SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White Supremacy, Essentialism, Racialization

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A static construction based on essentialism that define people across hardened or semi-hardened categories; categories are formulated according to people"s bodies and define characteristics such as intelligence, aesthetics, values, and understandings of social phenomena. An imaginary understanding that has no biological validity; however race continues to carry material and discursive effects: racial classifications have been used to rationalize colonialism, slavery, genocide, and ongoing inequities. Prejudice: an attitude that judges his person on his or her group"s real of imagined characteristics. Discrimination: unfair treatment of people because of their group membership. We should think of race as an element of social structure rather than as an irregularity within it; we should see race as a dimension of human representation rather than an illusion. The sociohistorical process by which categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed. When we speak about race, we are often told to get over it" or to avoid using the race card".

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