SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White Supremacy, Circular Reasoning, Microsociology
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Definition: a statistic construction based on essentialism that define people across hardened or semi-hardened categories. These categories are formulated according to people"s bodies and define characteristics such as intelligence, aesthetics, values, and understandings of social phenomena: an imaginary understanding that has no biological validity. However, race continues to carry material and discursive effects. Racial classifications have been used to rationalize colonialism, slavery, genocide and ongoing inequities: racism is a fixture of canadian society. This does not mean that it must remain so: and unstable and decentered" complex of social meanings constantly being transformed by political struggle (pg. Racial categories are not stable and can change across time. Different groups can work to challenge racial formulations but may be hindered by the power of dominant rhetoric. Everyone is implicated in this project and is located in accordance to power relations. Prejudice: an attitude that judges his person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics (pg.
