SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peggy Mcintosh, White Privilege, Civic Nationalism
6 Feb 2017
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Sociology: race and ethnicity: focus on inequality and power, social significance of categories of race and ethnicity, focus on discrimination, race and ethnicity as achieved statuses, race and ethnicity as socially constructed, race as a biological myth. Ethnicity: objective definitions of ethnicity: ethnicity as fixed and static, subjective approaches to ethnicity: ethnic identity as variable and flexible. Experience of visible minority university students: ex. Institutional racism: discriminatory racial practices built into institutions, 3 forms: 2) institutional practices that were originally racist but no longer are. 3) institutions that unintentionally restrict the chances of certain groups. White privilege (i. e. racial profiling: unearned privilege that whites benefit from, concept developed by peggy mcintosh (feminist and anti-racist scholar and activist) 3 groups facing inequality: 1) aboriginals (economic and health outcomes, 2) black men (economic outcomes suggest persistent discrimination, 3) recent immigrants (poorer outcomes as compared to earlier waves of immigrants)
