REL 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neurosurgery, African Diaspora, White Privilege
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Racialized identity: a way people try to manage you (kill you, subordinate you) White privilege label comes with a set of privileges, that those who aren"t labelled white don"t have those labelled as different are seen as [ other : us (right, privileged, civilized) vs. We enter the world and just inherent this, must find a way to deconstruct this divide. Labelled as soon as we come into the world. Problematize (not normal or natural) vs. deconstruction (resist labels) Race is a social-relational category defined by socially selected real or imagined physical. A way to put people into specific categories. Before you see person as person, you see them as being part of a group, a sign of signi- fication or a racialization (further implications; ex. Jamaican, angry, sports, etc. or idea that black man can"t be a professor at all) Cognitive dissonance: what i imagine does not correspond to what you"re seeing in reality.
