Ebonics 3

Title: Ebonics 3
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1386 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)

Ebonics 3

This week’s reading about race questioned the common idea of what ‘race’ is. Most people would think of race as a physical, concrete identity stemming from ancestry. Superficial qualities, such as skin color, dominate the common views of race. Fields, however, throws out the idea of race being a concrete entity, and instead says that race is purely ideological. It is something brought about by social issues and concerns, and is entirely socially and …showed first 75 words of 1386 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1386 total…of black versus white. I don’t believe Fields would be a very big proponent of ebonics based on this very idea. As she thinks that race is socially-constructed, so are the ‘inherent’ differences between whites and blacks. I’m willing to bet that just like she said about race, she would also say that a language exclusive to those with dark skin is ‘'a notion that is profoundly - and in its very essence ideological’.

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