Gender & Race online
Class assignment:Social inequalities are reflected online, especially in issues of race and gender. As we study gender roles and social change, it is important to understand the agencies and organizations that work to either maintain the status quo or work to facilitate social change. Discuss issues related to the intersection of gender race and ethnicity on social media. (700-800-word assignment to be done in class)
Gender and Race Online
Undoubtedly this is true that social inequalities are reflected online, especially in the case of issues related to race and gender, as well as this continues with one’s ethnicity. Apparently, the American people, with the European following, always have the mentality to discriminate the black race people from society. The intersection of this is a common rule of the nation, for which Abraham Lincoln to Chief Seattle, along with King Martin Luther Junior, has established the theory of how to help the Black people to get independence from this segregation from the leading society. Despite all the slogans, social media has somewhat tried to control the discrimination between race gender, and of their ethnicity.
For example, black males are often pointed out more than white males committing the same crime. As observed from social media, most black boys and girls are projected to get discriminated against in school by teachers and institutions. This makes them, to be a dropout of school and often helps them to become possible criminals involved in gangs and illicit substance abuse. Irrespective of this, in the case of African American women, when they get a chance to be a part of the American workplace, they also face massive workplace discrimination, which makes them feel isolated. However, black women do not get the proper designation, yet they face severe physical and mental harassment because of their color. Thus, in due course, in order to remain intact with their job, they had to continue to work despite all the harassment that they faced. The intersectional theory is observed in social media that black females are more discriminated rather than males. They do not get any opportunity to make promotions. Therefore, to develop their household, in American society, females often opt to do two or more jobs to get money (Jones et al., 2009).
However, talking about gender, women are always discriminated against by the leading society, and if it is narrated about black women. Likewise, this society often accepts men as their representatives but faces backward when it comes to promoting a black man with the Islamic religion. Hence, with Islamic or Chinese ethnicity, both males and females do not get the opportunity to be an essential part of society or the workplace. As per social media, observance dilutes the primary face of inequalities, reflected on different social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and others. According to Evans et al. (2020), the First Amendment guarantees freedom to the civilians of the United States concerning one’s religion and respecting ethnicity. However, with intolerant behavior, the Chinese or Islamic culture still has to face discrimination. Moreover, women especially based on their racial grounds, are often discriminated against, and they even face huge difficulties in working in their workplace or staying in white neighborhoods. White Americans often reject to rent the African-American blacks, a myth often followed by the general public who does not believe in equality. However, based on social media, this has been seen that those black working women with better working performance are forced to remain at the bottom of the workplace as well as in society.
On the other hand, there is also no road safety for black women, and social media came up with the news that African American girl, of 14 years old, coming down from school, was kidnapped, raped brutally, and then murdered. When her parents wanted to report this to the police, the department kept her isolated from taking the report about the child, and to date, the parents are in want of justice for the brutal behavior of their child.
Social media, based on their intersectionality theorists, have argued that the identities based on race, gender, and ethnicity are based on the principle of “simultaneity” while maintaining the axe to correspond with the identities that are incorporated with social analyses. As a result, society remains isolated from accepting the Black Americans, who are regarded as the Native people of the land, and often think of them to ensure their position in society. However, many movies, series, and acts are projected on Facebook or YouTube so that people can accept the existence of black people, who were captivated by their land and had to surrender themselves into the hands of White Supremacy (Wong et al., 2021).
Based on the opinion of Hidalgo & Chen (2019), in order to get the blacks to be expected, Chris Ofili painted a controversial art and named it the Virgin Mary. He gave a look like an African mother with a massive body so that one could discriminate against Mother Mary, on the grounds of her race and her sex, of being a considerable mother. It was his question that people could accept her as a White mother, but accepting her as a black mother was difficult for society. However, the government should develop itself so that it can grant inspiration to release from this situation every time. Hence, because of this discrimination, the medical homes often rejected black women giving proper treatment, and 85% of the women had to give birth at home, which might cause the mother or the fetus dead. Moreover, Canadian reports have stated in this context that African American black women of Muslim ethnicity often reject entering most hospitals and have to die due to difficult health conditions. Social media is taking steps upward in order to resolve the issue related to discrimination based on race and gender, as well as continuing with the individual’s ethnicity, by educating the entire society to build up equality for “Humanity.”
References
Evans, A. B., Agergaard, S., Campbell, P. I., Hylton, K., & Lenneis, V. (2020). ‘Black Lives Matter:’sport, race and ethnicity in challenging times. European Journal for Sport and Society, 17(4), 289-300.
Hargittai, E. (2007). Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1).
Hidalgo, M. A., & Chen, D. (2019). Experiences of gender minority stress in cisgender parents of transgender/gender-expansive prepubertal children: A qualitative study. Journal of Family Issues, 40(7), 865-886.
Jones, S., Johnson-Yale, C., Millermaier, S., & Perez, F. S. (2009). US college students’ internet use: Race, gender and digital divides. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14, 244–264.
Jones, S., Johnson-Yale, C., Millermaier, S., & Perez, F. S. (2009). US college students’ internet use: Race, gender and digital divides. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14, 244–264.
Wong, B., Elmorally, R., Copsey-Blake, M., Highwood, E., & Singarayer, J. (2021). Is race still relevant? Student perceptions and experiences of racism in higher education. Cambridge Journal of Education, 51(3), 359–375.
