SOC 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Stokely Carmichael, Institutional Racism, White Supremacy
12 May 2018
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• Institutional & Interpersonal Racism:
➢ Q: Can POCs be racist?
o Institutional racism is the product of years of white supremacy.
▪ It’s designed to produce far-reaching benefits for white people.
▪ Carries on despite our personal attitudes.
▪ There is no such black institutional racism or reverse institutional
racism.
❖ Since there’s no centuries-old socially ingrained & normalized
system of domination designed by POCs that denied whites full
participation in rights, privileges, & seats of power of our society.
o Interpersonal racism takes place on ground level.
▪ Has to do w/ attitudes & habitual actions.
▪ Members of all racial groups can harbor negative attitudes toward
members of other groups.
o Institutional racism relies on the active and pervasive operation of
anti-black attitudes and practices — Stokely Carmichael & Charles
Hamilton, Black Power (1967).
▪ Institutions shape perpetrator through past practices of socialization.
▪ Institutions also authorize perpetrator’s racist actions in the present.
▪ Institutional & interpersonal racism interpenetrate & support one
another.
• Symbolic Violence:
➢ Process of POCs unknowingly accepting & supporting terms of their own
domination.
➢ Beverly Tatum: racial domination is like polluted air
o On some days, pollution is weighty & visible.
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Document Summary
Q: can pocs be racist: institutional racism is the product of years of white supremacy, carries on despite our personal attitudes. It"s designed to produce far-reaching benefits for white people: there is no such (cid:498)black institutional racism(cid:499) or (cid:498)reverse institutional racism(cid:499). Hamilton, black power (1967): (cid:498)institutional racism relies on the active and pervasive operation of anti-black attitudes and practices(cid:499) stokely carmichael & charles. Institutions also authorize perpetrator"s racist actions in the present. Institutions shape perpetrator through past practices of socialization. Institutional & interpersonal racism interpenetrate & support one another: symbolic violence: Process of pocs unknowingly accepting & supporting terms of their own domination. Beverly tatum: (cid:498)racial domination is like polluted air(cid:499: on some days, pollution is weighty & visible, on other days, it"s virtually invisible, (cid:498)but always, day in and day out, we are breathing it in. (cid:499) Internalized oppression/racism: pocs may internalize prejudice aimed at own racial group, unintentionally contributing to reproduction of racial domination.
