ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Stratification, Coloureds, Skin Whitening
12 Sep 2018
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Race as a cultural construction : conrad kottak race in brazil; race as a continuum rather than a fixed category (a concept known as colourism ) white dude was respected initially, on other end of spectrum. 30 different categories of race in brazil based on skin colour, even different shades of white skin (7). His skin got darker and darker and people were less respectful to him and treating him differently. 1977. how race is deployed, identified as a white women. Wanted to go on a trip, needed birth certificate, found out parents were black. 1/32 black; anyone who had this much black, it made them black. Challenged that law (what would happened if it was vice versa), however lost: e. g of how racism marginalizes people. Embedded: resentment, not on the surface, snake, systematic. Example of embedded racism: white privilege peggy mcintosh began to circulate in academia, now just filtered into popular culture.
