SOC 656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peggy Mcintosh, Critical Race Theory, Institutional Racism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 656
• Professor: Janna Eggebeen

Document Summary

Tribes: ethnicity and race in dress and fashion. People see race differently based on physical criteria. Ethnic difference can be invisible to one group. Subjective criteria: many of us have a racial category that does not match our ethnic identity. Fewer in rights, privilege and power: stereotype, a label that reduces a person to a set of exaggerated and simplified traits, different from a type, one classification for all (reductive) Exist to draw attention to and fix the meaning of people who are different from us. Impact is always negative: prejudice, different from a stereotype. Talks about the negative feelings and attitudes that result from stereotypes. You can condemn a whole category on someone based on a couple of traits: discrimination, systemic racism, part of our institution and society, reproduced racism through society, critical race theory. Sees race as a social construction: racism is not a historical problem or individual problem but a social one, white privilege (peggy mcintosh, 1989)