrimination for ages, the racial privilege could be an operational factor working its wonders on the other hand. Finding a new perspective on what we have been taught through the years is challenging to construct and a frame that might appear seamless in the beginning.
References
Bradley, A.S. (2019). Human rights racism. Harvard Human Rights Journal, 32. https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/libro7-68.pdf
Coles, S.M. (2020, July 13). Black women often ignored by social justice movements. American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/07/black-women-social-justice
Cuncic, A. (2020, August 25). What is White privilege? Very Well Mind. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-white-privilege-5070460
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