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The readings on theorizing race showed two different aspects that I would like to address. In David R. Roediger’s Whiteness and Race abstract, the author addresses the issue of different immigrants and how they fare compared to the whites when immigrating to America. The abstract uses the oppression of African Americans as a reference point for how other white ethnicities are treated. One specific race I wish to touch upon is the Irish. According to the reading, the Irish immigrants have been through some not to say the same kind of mistreatment as the African Americans but can be compared to some degree. Frederick Douglas was used in the reading to show how he felt toward the treatment of the Irish people, which was a mixture of sympathy for the immigrants as well as some kind of worrying that they would treat his brothers in kind the same way the American whites do as well. The abstract talks how the Irish upon seeing their level of whiteness being questioned, rush to form some sort of status for themselves.

The other aspect I would like to address relates back to what JESSICABODE said about the concept of the Communist Manifesto, with the white people being the bourgeois and African Americans being the proletariat. In Coates’ reading, he uses one African American, Clyde Ross to show how exactly the concept of the bourgeois and proletariat play into effect. Many African Americans wish to own properties but can’t have mortgage on their own so are therefore forced into contract with white contracters, who are basically the building’s original who bought the building at a cheap price and make the African Americans pay for more than what the original building is worth, leaving them at the hands of the white people to do what they wish and bathe in their newfound wealth. The White people would find any way possible to keep the African Americans from doing anything which displeases them and can be seen not through the