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Why Gender Equality is good for everyone. 

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Why Gender Equality is good for everyone. 

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Gender Equality is a fundamental idea and principle that gives everybody equal rights and ability to do what they want in their life. This idea however has not alway been the way that it is today. For many years men were thought to be the dominant gender and for that matter women didn't have very many opportunities. Breaking out of this social boundary and creating these equal rights between genders is a very was a very important time for women all over the world. Janie had to overcome not only being a women but also being a women of color. Her rights were extremely limited and she had to fight for everything that she got. In today's day in age women have the same rights as men and women of color are embraced as normal individuals. These ideas that were around for hundreds of years are now seen to be completely unreasonably. Growing up in this day in age I was not exposed to a time that women didn't have rights and this is definitely harder for me to understand, but overall the idea that gender plays a role on your rights completely unreasonable.

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Why Girls and oys should play sports together. 

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Why Girls and oys should play sports together. 

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Coed teams has been a controversial topic in the U.S for many years. In today's life there is seems to be more of a push for unisex teams. The push for Coed teams has been pushed for years and years. The push for a larger source of Coed teams can stem from different communities all over the U.S. It is now being seen that areas of you U.S such as the south are pushing agents this cause and trying to stick with more traditional ideas of sports, such as separated teams by gender. Other people like John Brenkus are pushing against this idea and wanting things to change. This idea reminds me of “ Their eyes were watching god”, and how Janie was fighting against the stigmas of “ Normal Female Traditions.” She learned how to shoot a gun and fish which can be seen as a symbol of rising up agents these other sexist ideas. In my opinion I think that Females should be given the same opportunities to play sports as men and vise versa. I think that girls should be exposed to football and boys should be able to participate in field hockey.

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John Brenkus: Why girls and boys should play sports together

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In the course of a career studying the limits of athletic performance, John Brenkus kept encountering one persistent myth: that physical strength is the best measure of success. In this passionate talk, he takes on an insidious effect of that myth, the idea that boys shouldn't compete with girls.

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Reaching out with both hands: gender activist Gary Barker sees a generation of young men wanting to break out of cycles of violence

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Reaching out with both hands: gender activist Gary Barker sees a generation of young men wanting to break out of cycles of violence

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Violence between genders is a serious problem in the U.S and around the world. Every day Men, Women, and children get abused and injured in domestic violence. “Gary Barker pioneered ground-breaking work with young people, in particular disaffected young men, to promote gender equality and prevent violence.” This same idea was seen by janie in the story. She was abused by her husbands and physically hit by them. This violence was not uncommon for the time that it was written. I think that there are some serious steps that can be made against violence between the genders but there are also some acts that have been done to reduce how many of these violent abusees that keep happening. My overall view of this article was that it was very educational and had good insight on the topics. I think that it shined a light into the fact that these violent acts are only being committed by men showing that male dominance is something that needs to change. It is seen that there need to be steps and ideas that need to change and also that people should not be quite about abuse. Janie finally found her voice and started to stand up against violence and that was the turning point to her happiness.

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The progression of equality seems to be making small steps forward and small steps backward at the same time. There seems to be this idea that gender and race equality is fixed and there is no problems about it. In my eyes I feel like it is the exact opposite. I can see that there have been some steps forward towards the ideas of equality but there also is a title wave of ignorance around the subject that is blocking the new generations ideas of equality. The area that you grow up in around the world can play a large role in your ideas of what we see as gender and equality. Some people live in small populated cities and aren't affected but others have to live a life of being repressed and turned down by race and gender. I believe that the new generation doesn't have the same skills as the older generations to see this repression and can't pick it out from everyday life. Over all these ideas can be seen on social media and on new technology today. We can just swipe away from these ideas and never have to think about them again unlike the older generations because they couldn't escape these ideas that we are being shown and quickly pushed away. Overall  I believe that gender and race acceptance has be halted to this new generation and not embraced and fixed. There is still a lot of work that has to be done to get where we are headed and the only way that this can be seen is if people of these new generation open their eyes and start to fix the damage that we have created.

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Chimamanda Adichie was influenced by others as a child and got to see how popular white culture is shaping minds of children and adults across the world. She shows the ways that literature has grabbed the ways of white communities and pushed back all the other cultures in literature. I find it interesting coming from a white background to finally get to see what others get to. This idea that children are only being shown a few lives and the way they live all over the world is an eye opening idea. This ties in with white privilege by showing that not only does it happen internationally across the world but it is even being established in ways that people don't mean to embrace it. There seems to be a strong connection between people all over the world due to the things that they are exposed to as children. I believe that it is even more apparent now than ever due to social media and the internet at the tips of our fingers. People can’t seem to escape it as individuals. People from all walks of life are growing up in very different and culturally diverse places all over the world but without even knowing it are exposing themselves to a social norm that is based on white middle class families. It is a mind bending idea to have children growing up realizing these white communities when they have a beautifully community right in front of them that they should be embracing. Overall Chimamanda Adichie’s story tied the links of white privilege and how other communities globally are being exposed and embracing them to be a social norm.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

