WMNST 105N Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Voting Rights Act Of 1965, White Supremacy, Centrism
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Rationalize unequal access to education, housing, social mobility, and political and economic power since the 18th century. Legislation has been put into place to criminalize race-based discrimination in public facilities and employment. Reclaim ethnic and racial identities and shift them from a position of weakness to one of strength, unity, and pride. Legitimate the systematic enslavement of african and indigenous native peoples by white, european, and european-american colonialists. Gender polarity and white centrism and race. Categorization of races by the census bureau requires that we fit ourselves into distinct and mutually exclusive racial categories. Hierarchy whereby the category of white is unmarked and the category of non-white is marked. Watching television is a form of ____ between whites and people of color that encourages whites to believe that little, if any, socio-economic difference exists now between races: In color-blind thinking, race is reduced to: A color-blind perspective insinuates that ____ are responsible for racial inequality:
