Appiah And Toure Summary

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Chappelle, Appiah and Toure’
Appiah and Toure’ both views are somewhat connected. In their work they mention things about the irony of how many races are today and also include postmodernism. In the work of Appiah he talks about how once people are given racial labels they are somewhat stuck to believe that they should act according to the labels they are given. According to Appiah “Once the racial label is applied to people, ideas about what it refers to, ideas that may be much less consensual than the application of the label, come to have their social effects. But they have not only social effects, but psychological ones as well; and they shape the ways people conceive of themselves and their projects. In particular, the label can operate to shape what I want to call ‘identification’: the process through which an individual intentionally shapes her projects including her plans for her own life and her conception of the good-by reference to available labels, available identities.”(44) Toure’ believes that people can break away from their labels and become something better, and that’s where black irony comes from. …show more content…

In the video Dave Chappelle views of African Americans where the same views of a racist white male. Chappell video showed a example of black irony when he was playing a black racist man no one expected a black man to be racist to his own race, also in reality as while because no one during these time would ever expect someone to come up an idea to shame African Americans like he did in this skit. Also in the skit he showed how people perform according to their label or role, on the show he showed how people act according to their roles by showing when he was white he thought he was better than black people and thought he was so smart, but when he found out he was black all of that

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