Ella W. Race

        Hello everyone. In this short reading, something that continued to occur was prejudice and killings and somewhat genocide. It occurred to me that throughout this section one idea constantly crossed my mind: history will repeat itself until humanity can learn from their mistakes. It made me think of the quote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” from George Santayana, a Spanish philosopher.         Throughout Aronson’s whole book, you can see history repeating itself. The most prominent example is the hatred and prejudice towards Jews. In the early chapters, Aronson talks about how in Roman society Jews were thought of as evil or people needed to be purged. This belief seemed to die down as time continued and Judaism became popular. However, in the 1940s the Holocaust occurred. Adolf Hitler killed millions of Jews, spreading his hatred for them. As many history books claim that many were appalled by the mass kil...

       Hello, me here, and welcome back to the weekly grind.        In the 3rd reading, there is much talk about eugenics, the influence of music, and race. If eugenics is the concept that believes humans should specifically breed with other humans to create a specific race. Now, if this seems familiar to you it may be because this is what humans do to pets, farm animals, and other assortments of animals. This concept, evidently, led to talk about the Holocaust and other “purges” of people.        Along with this, came the idea of creating humans to perfection as the creator pleases. "With careful, ruthless management the pure stock could be preserved, and inferior races contained, controlled, or extinguished" (181, Aronson). This reminded me heavily of how scientists have begun to study how much of a child's DNA can be controlled. As ten or so years ago, it was known that sc...

        Hello everyone! Now that we know what Aronson's main argument is I think we can move on to other things, more specifically his style, something I lack- at least fashion-wise. However, we are going to be discussing a different type of style: rhetorical style.         Throughout both the first reading and second reading Aronson uses current events, at the beginning of almost all of the chapters, to relate events of the given topic of the chapter to an event that happens today. One of the examples that helped me understand what was in the chapter to come is the excerpt at the beginning of Chapter 11:         "Jamal's father is a manager for a company with branches all over the country. Every two years or so the family moves from one nice neighborhood in a suburb near a big city to another. Jamal knows he has to watch it. Each school has its own style, its own slang. If he comes in the first day of high s...

        Hello, and welcome to my blog. Let's dive right in! At first, when I picked up Race  by Marc Aronson I did not expect to be reading about histories of religion; however, later on, throughout the first chapter, it became clear to me that Aronson was using the history of religion to display the development of race over time. This was because Aronson believes that race and racism began around the time of the Greeks, rather than when most people think in the 1600s-1700s due to white settlers enslaving African Americans. He argues that race has always been present, it has just changed the way it presents itself over time.         In the introduction, Aronson talks about a personal experience and others' experiences with racism. He uses the experiences to reach the conclusion that race is how humans organize themselves and others into categories, based on four notions: physical appearance matters, the differences of our bodies ...