White Normativity

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Throughout life, people believe their identity comes from their own belief and culture. However, American History proves that one belief and one culture dominates the country we all call home. I want to discuss the main problem, white normativity into internalized stereotypes.
In order to understand white normativity, I need to address the meaning of white and the history of white people. A person is white if he or she has no black ancestry anywhere in family history (Zack, 2006). Therefore, the definition points out white purity. White purity resulted from nationalism and biologism becoming a moral, social and civic hereditary virtue (Zack, 2006).
In America, the white purity race became the wealthiest and prominent group. Whiteness proved to grow in the society through cultural ideas, public authority, and cultural norms. Leaving minorities not able to partake fully in the culture. Recently scholars have begun looking into the cultural formations of white racial identity under the framework of whiteness studies (Zack, 2006).
In the beginning, white race to most Europeans was seen as a religious and intellectual identity. Europeans heavily followed the works of the Bible and sought to live by the word. Europeans pursued the importance of a Christianity life that later became known as white (Zack, 2006). Christianity seen as the white way of life, they saw God and Jesus as white males. In addition, Europeans created The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge (Zack, 2006). With their intellect, they had also formed a slave trade.
I felt surprised and upset knowing Queen Elizabeth I had concerns about the consent of African slaves to captivity (Zack, 2006). I would think that if the queen had concern...

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