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Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood 

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The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood 

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There are so many different layers of racism in modern American and around to world. Some of the problems can be seen vividly but others are below the surface and people do recognize them as a problem in modern society. In Their Eyes were Watching God we can see these problems were evident and can be contextualized in writing. This isn't as easy in real life. There seems to be a strong bridge between things that people don't understand and how they treat things. Many people don’t understand lifestyles around the US and the world. Things that people don’t understand, people are quick to judge and determine if they trust and or like something. This idea means that people are quick to judge and think about things in a certain way. There is this stigma that based on your race or culture then you have to fit into certain guidelines. This shows that people are trapped in a fixed mindset that makes its way down the generations. People need to open their minds and see differences in the world and embrace instead of judging.

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TNC focuses in on North Lawndale, a neighborhood in Chicago, to make his point. But it's a similar story across the country.

North Lawndale is an extreme portrait of the trends that ail black Chicago. Such is the magnitude of these ailments that it can be said that blacks and whites do not inhabit the same city. The average per capita income of Chicago's white neighborhoods is almost three times that of its black neighborhoods. When the Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson examined incarceration rates in Chicago in his 2012 book, Great American City, he found that a black neighborhood with one of the highest incarceration rates (West Garfield Park) had a rate more than 40 times as high as the white neighborhood with the highest rate (Clearing). "This is a staggering differential, even for community-level comparisons," Sampson writes. "A difference of kind, not degree." ...

Black people with upper-middle-class incomes do not generally live in upper-middle-class neighborhoods. Sharkey's research shows that black families making $100,000 typically live in the kinds of neighborhoods inhabited by white families making $30,000. "Blacks and whites inhabit such different neighborhoods," Sharkey writes, "that it is not possible to compare the economic outcomes of black and white children."

Even here in California, where sometimes we like to imagine maybe things were different.

A few years ago, I came across an academic project to take the old redlining maps and lay them over the cities as they are today in Google Maps. It was run by an interdisciplinary group out of the University of North Carolina. They created a site called T-RACES, or Testbed for for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces.

I stared and stared at the map of the East Bay because I could see the marks of this discrimination all over the city. My little neighborhood sits right next to a block of red, in a yellow strip, and near a swath of blue. It was an in-between zone, and it still feels that way. Go a few blocks west (downhill) and the neighborhoods are primarily black. Go a few blocks east (into the hills) and the neighborhoods are almost exclusively white.

T-RACES was meant to be a demonstration project, and it looks that way. The maps are difficult to navigate and just have a clunky feel. When I tweeted about them, a data artist named Josh Begley took it upon himself to recode the maps with new technology. And then-after Google broke the way he was doing it-he recoded the maps again for this post.

There are maps for the Bay, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno and Stockton. I've included Los Angeles here, too, but the rest are available at his site.

The point is: the racist policies TNC explores in Chicago were everywhere.

Here are the codes for the maps:

"Green areas are " hot spots"; they are not yet fully built up. In nearly all instances they are the new well planned sections of the city, and almost synonymous with the areas where good mortgage lenders with available funds are willing to make their maximum loans to be amortized over a 10-15-year period -- perhaps up to 75-80% of the appraisal. They are homogeneous; in demand as residential locations in "good time" or "bad"; hence on the upgrade".

"Blue areas, as a rule, are completely developed. They are like a 1935 automobile still good, but not what the people are buying today who can afford a new one. They are the neighborhoods where good mortgage lenders will have a tendency to hold loan commitments 10-15% under the limit."

"Yellow areas are characterized by age, obsolescence, and change of style; expiring restrictions or lack of them; infiltration of a lower grade population; the presence of influences which increase sales resistance such as inadequate transportation, insufficient utilities, perhaps heavy tax burdens, poor maintenance of homes, etc. "Jerry" built areas are included, as well as neighborhoods lacking homogeneity. Generally, these areas have reached the transition period. Good mortgage lenders are more conservative in the Yellow areas and hold loan commitments under the lending ratio for the Green and Blue areas.

"Red areas represent those neighborhoods in which the things that are now taking place in the Yellow neighborhoods, have already happened. They are characterized by detrimental influences in a pronounced degree, undesirable population or infiltration of it. Low percentage of home ownership, very poor maintenance and often vandalism prevail. Unstable incomes of the people and difficult collections are usually prevalent. The areas are broader than the so-called slum districts. Some mortgage lenders may refuse to make loans in these neighborhoods and other will lend only on a conservative basis."

