ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Peggy Mcintosh, European Canadian, White Privilege
13 Jul 2018
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Oppressive structures (social institutions) of inequality and power that arise when certain groups are a orded greater legitimacy or value tan others. Can be overt (racial slurs, police brutality) and/or embedded (racial pro ling, representation in social media, white privilege) Conrad kottak: race in brazil; race as a continuum of social strati cation rather than a xed category (colorism) Colonized as portuguese who brought slaves from africa therefore its multicultural. Whiteness is associated with privilege, wealth, prestige, and power. Race is uid and can change with physical changes. Susie phipps: louisiana; race as a form a legal classi cation. She was white passing but found out she was mixed after nding her birth certi cate. Her great great great great grandmother was black, but her mother however was white passing and hid her blackness from her daughter. In the south, black people wouldn"t be able to vote and just generally were associated with many negative attributes.
