Race: Social Construct

Race as a Social Construct Race dominates our personal lives (192 Lopez). Race is ever a part of peoples lives and throughout the film Rabbit Proof Fence order by Phillip Noyce and the Critical Race surmise written by Ian Lopez, we are able to see in what ways it affects people. The film depicts a group of three one-half caste native Australian girls, who are interpreted from their family by a white man, Mr. Neville. The girls are taken to be trained as servants and also so they bed assimilate to the White culture.The article explains how dry wash can be mistaken to be a biological difference, but how it actually is a social construct created by auberge. Throughout their works, Lopez and Noyce portray that black market is non discoverd by biological factors, but rather by society creating social constructs. The Aborigines uneasiness towards whites because of how the whites treat and degrade them for their physical attributes exemplifies how race is a social construct. In t he movie, the half caste kids were nervous of being taken and never being able to see their mothers again.The half castes were taken to their new home where they were checked for struggle color and the fairer ones who are cleverer to see who can be freed to leave and energise a good education (Noyce). The whites were the ones who were free and had many more opportunities than the Aborigines did because of the color of their skin hence, Their race in the end determined whether they were free or enslaved (192 Lopez). Their freedom was controlled by the whites, who caused them and their familys pain because the whites position their race was superior.In Rabbit Proof Fence, the whites separate themselves and the Aborigines because of their skin color and make the mistake of determining race by biological differences. Although Mollys wit is able to fool Mr. Neville, Moodoo knows where the girls are, proving that race is created by society and not by genes. There are times when Moodoo senses the girls nearby, but seems to ignore it. When he is with the white man looking for the girls he says shes pretty clever that girl, she wants to go home (Noyce) because he wants to pretend he does not know where they are.He understands that it is unfair for these helpless people to be taken from their families out of force because he can relate since his daughter was taken as well. In the Critical Race Theory article, Lopez talks more or less how Black and White are social groups, not genetically distinct branches of humankind (193 Lopez). To Mr. Neville, whites are thought to be superior because of how they look compared to the Aborigines therefore, the fairer ones are more intelligent and clever. Molly and Moodoo prove Mr.Neville wrong when they trounce him, which verifies that race is a social construct. Race can be thought of as a capacious group of people loosely bound together by historically contingent, socially significant elements (193 Lopez) from their ancestry. auberge has categorized people based on many varied characteristics ranging from hair, complexion, and facial features (192 Lopez). We see this categorization in the movie when the whites put the half caste Aborigines in a special camp away from their families because of their skin color.The Critical Race Theory explains to us that race is a social construct created by society and Rabbit Proof Fence provides us with examples from the article. Race is constantly mistaken to be people with different physical attributes, when in reality a persons biology should not and does not determine which race he or she belongs to. Race is a social construct. Works Cited Delgado, Richard. Critical Race Theory The Cutting Edge. Philadelphia Temple UP, 1995. Rabbit-proof Fence. Dir. Phillip Noyce. Perf. Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, and Kenneth Charles Branagh. Miramax Films, 2002. DVD.