Assignment # 5 - The Whiteness Project The Whiteness Project The Whiteness project is an online interactive documentary produced by PBS. It features white people talking about what it means to be...

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The Whiteness Project: A Response
An online interactive documentary produced by PBS, “The Whiteness Project” should be
considered as a saga composed of different attitudes and approaches towards interpreting the
phenomenon known as racial identity. The documentary has dealt with different point of views
of different individuals who consider themselves whites, from the racial perspective, and the
documentary has put much emphasis on guiding the audience in the process of realizing how
ethnocentrism can often take the form of a menace, enshrouding rationalism with the clouds of
stereotyping. If on one end of the spectrum there are whites who speak about racial
amalgamation and assimilation, then on the other end of the spectrum there are whites who still
believe in some sort of racial superiority gained in lieu of biologically being born as whites. It is
an interesting documentary that has focused on the dilemmas that are still dominating the
American society that is still striving to be egalitarian in nature.
Learning from the experiences of people like Rob (Whiteness Project, n.d.) one is sure to
find that still the American society is cursed with the evil of discrimination. Rob has spoken his
mind and he has conveyed his confusion in terms of determining whether some specific job roles
are purely structured to utilize the talents and abilities of whites or such domination of white
population in the concerned job sectors is an embodiment of the process of discrimination that
does not allow people of color gaining access to professional and social opportunities (Whiteness
Project, n.d.). If on one hand, Rob’s concern indicates the presence of racial discrimination in the
white-dominated society of the United States, then, on the other hand, his concerns is a reflection
of the fact that still there are innumerable whites who are against racial segregation and
discrimination in the...