UIC-3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hypoesthesia, Precarity, Securitization
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Arrive as an other (negative based on color/race etc. ) A regime of practices, institutions, discourses & systems. Someones displacement lets us give them jobs that no one else wants here. How we live is connected to other issues (sweatshops) Priveledge associated with being white is a descriptive of a settler colony and allows discrimination on colored races. Processes that utilize racial markings to construct diverse communities of color. Whiteness as a system of exploitation & oppression. Negative stereotypes inherent to a racial community. Identity can become reactive trying to fit in with a new culture and changing to their cultures clothing. Common discourses justifies the over-criminalization & de-humanization of migrants. State as victim" vs. migrants as innately criminal". The black and brown bodies of men of color incite an overwhelming fear for onlookers, whether politicians, policemen, or television viewers, who interpret .