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The Racist Housing Policy That Made Your Neighborhood

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TNC focuses in on North Lawndale, a neighborhood in Chicago, to make his point. But it's a similar story across the country. North Lawndale is an extreme portrait of the trends that ail black Chicago. Such is the magnitude of these ailments that it can be said that blacks and whites do not inhabit the same city.

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Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville

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Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville

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Daryl Davis said in his TED talk that ignorance fuels hatred. People people seem to be afraid of the unknown. This idea that people are scared of what they don't understand is an eye opening thing to hear. This thoughts in this talk really stuck with me as an individual. I really could see the ties that there are between the unknown and hatred. People don’t like change in there everyday lives. And I am starting to see that people who can overcome certain situations are the strongest type of people . This connects to the book Their Eyes were Watching God. Janie in the story overcame her struggles in life and did what she had to do to be successful. This is exactly the same with Daryl. His persistence and ability to overcome the struggles that people put against him show how strong he is. Anybody that can stand against a white supremacist as a black man and change there mind has a gift that not many people have. His bravery and distinct ability to face fears show how race and color can be a fight that can and will be overcome.

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White Privilege is seen to be a topic that is through away throughout the years and people think that it doesn't apply in todays society. We can see the effects that it has on individuals throughout the years in many different places. All over the U.S and other places across the country we get this sense of things never really fully changing to make all rights and privileges the same. I personally can see this in modern society and how it relates to modern culture that we live in. All these ties have a special connection whether it be first aid kits not caring colored bandages that match all skin tones or even grocery stores caring ethnic foods from other countries but not bringing through african american culture in foods. There is a seemingly common reoccurrence between white privilege and common racial stigma. People changing the side of the street because they don't want to walk by a group of black males. These ideas tie together to form a link between our modern society and where we came from 100 years ago. Showing that the growth that he have made in the common eye, might not be as large as we believe it is. We get this synthetic sense of security that forms when it comes to these topics but there is a clear tie between modern culture and these white privileges that are granted to us behind our backs.

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Gender Identity has been a controversial topic in many cultures across the world due to certain religions and ethnicities. People aren't as use to living with people that are transgender or bisexual which can cause discomfort. But that being said there is more tolerance and acceptance to this today than ever before. Growing up in this day in age is a blessing and a curse. It seems that these types of ideas are now a social norm. I feel that I am around people all the time that have different ideas and identify differently than the normal person. Gender identity plays a big role in Their Eyes were Watching God because it was what fueled Janie to be herself and fight back against the male dominant characters that were in the story It showed that she was just as important as they were and she would not stand for anything other that being treated as an equal. This ties into our everyday lives as indiviguals to show that others who think that they are better then us can be saying or actiong

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Brief

Gender identity is one's sense of one's own gender. It is the result of socialization, but it also has a biological basis.

Learning Objectives

Discuss the difference between biological and social construction of gender identity

Key Takeaways

Gender identity is typically perceived as binary - individuals are expected to exclusively identify either as male or female, and to have a gender identity that aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth. However, some individuals have gender identities that do not align with their assigned sex.

Individuals whose gender identity aligns with their assigned sex are said to be cisgender. Transgender individuals are those whose gender identity does not align with their assigned sex.

Gender identity discourse derives from medical, social, and psychological conceptions of gender. There is vigorous debate over biological versus environmental causes of the development of one's gender identity.

As gender identity disputes gain more social attention, new legal frontiers are opening on the basis that a male/female gender binary, as written into the law, discriminates against individuals whose existence is not acknowledged by the binary construct of gender.

Cultural variations in notions of gender indicate the socially constructed nature of gender identity.

Key Terms

Gender Binary - a view of gender whereby people are categorized exclusively as either male or female, often basing gender on their external genitalia.

Transgender - not identifying with culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female; having a gender identity that does not align with one's assigned sex; having a gender identity that aligns with elements of both male and female, with neither male nor female elements, or having some other gender identity.

Cisgender - identifying with or experiencing a gender the same as one's assigned sex, or that is affirmed by society, e.g. being both male-gendered and male-assigned.

Full Text

Gender identity is one's sense of being masculine, feminine, a combination of both, or neither. Gender identity is typically seen as a binary - individuals are expected to exclusively identify either as male or female. However, some individuals have a gender identity that does not fit the binary construction of gender. These individuals might have gender identities that are a third gender or a mix of masculine and feminine genders, or their gender identity may be that they have no gender at all. Gender identity is socially constructed, yet it still pertains to one's sense of self. Gender identity is not only about how one perceives one's own gender, but also about how one presents one's gender to the public, because one's gender identity helps individuals determine their gender expression.

