racial ideology

racial ideology

Racial Ideology
Though we are in the twenty-first century and the advancement in technology has vastly increased, the minds of many have not changed concerning the concept of race. Many of the ideas about race that circulate throughout society were created many years ago and have survived the test of time. During the time in which technology was nonexistent ideas traveled by word of mouth from one generation to the next. The innovation of technology has aided the spread of racial ideology. In today’s modern society: films, the news channels, fashion, religion, and even the education system have all been a target of racial manipulation. The manipulation in this case is the idea of race as an ideology that has been instilled in us from childhood and reinforced throughout life with the use of these different mediums.

The film industry has proven time after time the various incidents in which race has been emphasized in this society. Skin color has played a major factor in discrimination for many years and is displayed as such throughout many films such as, Corine Corine. Whoopi Goldberg plays the nanny of a white child in this film and both she and the child’s father fall in love with each other. The conflicts that they faced were all based on the color of her skin. It was unacceptable to associate with a colored person in that manner and people accused the father of corrupting his child by having a black nanny. When in fact as black slaves the women were forced to raise their masters’ children. Men of Honor is another film in which Cuba Jr. Gooding plays a young man in the Navy, his dream is to become a diver but is not allowed to fulfill the dream due to the fact that he is black. This example is similar to the point made by one of the characters in   Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, “If you wasn’t black and if you had some money and if they’d let you go to that aviation school, you could fly a plane” (20). The film as well as the novel show the importance...