origins of racism

will have to change his life once he has seen himself in the bodies of the people he has called different. He fears the hatred, anger, and vengeance of those he has hurt (Moraga 32). Loewenberg is similar in the way that they both mention how whites fear similarities with people of color, guilt of oppressing, and fear of retaliation. In the article Oppression, Marilyn Frye states how displacement and projection are used in real life. She mentions how minorities are perceived by the majority, and how those perceptions affect the way people of color are treated by whites. Loewenbergs argument is very attractive. I think it carries a lot of weight. It only takes common sense to see tpitalism, people of color have to struggle just to obtain an occupation, which is predominately held by whites. In A Different Mirror, Donald Takiki takes a very similar approach to that of Boggs. The both use historical context to explain racism and how we can rid our society of it. Boggs argument isnt coherent with any of the other articles. He doesnt address the problem in the same way as Allport and Loewenberg. The other two have few similarities which make one argument complement the other. I think that without in-groups and reference groups, people would have a need to displace negative aspects about people onto others. By assigning an out-group, people create an enemy that they can assign negative characteristics to. This takes the negative characteristics and actions off of themselves, so that they can feel better about themselves and their group. This is yet another correspondence between the two authors. Both believe that prejudice arises from the need of an individual to satisfy his personal needs, which may be security, ethnocentrism and/ or release of guilt. They also state that we need hate to keep ourselves in line. Hostility towards others seems to make our emotional and group ties stronger. They are ...