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14 pages in length. Drawing upon the work of David Goldberg's "Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning," one can readily argue that idea of race has always combined references to what is seen as natural (fixed) and social construct, suggesting that very divergent discourses have been implemented over time as a means by which to account for human diversity within the colonial context of European and non-European differences. Furthermore, the notion of race is not inherent to biology, but rather it is a social and cultural classification that has been erroneously attributed to biological implication. The writer discusses the concept of race from the Puritan colonization to present-day criminal justice system. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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race has always combined references to what is seen as natural (fixed) and social construct, suggesting that very divergent discourses have been implemented over time as a means by which
to account for human diversity within the colonial context of European and non-European differences. Furthermore, the notion of race is not inherent to biology, but rather it is a
social and cultural classification that has been erroneously attributed to biological implication. "The intertwining of personal and social identity is fashioned in terms of the historically prevailing conceptual
order. How we comprehend others and conceive our social relations and how we come thus dialectically to some sort of self-understanding are molded by concepts central to the dominant
sociodiscursive scheme... So the social (self-)conception, the identity of the subject, is mediated, if not quite cemented by the set of discursive practices and the values embedded in them" (Goldberg,
1993, p. 2). II. COLONIZATION William Cronons Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England and Carolyn Merchants
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England strive to address similar issues in mostly similar manners; however, one might readily argue that their individual styles of approach are
based in part upon significantly different gender perspectives. Like Merchant (1989), Cronon (1984) is careful to extend the same respect to both sides: Native Americans and European colonists.
It is both authors intentions to portray this trying historical period of race in as neutral a light as possible in order to allow the reader a truly spontaneous experience.
Essential to both accounts is the fact that each author attempts to illustrate the Puritan/Indian hostilities as having impacted more than the people involved; rather, their additional points include
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