ENGLISH 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: George Lipsitz
16 Apr 2017
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Part 1: 12 short answers answer 8. Starts by talking about a man who was complaining that white people can no longer get jobs but when she looked around she saw that the employer only hired white people. The structures that benefit him are invisible to him. Racism: is an all-encompassing system that works on multiple levels and results in an unequal distribution of privileges, resources and power b/w white people and people of colour overall. With whites as the beneficiaries of that distribution. There is a global reach of these powers. She is talking about white dominated societies. From the historical and systemic structures that enables white people to feel comfortable in the status quo. From what the american scholar george lipsitz has called the possessive investment in whiteness . From a sense of being entitled to having most of the jobs, most of the land, most of the advantages in society.
