REL 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White Supremacy, Cognitive Dissonance, African Diaspora
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Cognitive dissonance what you imagine something to be is different from reality (i. e, black musician can"t be a violinist, instead should be playing jazz music) Never such thing as one culture (i. e. , a. Real brit but if you go to britian, you find all kinds of people there). Diversity within the category/label black itself a phenomenon that is everywhere. Stuff that we take for granted as being real. Society gives us a race to identify with. In the past, only four legitimate races existed race doesn"t really exist, but the impli- cations of racialized identity is very real. Something (race) that not real used in the history of mankind . Race has been used and continues to be used. Race is not real, but racialized identity has real implications. Policies, built into the system, that disadvantage certain types of peoples while privileging oth- ers. Education is disturbing most people don"t want to think because it can disturb your reality.