SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: White Supremacy, Discrimination Based On Skin Color, Bill Duke
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Socialization by mass media: gender, race, & beauty ideals. For final: demonstrate mastery of course material, concepts, readings, content etc & Use them to think critically (ie compare & contrast) Religions of white folks (europeans)--western ideological domination* Sensibility of the lighter your skin the better you were treated (mix race couples during times of slavery) Real tangible benefits to having lighter skin. Structure of slavery & colonizer brings power to whiteness. Dangerous to health (physical) & ideas (mental) Products ppl attracted to that might be effective to skin are heavily toxic. Having lighter skin reinforces the white is right ideology. Always connected to wealth & power (esp with colonization) Not ppl themselves; subordinating oneselves when willful spontaneous consent used to buy the products. How various groups relate with other groups. How ppl relate to each other within the same group. White colorism includes intra-group relations(why its diff from racism)
