Blog Post 5: What I Have Learned From Race
Hello reader, today is the last time I will be posting on this blog. To celebrate the final blog post, I wanted to share what I have learned through reading Aronson's book. In reading this book, one of the main questions that I wanted to answer was, is there a historical chain of events that you can follow to get to our idea of race? Of course, history builds on itself all the time, but that was not my main focus. I wanted to know, can you follow race from the beginning to right now without bouncing around to different places' unrelated events? Through reading Aronson's book Race, I can say that no, no one path led us to the idea of race now. One way that Aronson shows race is not a chain of events is the way that he bounced around with what defines race over time. To some people, race was social class, it was religion, it was bloodlines, and skin tones. A particular quote that showed the widespread ideas of race was when he wrote "You could paint a pi...
