SOC 525 Lecture Notes - First Nations, Jeremy Lin, Slacker
27 Jan 2014
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> w. b: the first black man to graduate from harvard with phd. Aware of mediated world and racism in the world. Capitalism gives power to the elites and whiteness is what gives us power prestige. Peggy mcintosh: we don"t address structural inequality amongst race. Race to distinguish differences amongst people and making connections to assume physical and biological differences. The differences in race have embedded innate attributions in other people like intelligence. Racialization is something socially construed and given meaning. > assumed to share a homeland, ancestry, and community and religion in a specific race. Manifesting canadian history through law, policing, education and media. Frances henry: canada itself has had a racist history (aboriginals, japanese). Meritocracy often times linked to ideological belief systems and normalizing white experiences, attributions, interests, etc. When racilaized groups succeed only found as a favor not hard work (ie) black people becoming successful through becoming a hip hop artist.
