Race and Racism: Intersectionality and Discrimination

Race and Racism

‘Race’ and Racism – any respect related to module
The UN human rights experts group reject the support of UK government report into racism
and ethnic disparities within the country. In regard of this, the commission on race and ethnic
disparities was set up by the government after the black lives matter anti-racism protest erupted.
The human rights experts also said that in their report that dubious evidence tends to make
claims to rationalise white supremacy by considering the familiar arguments which they always
justify the racial hierarchy.
Racism has been raised from the concept of race as it the historical context that has suitable
benefits over the certain categories (Byrne and et. al., 2020). It is the social construction that
represent the form of classifications considering the skin colour, ethnic background, traditional
values and so on. This terms are undertaken as the curse that impact the conflicts, slavery, wars,
legal codes and many more. For example, the New Zealand massacre is considered as the
notorious example of hateful racism in west. Further, Australian terrorists has committed the
massacre in New Zealand at the mosque in which weapons like writings, symbols and so on
represent the extreme hatred of Australians against Muslims. Apart from this, race has been
classified on the grounds of sexuality, classes and gender that are discussed as:
Sexuality: It is related with sexual orientation in which one person chooses things as there
are several countries that does not provide legal protection to this factor and also undertake it as
illegal. An individual who is homosexual who is attracted towards the same sex is also neglected
and consider themselves socially unacceptable (Adebowale and Rao, 2020). They are also
deprived of the suitable fundamental rights that has been homosexual and also consider as the
taboo in several developed nations.
Gender: It is the biological factor of an individual that make them different in terms of
males and females (Gao and Sai, 2021). Presently, transgender is also given as the legal factor in
which the third factor comprising suitable features of both man and woman. For this, most of the
nation provide suitable significance to male in which the areas of male dominating. For this,
female is being neglected in several sectors of economy and transgender are not considered by
many organisations and the society.
Class: In this an individual is judged and categorised on the grounds of upper, middle and
lower class. It is undertaken as the suitable result of unequal distribution of income and low
employment rate within the country. Moreover, the influence is that people who belong to the