SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elijah Anderson, Air Jordan, Critical Race Theory
5 Jun 2018
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Race and Racism in Pop Culture
Defining Race
Cornel West:
- Meaning different things to different people in different places at different time
- Is a base for formation of social groups as they have shaped the formation of real or
imagined communities of people
- Represent the lived experiences of individuals and groups and reveal clear and real
dimensions of social/ in equality
Semiotics
- Critical race theory uses semiotics
Semiotics:
- Signs are made up of
1. Signifiers – the word or image
2. Signified – the concepts and ideas they represent
- Together they create a sign
- Semiotics examines how meaning in constructed, interpreted and understood through
signs we create, including cinematic and televisual words and images
Socially Conducted Racisms
- W/ in the PC exist images and representations of race that have become hegemonic
w/in the PC as it takes cues and clues from social world
1. Violent Assault
o Hates crimes such as physical assault or hate speech
2. Institutionalized Racism
o Exercised via unequal access to education, healthcare, housing and/ or
discrimination in the workplace
o When advantages are given to one group over another
3. Overt Racism
o When open and favorable coverage is given to arguments or positions who are in
an openly racist argument or want to advance racist ideology
o Inclusion and exclusion – settig oudaries of ho elogs ad ho does’t
o Produces and maintains ideologies addressing social status, economic political
power, Human rights, equality, self-determination and autonomy
Race in PC
1. Common sense (or passive positive) racism:
- Revealed via the expression of common sense or casual attitudes based on stereotype,
prejudice and often explained away through humor
- Appearing to make a positive statement (ie. Black ppl are good at bball, Chinese good at
math)
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Document Summary
Meaning different things to different people in different places at different time. Is a base for formation of social groups as they have shaped the formation of real or imagined communities of people. Represent the lived experiences of individuals and groups and reveal clear and real dimensions of social/ in equality. Signs are made up of: signifiers the word or image, signified the concepts and ideas they represent. Semiotics examines how meaning in constructed, interpreted and understood through signs we create, including cinematic and televisual words and images. Inclusion and exclusion setti(cid:374)g (cid:271)ou(cid:374)daries of (cid:449)ho (cid:271)elo(cid:374)gs a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ho does(cid:374)"t: produces and maintains ideologies addressing social status, economic political power, human rights, equality, self-determination and autonomy. Race in pc: common sense (or passive positive) racism: Revealed via the expression of common sense or casual attitudes based on stereotype, prejudice and often explained away through humor.
