Visibility of ‘race’ as a social construction: A study on the colour-dilemma of the African- Americans
Author Affiliations
- 1Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 110067, India
Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 11, Issue (2), Pages 55-59, April,14 (2022)
Abstract
Since time immemorial, ‘race’ as a controversial theory has always been contested, debated, refuted as well as reproduced. While some scholars attributes it as an inherited ‘biological giving’, some other linked as a socially constructed identity. In the paper, effort lies towards explaining this new sociological approach to race, the ‘normalised’ double consciousness based on body-colour as well as to glimpse on to how racism subtly came to be ascertained in our everyday-ness behaviour. What it is to be a coloured- person in the West? Does racism has any scientific validity or reasoning? How dangerous is the equation of racism with feminism? Perhaps the Black Americans identity struggle towards a more dignified positioning will be broadly looked into.
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