CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Physical Attractiveness, Eurocentrism, Social Stratification
15 Oct 2018
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Challenging to discuss but, it is important to talk about because if we don"t we are letting racism continue by allowing groups to believe the oppression. This goes back to colonisation european settlers would say that other communities are inferior which led to the communities internalizing that and then believing that europeans were better: this is why colonisation was so successful. This created a lot of injury including internalized racial oppression. Fahon 1st to get a phd in the us: different ways to be oppressed including psychologically which can result in internalized racial oppression. These two theorists created the term internalized racial oppression by drawing on their own experience but also the history of colonialism. Definition of iro internalization of white racism by racialized minorities: moment when oppressed accepts the ideas of the oppressor. These ideas are stereotypes and negative ideologies. All inequality are maintained and reproduced in though the internalization by the oppressed: not just racism.
