Is race really an issue?

Does mass media have the ability to affect our perception on race? And if so, to what extent does it mold our thinking to fit the exact mold that it has set? What factors affect our perception of race and the definition of what a race should be? The essays in the book answer these questions, but I will also provide my own insight into answering these questions. What was most interesting about the essays …

…white race and white cultural agendas are not in the rising. Dyer finishes his argument by saying, “ Attention is sometimes paid to ‘white ethnicity’ but this always means an identity based on cultural origins such as British, Italian or Polish…Irish American, Catholic-American and so on.” He also quotes John Ibson as saying, “…being, say, Polish, Catholic, or Irish may not be as important to white Americans as some might wish. But being white is.”