SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Race Theory, Critical Legal Studies, Africana Studies
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African americans are born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this. Groups can equally share in central cultural values while still preserving differences. New group adopts dominant cultural values and norms. Ideologies of assimilation and color-blindness help perpetuate inequality ( white dominance) rather than eliminate it (fitzgerald 2014: 93) The ordinariness of racism in u. s. society. Laws assumed to be justified, racially neutral. Colonialism: process through which one country dominates another. By stripping it of its human and economic resources. Colonialism can take place within one country. Vis- -vis dominant racial groups establishing systems of oppression and exploitation of subordinated racial groups. Asian americans fall between (indentured chinese laborers, filipinos w/u. s. colonization of philippines, vietnam as war refugees) Racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed over time. Characteristics of race create myths and stereotypes. Stereotypes impose deterministic characteristics differing skin colors are simply our bodies" adaptation to varied climates and levels of uv exposure.
