SOCB53H3 Lecture Notes - Dysfunctional Family, David Theo Goldberg, Peggy Mcintosh
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Henry and tator: racism is not only something done by racists, it is a sociocultural system that achieves specific objectives. Peggy mcintosh: white people benefit from racism/racial hierarchy even if they are not racist. Idea that knowledge is objective, and can be challenged: associated with categorizing things into two groups. Sciences, philosophy and social sciences all implicated in construction of the racialized other . Terms such as the primitive , the orient , third world , and. Hence, rationality is a mark of human subjectivity and so a condition of the necessity to be extended full moral treatment. Rational capacity sets the limit upon the natural equality of all those beings ordinarily taken to be human david theo goldberg. The idea of being rational depends on having an irrational other. Not everyone is included in the category of rational: john locke : humanity = rationality, radhika mohanran s critique. Body doesn t define the person, the mind does.