Minorities in America

RACISM IN SOCIOLOGY: MINORITIES IN AMERICA
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(16, November 2010)
Racism in Sociology: Minorities in America
The use of the term ‘The other`
After reading the articles the term ‘the other" is used to by the various authors to represent the minority groups of people living in America. This term is used to illustrate how the white community viewed as the ‘Americans` refer to other American people mostly the immigrants. "The other" as identified in the articles include: the African-Americans, Korean Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Chicanos, Irish, Jews, Indians among other groups who have migrated from parts of the world I to America for various reasons like slavery, for employment, in pursuit for better life, as laborers, as a result of colonization among other (Goldberg, 1990).
Also, the term ‘other" has been synonymously used by other immigrant communities to refer to their fellow immigrants of different racial race e.g. the African Americans refers to the Hispanics as the other meaning they are a different entity from them (Morison, 1992). It a social paradigm used to isolate and cluster individuals into races i.e. for racial identity purposes. It implies that the other entity is not one of their own.
Some of the illustrations from the articles are as follows:
Firstly, the term "the other" is referred to when McIntosh in his article says that he has come to appreciate the fact that his skin color gives him "privileges" that other with colored skins are not entitle to. For example he claims that he can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having co-workers on the job suspecting that he got it because of his race (Feagin Et al. 2001). This means that if some one else, not of their race takes a job from a colored employer he will be accused of using his race to acquire the job.
Another illustration where "the ot...