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This 4 page paper briefly examines some the views that gender, race and class greatly influenced the development of slavery, and argues that racism is still present today. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that slavery is based entirely on race. Others, however, think there are other facets to the phenomenon that must be taken into account, including gender and class. This
paper briefly examines some of those alternative views, and argues that racism is still present today. Discussion In A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki writes that trying to understand race
relations by concentrating only on race isnt enough; class should also be taken into account (Takaki, 1993). The first thing that anyone who studies the sorry history of race
in America must admit is that American society is racist, has been racist for hundreds of years and still struggles with this legacy. Further, in order for one group
of people to oppress another (and still be able to live with themselves), they must convince themselves that the other group is dangerous, or somehow deserving of their enslavement; it
may simply be enough that they are different. This is the concept behind what is generally called "The Other"-the idea that someone can be maltreated, injured or even killed-because
he is different. We usually think of that difference as being based on race, but thats not always true. In America in the mid-1600s, both blacks and whites were
indentured servants; this in fact was much more common than slavery (Takaki, 1993). But over the decades of the mid-century, events occurred that led to the creation of a
society in which slavery was a vital part, based largely on class and race. Many English settlers came to Virginia as indentured servants; "they planned to complete their period
of indenture and become landowners" (Takaki, 1993, p. 62). But the availability of land and the profits to be made from tobacco fueled a "land boom and speculation," with
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