class, gender and race

According to Stuart, The Floating Signifier is a title that describes the essence of bigotry. Racial disparities fluctuate from time to time, hence the word "floating" (Hay, Hall & Grossberg, 2013). The title encourages readers to learn about bigotry and to be able to analyze ideas in different ways. Understanding bigotry necessitates diligent review and a dedication to investigating the numerous phenomena that it exhibits. Stuart's emphasized scientific structure is not academically inclined. He uses the title to expound on the various facets of quenching in order to better understand the matter. He notices that people struggle with the fact that they are conscious. For instance, people can only get motivated to fight racism and if they comprehend how it works. Stuart argues that racism is a philosophy that dictates that there is the natural connection between how people look regarding their hair, color and the way they think and act. He notes that "with how intelligent they are with whether they are good athletes or not, good dancers or not, good workers, civilized or not. Blacks, for example, are not as intelligent as the whites" (Hay, Hall & Grossberg, 2013). The argument resonates around the term floating signifier. In this case, he sheds lights on the numerous failed attempts to scientifically prove that indeed the statement is true. As a matter of fact after that, people need to pay attention to stories and culture about physical racial disparities. The topic of racism requires keen analysis of the discourses attached to it. The differences are signified by the way the society observed racism earlier. Physical aspects were historically explained using metaphors, antidotes, and jokes which had a different perspective compared to what the current society holds. However, over the years every physical aspect has been given a different meaning that is linked to racism. Thus, justifying the title since the subject seems to shift and slide always; it is never static (Hay, Hall & Grossberg, 2013).

Stuart notes, "I only want to remind you that the model being proposed here is closer to that of how a language works than of how our biology is or out physiologies work. That race is more like a language than it is the way in which we are biologically constituted". The comment builds on the term floating signifier, and it sheds more light on the system and concepts used in classifying culture and the essence of the practices. People are different, and some of them possess strange looks based on the skin tone. The race is dominant and rather ever-shifting over generations. The meaning of each genetic aspect changes over time as new ideas and concept overwhelms people. People new philosophies to ensure that the subject remains significance to the society just like language it is relational and not essential. Therefore, racism cannot be fixed but continues to subject to continuous redefinition and appropriation processes. Stuart uses the analogy that people adopt new ideas and drop the old meaning of language. He describes the process to be endlessly and continuously signified. Different culture, therefore, makes various observations, in the different time, in different phases of historical formation. There is always something left untied to language; an aspect that can be analyzed and various perspectives drawn from it. Both race and language have a margin that cannot be fixed. That means there is ever something left to say about them.

Mary Douglas notes that classification is vital in the society. Every culture has its way of creating a balance among classes. Therefore, people can relate to their counterparts as they compare themselves where they are. The classes result into disparity among the inferiors and superiors. It introduces ranks to the society. She calls the natural selection and classification as ‘matter out of place' (Hay, Hall & Grossberg, 2013). The society has a way of differentiating races. The whites and blacks always have something that distinguishes them regarding their abilities and capacities. The differences in such aspects result into unnecessary tensions depicted in racism. She relates the term to the feeling of belongingness. In this case, it is absurd for a black to become white because that is not where they ought to belong. Racism ensues where there are order restoration and maintenance. Those who don't fall into a class will always feel the pressure of misplacement. To be matter out of place signifies the fixed boundaries that human beings cannot surpass in their quench to civilize themselves.

The race is a unique philosophy that operates in its mechanism. Based on the videos, we can identify that race is like a movement. It uses various methods to fit different society, and it is subject to time. Our perceptions changes and as time goes by we tend to embrace new ways of thinking and understanding the subject. Race works on various aspects such as color, ethnicity, sex, mental capacities and abilities, talents and power. It works through contemporary ideologies and philosophies to influence our perception. It doesn't work as a single entity (color). It is modified and embedded in other aspects to make relevance and to justify its meaning to people.

The story is an analysis and summary of other stories regarding racism (Chang, 2009). It subjects other articles and scholars to psychoanalysis. The author revolves around the protest that white scholars dominate civil rights avenues leaving no space for minorities. The original pointer is the white scholars but to ensure that the story creates enough attention as one critic notes, "it enlightens on the grave charge of invidious racism on the part of respected legal scholars" the story had to focus on the minorities (Chang, 2009). The agenda isn’t profound because the author is establishing a foundation for a legal protest on civil rights. Using the same analogy, I would say that to understand the impact of Republicans policies people ought to analyze the minorities. This doesn’t mean the majority who belong to the white class should not be analyzed. An understanding of the non-whites defines a lot of the policies and the impact of ideologies to the whole society.



Stories are important to humanity. They are what connect people with their past and also provide a glimpse of the future. Through stories, people can feel what others can feel (Chang, 2009). It lessens the burden of going through the same process of pain and heartache. Stories enlighten us more and evoke people to view themselves regarding their position and ideologies in the societies. To the out-groups stories are like cautions as they explain what happens when various human tenets are not fulfilled. On the other hand, the in-groups are often catalyzed to feel shame, guilt, and fear by learning about others. The stories can also distract people from the tensions that are facilitated by racism.

Ideologies affect the rationale of a human being. It is the relationship between a domain that expresses consciousness and another one that is considered unconscious (social and economic aspects) (Chang, 2009). The values that we observe have a significant effect on our understanding. Ideologies instill a hierarchy of terms such that people have good and bad, real and false. Therefore, based on the beliefs people can discredit or construct pieces of information (Chang, 2009). In both cases, information is relevant. The reader influences the context and text thus intelligibility is subject to our ideologies.











Reference

Chang, R. S. (2009). Richard Delgado and the politics of citation. Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Poly, 11, 28.

Hay, J., Hall, S., & Grossberg, L. (2013). Interview with Stuart Hall. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 10(1), 10-33.



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