SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Heteronormativity, White Privilege

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Julie Dowsett

Document Summary

Thinking about gender and race in socio-legal studies (finishing: the workings of oppression and privilege. e american civil rights-era quote: white is a flesh colored band aid. White privilege means that white is seen as normal, neutral and universal. Others are seen as abnormal or exceptional or specific in particular. Means whiteness can stand in for normal just as male prvilage means that male can stand in for normal . Mythical norm by perry: what is normal : white, male, straight, Why does law treat male, white, straight treat as normal: bc that"s society. g the mythical norm teams are named either after aboriginals or animals ex fighting whites: changed names from fighting reds to whites: . h clip from babakiueria social construction of normal, people labeled outside of normal become problems that the gov"t needs to fix poking fun at the way the australian gov"t wants to manage the lives of aboriginals.