SOCA03Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Maya Angelou, Racialization, Minority Group

• School: UTSC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCA03Y3
• Professor: Liddle, K.

Document Summary

Race and racialization: the plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams. Discrimination: prejudice: negative thoughts towards a category of people, discrimination: actions treating a category of people differently, racism = ideology, assume a category of racial groups are superior to other races. Justifies treating people differently based on their racial category: assumes one racial category is inherently superior (that of the group in control, aamer rahman on reverse racism, long history social structure. Your friend is chinese therefore she must be good at math: exception fallacy all chinese must be good at math, example, specific ->general: your friend is chinese and she id good at math. A dangerous distortion of our families: representations of families, by race, in news and opinion media. color of change: oakland,