POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biological Determinism, Racialization, Chauvinism
19 Jan 2016
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The film shows two sides to each character. Everybody in the film is both a victim and a victimizer of racism. Showing corruption in the system, yet the white cop ends up being the victim (the cop who shot a black cop) Ludacris is a walking contradiction (angry at racism yet follows stereotypes) Racism, as portrayed in the movie, is produced by own inability to tolerate people. Racism is not so much a product of the concept of race as the very reason for its the underlying desire for hierarchical categorization implicit as in racism, race" difference and other. Helps maintain the belief that our current social arrangements are unchangeable. Argues that inequality is the result of biological differences. Biological determinist arguments are used to justify unequal treatment of women, immigrants, and racialized minorities. Prejudice: an attitude of dislike or hostility towards an individual based on group. Discrimination: denial of equal treatment or opportunities based on membership the poor,
