WGS200Y5 Lecture Notes - Whiteness Studies, Lactase, Eugenics

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23 Oct 2012

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UTM

Department

Women and Gender Studies

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WGS200Y5

Professor

Karen Ruffle

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Discriminate and privilege based on perceived/ real differences btw ppl. Birdcage metaphor oppression all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or bobby trapped . Macroscopic level outside looking in, inside cage : microscopic view. Oppression hard to recognize, must see structure as a whole system of inequality : racism, sexism, classism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, ableism and ageism. Institutions : social organizations that involve established patterns of behaviour organized around particular functions. Meet needs of some groups better than others. Systems subordination/domination : -assign gender-based rules, -unequal distribution of resources, - intersectionality institutions tend to divide by gender. Ideas/value (stereotypes, jokes), or ideologies contribute to inequality. Often unintentional : internalized|-ppl believe in the truth of stereotypes. Horizontal hostility the directing or imposition of anger toward those who we can dominate. Gendered bodies : shaped by ideologies of gender what is mean to be fem/male. Conditioned by social class, race, religion, language, ethnicity. Racial belief systems determine biologically-based racial classification systems.

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My response: I agree that being a part of the white society is like the concept of invisible privilege that has a familiar simile in that it is analogous to an invisible weightless knapsack. This metaphor emphasizes that white privilege, even though it may not be immediately obvious, has considerable advantages and opportunities that may include a lot of benefits and freedom to life. White people benefit from the structures and institutions in which they live. In the same culture, they were trained to be oblivious to their benefits. The undeserved advantages that were created by white people made people of color feel as if they were being oppressed. It is a norm and dominating racial power to be white in this society. For instance, if a white person comes into a new neighborhood, they are fairly certain that the bulk of their neighbors are the same color as them. A person has no idea of the advantages they have until they put themselves in the shoes of other people of color. Peggy McIntosh said that white advantages don't originate from a fault in a single human or from a single individual using them. It is via an inherent fault in the system that white privilege is created. If we wish to effect systemic change, it must occur inside the system. Systems have a major impact on individual behavior in the social world. We may all do our part to hasten the end. McIntosh maintains that white people may see racism in a different way when something gives them an advantage over others, not because it benefits white people. Systemic oppressions have interactive and internalized characteristics. Teaching racism as an act rather than an overall system that advantages the dominant group makes it difficult for white people to see themselves as racists. Embedded systems can't be eliminated, the recognition of them is important. Change won't come from just being dissatisfied with the system. McIntosh's example offers many benefits for comprehending white privilege. There are many advantages to understanding white privilege as the McIntosh example demonstrates. While it is true that 'whiteness' is simply about skin color, the various definitions of race reveal that it is really much more than that. The fact that McIntosh refers to white advantage rather than non-white disadvantage when framing the discussion of race reinforces the overall idea that race should be seen in terms of advantage rather than disadvantage.

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