SOC367H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Playing Indian, Ava Duvernay, Manifest Destiny
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Lecture 2: write critical reflection paper for next week- start readings asap. Horizontal relations of violence: one person suppressing bottom (man top, woman bottom; white top, black bottom) Vertical: when agents enforce subordinate status on others: they theorize violence and relations of complicity, they theorize race, class and gender and other social formations, race is socially constructed; in 19th century us- west coast vs east coast. Youtube video: reverse racism/: white people assuming that brown and black people can be racist to white people, falla(cid:272)(cid:455): the assu(cid:373)ptio(cid:374) is that there is(cid:374)(cid:859)t alread(cid:455) a po(cid:449)er i(cid:373)(cid:271)ala(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Assumes that people of colour have that power. The(cid:455) do (cid:374)ot ha(cid:448)e the po(cid:449)er to defi(cid:374)e the(cid:373) the(cid:455) (cid:373)ight (cid:271)e prejudi(cid:272)e against white people, brown people, black people. It is possible that brown people can be racist to black people because the(cid:455) are (cid:862)higher o(cid:374) the ra(cid:272)ial hierar(cid:272)h(cid:455)(cid:863) Black people cannot be racist because they do not have the power to do so.
