Racism: Real life or just

TV?

Members:
Karla Neumann
Josefa Brintrup
Ignacia Salazar
Teacher:
Miss Ana Loyola
Introduction

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which
often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on
their race or ethnicity. Sometimes groups and organisations can have
rules that seem to be fair to everyone, but they actually make things
more difficult for people from particular cultural or ethnic backgrounds.

According to internet so many causes of racism are

 Children get prejudice from their parents and peer groups.

Racism is learned. We are not born with it.
 Ignorance and Fear: People fear things they do not know much
about, e.g. coming into contact with people who have different
customs, language or appearance, they might express their
anxiety through racism.
 Poverty and unemployment: Racism can form in areas of poverty
or unemployment. People look for someone to blame: “Pakistanis
are buying our corner shops, foreigners scrounge our benefits!”

Whilst racism is partly a result of fear and ignorance, the origins of

racism are to be found in history. Slavery was not an invention of the
middle ages it had existed for more than a thousand years – but it
started to become a more organised trade towards the end of the
fourteenth century, when the Europeans began to take people from
Africa against their will.

In this report we are going to talk about racism, the history of the
racism in the United States, people who defended racism in the United
States. We watch the movie “The Help” in that movie we can notice the
racism and the discrimination for leather color.
 History of the racism in the United States

One of the principles of racism was to be based on it to facilitate and

legalize slavery. Slavery in the United States began with black African
slaves and people of African descent, and occasionally with
Amerindians. A Virginia law of 1705 established that slavery would apply
to those people from non-Christian peoples. The majority of the slaves
were black and in the hands of the whites, although some Native
Americans and free blacks also had slaves. Slavery is prohibited in the
United States in 1865 after the Civil War through the Thirteenth
Amendment.
Native Americans are recognized by this law as citizens of the union and
can vote as of the year 1924. Segregation or racial separation is the
separation of spaces, services and laws for people according to their
offspring. It was practiced in many parts of the planet until the middle of
the 20th century.
Racism in the United States has been widespread since the colonial era.
Legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights were given to white
Americans but denied to all other races. European Americans were
granted exclusive privileges in matters of education, immigration, voting
rights, citizenship, land acquisition, and criminal procedure over periods
of time extending from the 17th century to the 1960s. However, non-
protestant immigrants from Europe (particularly English people, poles,
and Italians) suffered xenophobic exclusion and other form of ethnicity-
based discrimination in American society, were vilified as racially inferior
and were not considered fully white. In addition, Middle Eastern
American groups like Jews and Arabs have faced continuous
discrimination in the United States, and as a result, some people
belonging to these groups do not identify as white. East and South
Asians have similarly faced racism in America.
People who defended the Racism in the USA

Over the years, there have been many people who have wanted to end
racism, people who have left their mark not only in the United States, but
throughout the world, being an example for all generations of the future,
an example that peace can exist and we can all live as brothers.
Whe can see the most important ones:
1. NELSON MANDELA (1918-2013)
He led the anti-apartheid movements.
What is the Apartheid movement?
Political and social system developed in the Republic of South Africa and
other South African states, based on the segregation or separation of
the population for racial or ethnic reasons and the discriminatory
treatment of the black population
After a long struggle and 27 years in prison, he headed the first
government that put an end to the racist regime. During his tenure he
devoted himself to dismantling the social and political structure of
Apartheid through the fight against institutionalized racism and the
promotion of social reconciliation.
In 1999 he fulfilled his presidential mandate and retired from the political
arena to devote himself to different social and humanitarian activities, in
addition to fighting the phenomenon of the AIDS pandemic, through his
Nelson Mandela Foundation.
2. MARTIN LUTHER KING (1929-1968)
He was an American pastor of the Baptist church who developed a
crucial task in the United States at the head of the civil rights movement
for African Americans.
Inspired by Gandhi, he mobilized, in a non-violent way, a growing portion
of the African-American community, fighting for fundamental issues such
as the recognition of the right to vote and non-discrimination, aspects
that were arbitrarily denied to this population.
In the summer of 1963, a historic mobilization in Washington culminated
with approximately 250,000 demonstrators in the March for Work and
Freedom. His speech 'I have a dream', pronounced in this massive event
is one of the most remembered by Americans. He was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

