Essays on racism: ideas for topics

Racism is an issue, which has mainly sociological roots, but is reflected on human psychology as well. It is a set of views, which consider people of different ethnicity, culture, or skin color as unequal. The racial characteristics are grounds for this type of discrimination. It should be noted that racial prejudices can be expressed through social and legal attitudes. Undoubtedly, racism is a negative phenomenon that has to be abolished in the modern world.

Topics about racism.

• The concepts of race and racism.
• The main reasons for racial discrimination.
• Racism: social attitudes to people of different culture, ethnicity and skin color.
• The reasons why color of skin matters to us.
• Racism and shame.
• Racism among youth and children.
• The racial issues at school.
• How to restrict racism at the workplace.
• The concept of color-blind society.
• Mental health and racism.
• Prejudicing as deviation of mental health.

Topics about environmental racism.

• Global justice confronting issues in environmental racism.
• Environmental hazards.
• Myths about environmental racism in the United States.
• The concept of environmental racism.
• The factors triggering environmental racism.
• Distributive justice theories.
• The environment and justice regulations.
• Realities of environmental injustice in the United States of America.

Topics about anti-Semitism.

• The notion of anti-Semitism.
• The historical roots of anti-Semitism .
• Holocaust as one of the global acts of anti-Semitism.
• The reason for Jews unpopularity throughout the history.
• Zionism and its political expressions.
• The participant of Jews in Russian revolution: myth or reality?
• Theory of Aryan superiority and anti-Semitism.
• German national socialistic movement and anti-Semitism.
• Concentration camps as one of the mass biochemical weapon tools in the World War II.
• Anti-Semitism in the USSR.
• The Israeli politics and anti-Semitism.
• Conflicts and prejudices regarding Jews.
• How does the United States fight against anti-Semitism?
• Anti-Zionist’s laws in the US legislature.
• How do Jews perceive anti-Semitism?
• Political anti-Semitism in Austria.
• What are the roots of hatred? Anti-Semitism in Europe.
• Anti-Semites’ groups in the United States.
• Discourse of tolerance regarding anti-Semitism questions.

1. Topics about sports’ discrimination.

• Does color of skin matter in sports?
• Should gender separation take place in sports?
• Color line in American sport in the 20th century.
• Does sports discrimination have place in Europe nowadays?
• Equal coaching in sports.
• The importance of equal coaching request.
• The issue of baseball desegregation.
• Team games and racism.
• The concept of sports reverse discrimination.
• Discrimination and safety: how to protect yourself in sport and not to be accused of racism?
• Olympic gender and race justice.
• Sports in high school and problem of racial discrimination.
• Racial division in school baseball games: historical perspective.

Topics about xenophobia.

• The concept of xenophobia?
• Can xenophobia be considered as mental health deviation?
• Anti-immigrant’s movement as xenophobic acts.
• How does proper education help to avoid xenophobia?
• Human rights VS xenophobia.
• “Right wing” extremists in modern society.