SOCY1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Project 25, White Privilege, Social Inequality
Week 2 SOCY
Race
Issues:
• diffiult to speak of rae ad should use ethiity
• do ot ofte thik of yourseles haig rae
• issues of ho has ad ho akes rae
Race:
• social construct and not a biological concept
• blurring boundaries and ideas such a nationality blend
• apply membership within a group and defines culture and not biological
• something that is essentially passed on
Race vs Ethnicity:
• applied by other and not self-imposed
• study how certain labels are applied and placed in groups with essentialized traits
• not a constant but changing
• racial labelling to be avoided
Racism and Post-Colonialism:
• race exists
• each has distinct genetic difference
• racial inequality is due to differences not social inequality
• idea of hite as urde – European expansion of the 19th century
• Half-devil and half-hild – Kipling (1899)
• Stereotyped by their race – seen almost wild
• Dove ad black woman to white woman
White Supremacy:
• Idea of white privilege
• Racial exploitation
• Politial forgig of differet soial groups, ultural idea that hite ody is the
oratie ie, episteologial hite is the supree idea, etaphysial
• Selling the idea of the white body – somatic
Institutional Racism:
• Notio of rae as a iologial oept disredited
• Adverse racism
• ‘ae as a soial ostrut otiues to ipat
• Presented as a choice of not being associated with such ideas of racism
• Practices and structures of marginalisation and exclusion
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Document Summary
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