Racism in America

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This paper discusses the phenomenon of racism in the United States. The paper states that, while a variety of organizations worked to bring true equality for African-Americans, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) stands out as an excellent example of "Resource Mobilization Theory", or RMB. The paper examines the SNCC that began with college students who decided they could no longer tolerate segregation policies and began challenging the practice in a variety of ways. The paper describes the organization as a major factor in the fight for African-Americans to gain real social equity with whites.

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"The college students who founded SNCC were aware of the racial history of the United States as well as the rest of the world. Throughout much of modern history, those in power, typically Whites in western cultures, identified certain other groups as "races," and used this vie of "racial otherness" (Winant, 2000) to justify their feelings of superiority. Thus many viewed Jews and even Irish as separate races. Singling out African-Americans not only as a separate race but also as an inferior race was aided by the country's policy of allowing slave ownership and trade."

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