Displacement has many different definitions. In class, we identified displacement as: geographical location/place, value systems, family ties, companions, style, possessions, class, religion, education, nationality, sexuality, language and even accents. The most controversial identifications of displacement is race.
Race is socially constructed. Usually when most people talk about race, they are talking about either black and white, Hispanic or American etc. Race does not allow for mixture, but in a sense creates a community. Race can be a good thing but also a bad thing.
In Othello race seems to be a big issue. Shakespeare always is hinting at the color or Othello. It is strange to think that back then people were talking about it and now people are still talking about it. There are many people in our world today that do not take race into account, but there are some people that are still stuck in their ways. I think race will always be an issue in our world, but I do not think it should effect the types of things we all do. Just because some people are a different race then ourselves does not mean that we should treat anyone differently, although some people still do. Have you ever been involved in a type of racial issue as either a minority or majority?
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Interesting questions. I wonder, too, about whether our categories of race, or the way we understand it, might shift. We can see with Othello, for instance, how a particular cultural moment and place determines what "difference" means.
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