SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - White Privilege, Tokenism, Racialization
8 Dec 2011
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Ideas of race as a biological fact have not been consistent. Racialization: the process of attributing complex characteristics to racial categories (ie. athletic abilities) sociologists are not interested in pinning down differences in people, but how they turn into socially significant sets of meanings. Oppression is consistent produces groups of people not accidental leads to double-bind situations both hyper visible & invisible. Racial oppression leads to situations of hyper-visibility and invisibility. Hyper visible- people understood as the racial other are asked to speak for their entire race. If you are not white people may use what you say as their whole understanding of a group of people. Situations of tokenism- hiring one white person who is to speak to an environment of inclusion. If they do something that is understood to be deviant they are proving racist points. If they do something non-deviant they are understood to be exemplary.
