SOCB53H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Black, Hypodescent, Reverse Racism
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White-settler society: disposition of the land and its hsitory and follow up on the racial heirarchy, backed up by racial People of african descent were considered to have no soul, americans had half a soul. There is little discussion about the dislocation of ppl from homes due to slavery or the materliatisc aspect. They claim god made whites superior and those who deviate form it, face the punishment. You never hear about the history of resistance, of those slaves who tried running awaythose are the histories that are invisible, or erased from the collective conscious. We never learn abotu those who look like us, we never learn about the idff ways the land was shaped that we live in. People did put up a fight, but this is all hidden in books. b/c we are all trained to think books are facts, who dont quesiton who wrote the book and whats it purpose is.
