SWP 132 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: White Privilege, White Supremacy, Structural Inequality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SWP 132
• Professor: Steven Solomon

Document Summary

Whiteness: the normalization of helping those who are marginalized: maintain the status quo of privileging white people, process that puts white people into a place of power and privilege. failing to recognize systemic and structural inequalities. In turn, coloured people are oppressed and put in powerless positions. Racialization: negative and different treatment of those who are non-white (coloured) If society fails to acknowledge racialization and inequalities, then people of power (whites) will continue to prevail without consequences. The strategies and processes of whiteness are: exnomination: language taken for granted as representing a certain understanding about white people. Eg: ethnicity of white vs all ethnic groups= groups: naturalization: white people= norm. : need colour ppl to inform us their values, opinions, and views. : also (cid:374)eed ser(cid:448)i(cid:272)e users to i(cid:374)for(cid:373) use differe(cid:374)t (cid:448)ie(cid:449)poi(cid:374)ts. This way the dominant group maintains their power: fix these structures. How? (this is what anti-oppression teaches)teach oppressed people about their oppression.