{"id":759,"date":"2021-09-21T21:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T01:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=759"},"modified":"2021-09-21T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T01:15:20","slug":"keyword-5-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/21\/keyword-5-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyword #5: Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Race is a construct that was created with the intention to subjugate and oppress cultural groups based on perceived physical differences. The Poetry Society notes that the word \u2018race\u2019 appears in popular French physician Fran\u00e7ois Bernier\u2019s 1684 essay \u2018A New Division of the Earth\u2019. This is the first time the word is used to categorize all humans into races using phenotypic characteristics. This jumpstarts a long history of medical malpractice and experimentation on the basis of race in which African-American people are perceived to be stronger than the average person yet mentally inferior. Keyword author Herman Grey suggests that race knowledge in media has both \u201cdesignated and denigrated\u201d people globally. In the instance of African-Americans, this marveling over supposed athletic prowess has carried into the twenty-first century. One example being Simone Biles who has faced numerous attacks against her status as the greatest gymnast of all time due to her race. In the 2013 World Championship, Italian gymnast Carlotta Ferlito &#8220;told [teammate Vanessa Ferrari] that next time we should also paint our skin black so then we can win, too\u201d. The highly publicized nature of these extremist views have widely contributed to its persistence. Significant racist medical ideologies and theories were largely accepted by reputable sources perpetuating stigmatization and violence. It\u2019s a lose-lose situation for African-Americans because if they excel at something whites can feel both threatened and jealous.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_760\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-760\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-760\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/1200x0-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/1200x0-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/1200x0-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/1200x0-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/1200x0-624x415.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/1200x0.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image taken from Houston Chronicle: Simone Biles (middle) and Carlotta Ferlito (Left)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Works Cited:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>After the formalities \u2013 the poetry society: Poems.<\/em> The Poetry Society Poems. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2021, from https:\/\/poems.poetrysociety.org.uk\/poems\/after-the-formalities\/.<\/p>\n<p>Press, A. (2013, October 9). <em>U.S. seeks explanation from Italy.<\/em> ESPN. Retrieved September 22, 2021, from https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/gymnastics\/story\/_\/id\/9797277\/italian-gymnast-carlotta-ferlito-apologizes-racist-comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race is a construct that was created with the intention to subjugate and oppress cultural groups based on perceived physical differences. The Poetry Society notes that the word \u2018race\u2019 appears in popular French physician Fran\u00e7ois Bernier\u2019s 1684 essay \u2018A New Division of the Earth\u2019. This is the first time the word is used to categorize all humans into races using&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/21\/keyword-5-race\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87686,785],"tags":[87721,785,193410],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords","category-race","tag-intersectionality","tag-race","tag-simone-biles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}