SOC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Viola Davis, White Privilege, Racialization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 105
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Minority talking about whose voices and perspectives are more visible and. Ethnicity refers to cultural groups; can be tied to race. Race does not exist biologically; significant socially, regardless of science (part of how to make sense of the world). Racialization the process of how race becomes meaningful as a social pattern; focuses on process/ highlights that race as an idea that is cultural and socially dynamic. Interested in the process of social processes that allow us to act socially (?) Creates racialized people ad both hyper-visible and hyper-invisible: ex: viola davis [in her speech] talks about the invisible while being hyper-visible as a minority. Oppression consistent amount of prejudice, racism, etc: discrimination, systemic discrimination, prejudice, democratic racism. The invisible knapsack white people have a knapsack on their back that they don"t notice that get you places, but it"s difficult to acknowledge them because they don"t recognize these privileges.