AnnBibKalin

Fredrickson, George. "Historical Origins and Development of Racism." //Race the power of illusion//. © 2003 California Newsreel, Web. 22 Oct 2009. . The Historical Origins and Development of Racism was written by George Fredrickson. George Fredrickson was a highly regarded historian who wrote White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History Racism: A Short History. In this background on race that Fredrickson wrote, he talks about the evolution of race in the West during the Renaissance and Reformation which was around 1300 through the nineteenth century and how it has affected different types of people in different ways. I thought that this site was useful because in a few places it showed that is seemed as though some people thought that they were better than the African people just because of their skin color and that since they were so different than anything they had ever seen before they decided that they weren't like them and excluded them from human rights and treated them like property. There is not much bias in here because Fredrickson mostly just lays down the facts and it is up to the reader to decide how to interpret the facts.

 Pearson, Chris. "Concepts of Race." //Anthropology.net//. 6/30/08. wordpress, Web. 1 Nov 2009. .

On this website you will find that there is a lot of information on race. There are sections that talk about the different definitions of race are and what some people think race is. He also has a section that talks about how people created race for status rather than justification. Then at the end of Pearson's article he says that race is an idea which clearly shows that this website had a lot of bias. This article has a lot of bias because for example, he says, "I believe, no matter who you are looking at, you will make some sort of assumption or employ some sort of stereotype to that person." By saying that he shows us that he thinks that people just stereotype people all the time and some people disagree with that. I thought that this site was useful because a lot of the other sites I used did not have much bias in them, they were just saying facts and not really analyzing things or throwing in their own opinions. I think that Pearson's article was a good one also because I agreed with a lot of what he said like race just being an idea that people thought up for status.