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ANNA FRANK (1929-1945)
It was a Jewish girl who, during the Second World War, had to hide with
her family and four others to escape one of the greatest persecutions of
the Nazis against the Jews.
The book edition of his diary left a record of his almost two and a half
years hidden in the back of a building in Amsterdam. On the morning of
August 4, 1944, his family is captured and each of them is sent to a
German concentration camp.
His father Otto was the only survivor of the war. In 1947 Otto published
the newspaper under the title “The house behind” (in Dutch, Het
Achterhuis).
4.ANTÉNOR FIRMIN (1850-1911)
He was an anthropologist, journalist and Haitian politician known mainly
for his book De l'Égalité des Races Humaines where he defends the
equality of human races. This was published as a response to the
famous book 'Essay on the Inequality of Human Races' by the French
philosopher Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, considered the initial work of
racist thought.
Gobineau held the superiority of the "Aryan race" over the "black race"
and the people with darker skin. This thought was shared in general by
the European culture of the time. Firmin challenges this idea by stating
that "all men have the same qualities and faults, without distinction of
color or anatomical forms, races are the same"
5. LOUIS ARMSTRONG (1913-1971)
He was a trumpeter and American jazz singer, one of the most
innovative voices of his genre. He transformed dance music jazz into an
expression of popular art.
Despite being strongly criticized for his timid stance against racist
discourse in the United States, he contributed financially to the Martin
Luther King Jr. movement and criticized the government's actions
against conflicts of racial discrimination several times.
6.JESSE OWENS (1913-1980)
He shone in the racist atmosphere of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, winning
four gold medals. Hitler used the games to show the world a resurgent
Nazi Germany and the superiority of the "Aryan race".
Despite being acclaimed by 110,000 people at the Olympic Stadium in
Berlin, the then US president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, refused to
meet Owens in the White House. He feared that paying tribute to an
African-American would make him lose votes in the southern (openly
racial) states in his campaign for re-election.
THE HELP?
It is the year 1962 and the city of Jackson, Mississippi, receives the
young Skeeter after she was absent for some years to finish her studies
at the university. It seems that everyone has plans for the life of the girl,
which ironically are very different from her dream: to work and to become
a writer one day. Her daily life is also particular because, unlike her
friends, she is not married but remains single, something that worries
her mother more and more.
In parallel, the writer introduces Aibileen, a woman who works at the
home of one of Skeeter's friends. She is shown as a strong and
struggling woman, who has raised children throughout her life and who
has a special weakness for the girl in the house where she is working at
the moment. Her unconditional friend is Minny, who also works in homes
in the city of Jackson and brings spicy seasoning to the story because
of her overwhelming and impulsive personality, which undoubtedly make
her a special character.
While the book focuses on telling the story from the perspective of these
three characters, the film is developed from the same angle and is
faithful to the story of the story in terms of characters and details. In
relation to the plot, both Skeeter and Aibileen and Minny will join from
the project of creating a book that can reflect the situation that was lived
at that time from an angle until then little known.

Bibliography

 https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/whatisrac
ism.pdf

 http://www.globalissues.org/article/165/racism

 http://theredcard.ie/racism-a-brief-history/

 https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/race-and-
racism

 http://www.rsrevision.com/GCSE/christian_perspectives/prej
udice/racism/introduction.htm

 https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-help/themes/racism
Conclusion

In conclusion racism have a lot to do with societies. Racial

discrimination has been a problem in America over a long period of
time. Racial discrimination negatively impacts a person by causing
emotional and psychological damage.

According to internet racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities

can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that
some racial groups are superior to others. Racism has been used as
powerful weapons encouraging fear of others in times of conflict and
war.

We had a lot of people who wanted to stop racism and people who didn’t
want that. In the world we have six importants examples of people who
mada changes about this, NELSON MANDELA (1918-2013), MARTIN
LUTHER KING (1929-1968), ANNA FRANK (1929-1945), ANTÉNOR
FIRMIN (1850-1911), LOUIS ARMSTRONG (1913-1971) and 6.JESSE
OWENS (1913-1980).

We think that racism should be stopped because no race is superior to

any other race. All races have equal opportunities as other races.
Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our
schools workforces, and anywhere else where social lives are
occurring. It is obvious that racism is bad as it was many decades ago
but it sure has not gone away.