SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Whiteness Studies, White Privilege, European Canadian
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Assumption: race is about others - minority groups generally, and often blacks in particular. white (as a racial category) is also socially constructed. Not all whites" experience of whiteness are the same. How different groups have claimed whiteness, and how those claims have been rejected, negotiates or accepted. The process by which white ethnic groups became white over time. Learned what is has meant to be white by distancing themselves by others. Eth(cid:374)ic groups do(cid:374) t arri(cid:448)e i(cid:374) north a(cid:373)erica (cid:449)ith embedded racial categories in mind they are leant what it is meant to be white through colonialization over time. How whiteness is lived or experienced, particularly privileges that non-white people are dined. How whiteness is lived or experienced (focussing on privileges given to white and on the converse what is denied to non whites) Focusses on the day to day work experienced about what it means to be white.
