SOCIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Color Blindness
16 Jun 2018
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Sociology 101
lecture 17
- Whiteness
- system that socially, economically, and ideologically benefits European
descendants over non-white
- whiteness is both system and identity
- important to distinguish b/w these two
- can be white person and fight against whiteness as system (beneficiary
vs signatory)
- Racial domination
- political, social and economic power, as wells as symbolic power to
classify one group as normal and other groups as abnormal
Color blindness reading
p. 206
- ignores racial inequality
- How do We Combat Racial Inequality
- remember the moving hallway
- opposite of color-blindness is honesty about true nature of racial inequality (anti-
racism)
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