{"id":789,"date":"2021-09-22T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T03:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=789"},"modified":"2021-09-22T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T03:05:00","slug":"race-alvin-mugaruar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/22\/race-alvin-mugaruar\/","title":{"rendered":"Race – Alvin Mugarura"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there was to be a race, there would only be one, the human race. The division of human beings into different races has been constructed by society itself based on legal, cultural and social aspects as stated in the reading. The concept of race has been passed along through multiple generations and this has had multiple effects ranging from racism to identity construction based on race. Racism and other negative elements like racial privilege that race carries along with it can be interpreted under a superiority complex lens with one race having a generalised idea of being better than others hence feeling the need to oppress them just because of their differences in skin color, hair texture and other variations that all human beings essentially share. A sense of belonging together with construction of identity based on racially formed cultures is evident in modern and past eras and is also another element of race. Media has had it\u2019s fair share of engraving the racial construct into society with explicit racist shows and movies as illustrated in the \u201cI am not your negro\u201d documentary. The construct of race at that time allowed racist movies and shows to be produced but due to the fight for racial justice along the years, the media has of course resorted to production of the anti-racist elements for example \u201cthe hate you give\u201d and many other movies discussing the negative elements that the \u201crace construct\u201d carries with it. Movies like \u201cthe black panther\u201d were thought to have an impact on the black community. Media productions have also embraced cultural diversity and inclusion so it is safe to say that the media has promoted the idea of race with both positive and negative impacts if critically analysed from ancient to modern times.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there was to be a race, there would only be one, the human race. The division of human beings into different races has been constructed by society itself based on legal, cultural and social aspects as stated in the reading. The concept of race has been passed along through multiple generations and this has had multiple effects ranging from… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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\/5392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}