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A 7 page research paper that discusses two sources: a BBC video and Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins' Race, Class and Gender, An Anthology. The writer analyzes and comments upon the conclusions that can be drawn from this source material and what it relates about racism and its roots. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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provided the economic basis that resulted in the British Empire. Consideration of this video, along with the information provided by editors Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins in their
text Race, Class and Gender, An Anthology, indicates that racism has its root cause embedded in the ethnocentrism and myopic perspective that Europeans used to rationalize and justify slavery. Both
of these sources support the contention that racism is due to the lingering legacy of slavery. The Historical Background Race has been a
means for discerning a persons class and status in American society from virtually the countrys inception; however, the radical social distinctions between settlers with white skin versus those with black
skin did not become significant until following the establishment of slavery (Andersen and Collins 112). Similarly, Professor Emeritus James Walvin of the University of York indicates that British society did
not become racist until it became involved in the slave trade ("History"). Essentially, the arguments presented by Walvin in the BBC video indicates the need for inventing racism as a
justification for slavery after the slave trade proved itself to be essential for creating British wealth. At the onset of slavery, slave owners rationalized the enslavement of Africans based on
the perception that they were heathen, rather than on differences in skin color. However, as the institution became embedded in society, the focus shifted to considerations of racial difference.
Societal perspective over the ensuing decades has promoted this focus. For example, Dr. Joe A.D. Alie, Associated professor at the University of Sierra
Leone, describes how John Hawkins, a sixteenth century Englishman, is described in historical texts in exemplary terms, as someone who made a positive contribution to the creation of the British
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