Difference

“What does ‘difference’ when considering issues of race, class and gender really mean to society at large and potentially to various individuals within that society? What did you take away from this unit about difference that you may not have considered before?"

Difference is derived from the word 'different', which is defined as: not alike in character or quality; differing; dissimilar.  The numerous varying conflicts that strike America by cause of difference between races, classes, and gender, become more evident as we further explore as a class the common situations and factual information. We now live in a society based on difference, laid by the foundations set by  people with pre-conceived notions, and general speculations that are unwilling to search for the truth. For  example, there is a blanketing assumption mainly stressed by white folk that black is an inferior raced based on physical distinctions. Because of this difference between the white race and the black race, racial formations were created, which eluded to subjects such as 'The Jim Crow Laws', and many more discriminative acts. The definition of 'difference' has presently been obstructed and lost throughout the history of America, and the instances established because of this misconception. 
Society, now, lays upon the foundations of the dominating persons. Now factors, including the forced impoverishment of the black race, include power distinctions between women, and other alien races that are not purely American folk. 
This unit provided me with the insight that I was unaware of before. Of course it is on my radar that black people were always subjected to the over powerment of white people, but it was never clear to me the extent the world suffers because of racial, class, and gender difference.