Cisgender and Transgender

Individuals whose gender identity aligns with the gender they were assigned at birth are said to be cisgender. Transgender individuals are those whose gender identity does not align with their assigned gender. (Gender assigned at birth is assigned based on the infant's external genitalia, which is an incomplete measurement of a person's sex since it does not include internal organs, chromosomal structures, or hormonal interactions, all of which influence a person's sex.) Some transgender people require surgeries (called gender reassignment surgery) and hormone therapies in order to better match their gender identity to their socially perceived sex because, as humans are basically social animals, social acceptance is extremely important to our health. However, not all transgender people require physical changes to their bodies. Some might not need to undergo any changes at all, or they might need only some changes (such as undergoing hormone therapy, but not gender reassignment surgery). Recently, there has been growing recognition of people who are genderqueer. These are individuals whose gender identity does not match their assigned gender because their gender identity simply does not fit within the current social construction of gender at all. Their gender might be changeable, not static (this is called being genderfluid), or it is a third gender which is neither masculine or feminine, or they are both masculine and feminine, or they have no gender at all (this is called being agender).

Causes of Differences between Gender Identity and Assigned Gender

What causes individuals to sense a difference between their socially assigned gender and their gender identity? This question is hotly contested, with no clear answer. Some things, though, are certain: genetic regulation, hormone activity, and socialization all play roles in a person's gender identity and gender expression. Biologically, gender is a function of sex, meaning that the genetic regulation and hormone activities that determine our sex also influence our gender identity. Scientists have not yet determined the exact extent of that influence, but it is agreed that gender is primarily a biological function. Still, socialization does have a role in how a person interacts with their own gender identity, which can influence how they perceive and express their gender. When an individual's gender identity does not match their socially assigned gender, the socialization they receive will often indicate to the individual that there is something 'wrong' with their gender, which can impact their ability to understand and express their gender identity in socially accepted ways.

Gender Identities and Law

As gender identity disputes gain more social attention, new legal frontiers are opening on the basis that a male/female gender binary, as written into the law, discriminates against individuals whose gender identity is not acknowledged as real by the binary construct of gender. On college campuses, gender-restrictive dorm housing if facing opposition by individuals whose gender identity is neither 'man' nor 'woman,' but is genderqueer, genderfluid, third gender, or agender. Many public spaces and workplaces are instituting gender-neutral bathroom facilities. Gender identity has become a piece of international law as a branch of human rights doctrines. The Yogyakarta Principles, drafted by international legal scholars in 2006, provides a definition of gender identity in its preamble. In the Principles, "gender identity" refers to each person's deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the person's sense of the body and other expressions of gender.

Gender Identities across Cultures

Gender identities, and the social constructs of gender identity, vary across cultures. Though most cultures use a variation of the gender-as-binary construct, the malleability of that binary varies. In some Polynesian societies, fa'afafine are considered to be a third gender alongside male and female. Fa'afafine individuals are accepted as a natural gender and typically experience less social ostracism than transgender individuals in other cultures. They are assigned male at birth based on the appearance of their external genitalia, but their gender expression (how they dress and behave) aligns with the social norms Polynesians typically consider female. In the Indian subcontinent, a hijra is usually considered to be neither male nor female. The hijra are a third gender, although they do not enjoy the same acceptance and respect as cisgender individuals. These cultural variations in notions of gender indicate the socially constructed nature of gender identity.

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The image above exemplifies the subjective and personal understanding people have of their own gender identities.

Source: Boundless. "Gender Identity in Everyday Life." Sociology - Cochise College Boundless, 08 Aug. 2016. Retrieved 27 Feb. 2017 from https://www.boundless.com/users/493555/textbooks/sociology-cochise-college/gender-stratification-and-inequality-11/gender-and-socialization-86/gender-identity-in-everyday-life-497-10211/

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Gender identity is one's sense of one's own gender. It is the result of socialization, but it also has a biological basis. Discuss the difference between biological and social construction of gender identity Gender identity is typically perceived as binary - individuals are expected to exclusively identify either as male or female, and to have a gender identity that aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.

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This poem shows the voice of slaves back at this time. It gives insight into what they had to endure. I can see the connection between this and other articles. I think that the name of this poem has a strong role in the meaning. Putting the slaves under one roof makes them all into animals in a way. This idea dehumanized them and made them into property for these slave owners. The reason for this made it easier for them to use the slaves and not treat them as people. This ties back to the idea that people fear what they don’t understand. I am starting to understand how these people thought. They wanted to use these people but they couldn't without dehumanizing them. This caused the form of fear and then this spirals down into modern day racism. This chain of racial biased fear created what we know today and it can all be contrived from our ancestors, And today this struggle can be seen as moving in a everlasting circle.

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This week's poem is by Rita Dove. The House SlaveThe first horn lifts its arm over the dew-lit grassand in the slave quarters there is a rustling-children are bundled into aprons, cornbre...