“ Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, written by Audre Lorde, talks about how humans see differences in extreme opposites, where as everything is beautiful or ugly, good or bad, positive or negative, this or that…no in betweens. If we allow things such as in betweens, then the boundaries of what is interpreted as good and bad have now been crossed, and we can no longer define what is

It seems as though so many folks spend a huge chunk of their life making sure they are in the right place, with their “group”, however being in the “right group” is only an indiscrete way of holding onto that rope, saving them from their fears. Safety zones are comfortable, and that’s about it…they aren’t exciting, daring, adventurous, or educational, they are simply the easier way to live life with a lot less hassles to deal with.

Besides societies first priority of racial identification, the next extremely important factor is whether or not you meet the standards of what “should be.” While some people have programmed themselves to be what is expected, others try and “pass.” Passing is when you are technically one race, but try to get away with being another race because you slightly resemble one or the other. What’s interesting is someone who barely passes for white in the United States, doesn’t even come close for passing for black in Latino American societies.

“The effort must be made to understand race as an unstable and “decenterered” complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle.”(“Racial Formations”-Omi & Winant) . To agree you can judge one by the color of their skin is completely wrong, because it says nothing about who the person really is. Yet, sadly enough “our compass for navigating race relations depends on preconceived notions of what each specific racial group looks like.”(-Racial Formations – Omi & Winant)

Standards of what is and is not pretty vary amongst different cultures. From Zook’s, “Light Skinned Ded Naps”, she proves her point how in society’s present eyes, the beautiful African-American women, are those with light skinn

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