PSYC 363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aversive Racism, White Supremacy, Racialization
12 Nov 2018
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We often think of racism in simplistic terms. Racism: the explicit belief that other races are inferior (eg white supremacy) Old vs new racism: difference races naturally dislike each other (hopkins, reicher, & levine, 1997) Offensive racism: organized to create a racial hierarchy. Supremacist racism, old-fashioned racism, explicit racism (wg. Defensive racism: organized to maintain a racial hierarchy. Racism is fundamentally about power and inequality. Much social psychology takes race for granted as a social category (ie rarely interested in the process of racialization - how individuals come to be categorized as members of a racial category) Ignores the fact that racial categories are constructed, often defined by power/ dominant groups. The meaning of race as a social category is often contested, argued over, and deployed strategically in some contexts differently than in others. The origins of the idea of racism. Before and after (cid:3247)civilization(cid:3248) photos from carlisle.
