CHAPTER+8+-+Race+Its+Social+Construction

What the book is try to get accross
====No matter how people look at race our society is constructed around it. Usually starting around theage of 3 to 4 children start to notice the difference in skin color. In the book, a teacher Joseph Simplicio, realizes that a prekindergarten class shows interest in skin color. Simplicio did the project with the M&M candies. This represents society being the bag, and the M&M's being the people. The bag is going to have multiple colors of the candy but in the end all the candy is still chocolate just with a different coating on the outside. "You cant judge a book by its cover" is the best way to describe this chapter in a nutshell. You can not take the color of someone's skin and base their beliefs or values off of that. There is no way of telling about the way someone is until you have met them, talked to them, and listen to them.==== ====In the outdoor retail store that I work with the CEO came in and talked to the employee's at our store, not for any particular reason, simply to talk about a recent article that he just read along the lines of don't judge a book by its cover. He starts it by talking about how a motorcycle biker walks into a shop with the intent to purchase all the essentials for a camping trip, but because the biker walks in with the bandana on his head, the black leather jacket, and the big leather boots on. No one really pays him any mind because he does not fit the stereo typical customer, need less to say the biker approached the employees and told him how he felt so afterwards he left, and the employees were left feeling dumb-founded. This just shows how todays s ociety is build-up. ====

How this can be changed in the class room
====In the classroom the M&M project, is the best way to get the point across, it allows students to see that color of the skin does not tell who a person is, it just simply is there pigment. This is what needs to be taught at a young age, because a young mind is easier to manipulate rather then someone who has set ideas. If teachers can show how color has no importance at the age then that is the start to getting race out of the minds of everyone. ====