ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Peggy Mcintosh, Skin Whitening, White Privilege
10 Dec 2017
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Name calling or racial slurs) however most forms of racism are embedded (insidious, harder to identify, operate unknowingly to a lot of people, through institutions, educational, judicial system, others social structures in society. Real or authentically canadian, is the norm and all other people get racialized despite that we are taught t. Non-white people often asked where they are from, with the idea that they"re living in. Canada but not from here, that somehow less authentically canadian than someone a white canadian with an accent: white privilege a form of embedded racism wherein white people are granted greater power, prestige, and/or access to resources. In some societies, it is an outgrowth of colonialism eg. edmonds" brazil example in textbook; india skin whitening creams, associated with power, certain caste, prestige therefore having better opportunities in life. In some societies, white bodies: are at the top of the social hierarchy of appropriate citizenship and are afforded more privileges, eg.
