SOC256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White Privilege
24 Dec 2015
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Lecture 11 comforting fictions, (awkward paradoxes), inconvenient truths. August 16, saturday, 12. 30 in this room (1229) Ch 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 + lectures. Format = similar to midterm: mc + short answers + essay question. * why persisting? o: how do racisms work? o. A paradigm shift in the way racisms are. : understood, experienced, challenged. Comforting fictions: history of canada, canada = mc + postracial? + human rights, canada = global pacesetter, canadians = tolerant, accommodating, fair go", a sense of perspective . Awkward paradoxes: most awkward: racialized inequality, how to account for persistence, proliferation of racisms/exclusions. Multiculturalism: racism without racists, without race. Perceptual divides living in 2 worlds (everydaysexism. com laura bates) Canadians = racialized: racisms and unequal relations. Racisms as structural exclusion/inequality: canadians = in principle but not practice. Reluctant to actually do it; costs psychological, monetary or social: multicultural = solution + problem ch 12 (not responsible for on final exam)
