Whitewashing Research Paper

This paper will explore whitewashing and how it has aided Europeans in continuing to hold on to the most favored position. For the purpose of this paper the term whitewashed will be used to describe a society that has been designed to have a preference to white people. Despite the fact that slavery and colonization had ended, we still live in a world where fewer white people are discriminated against than blacks. Many might ask the question how blacks are being discriminated against. Blacks have jobs and yes the president of the United States is even black. That may be true but from a cultural stand point, people of non-European origin are being belittled and being painted as inferior. This phenomenon is because of the Eurocentric world in

Throughout the 1500s the European powers set in motion a means of conquest and colonization. For example, the Spanish went into South and Central America. The Portuguese went into the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, and Brazil. The French went into North America and parts of Africa. The Dutch took over in Indonesia. The Belgians occupied the Congo. And of course, the sun never set on the British Empire this meant that there were parts of the Empire in all parts of the world, so there was never a time of day when the sun wasn’t shining on some part of the empire. By the time the sun set on one colony, it had risen on another. They had colonized a very large portion of the world and during the time of colonization they spread their Eurocentric way of thinking whether it be religion, politics, education, beauty

This paper will use various books, journals, and videos to highlight its effect on society. In his book Death of a Negro, Delridge Hunter a professor at Medgar Evers College from 1977-present ,and past director of COSEP Cornell University 1970-1977, gives a view point of the African American that few people have explored. His book covers everything from music to movements. This book is relevant to my topic in that according to him Europe was the place that was chosen to “make the distinction between equals.” Whereby, they occupy the dominant, most favored position, or as in chess, the White position in which it explains how the dominant group that dominates the most valued position has controlled and manipulated various aspects of our society. Moving forward to Michelle’s Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow Laws, Michelle Alexander A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, who now holds a joint appointment at the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University, Alexander's main hypothesis, from which the book gets its name, is that "mass incarceration is, symbolically, the New Jim Crow." . This is relevant to my topic in that even though we minorities have made tremendous contributions to this world we are still looked down upon and still considered to be inferior. In Michelle Alexander’s book