SOCB53H3 Lecture 2: Week 2 reader notes
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The concept of race and the radicalization of social divisions: This is not a unitary system of signification that can be labeled racist nor is there a unitary perpetrator or victim. purely with reference to ethnic or race phenomena. In our view, the explication of racisms therefore cannot be undertaken. However, in practice individuals may belong to a number of ethnic groups. It is important to differentiate between racism within the state and racism within civil society. This requires us to recognize the idea of a racist imagination, are both too restrictive. All three divisions involve differential access to resources and processes of exclusion and inclusion, and at times oppression and domination. They all involve systems of representation concerning capacities and needs, both within everyday language and embodied in official documents and state practices and legislation. In race it is a different human stock that is posited, which cannot transmit genes, which are parallel to other races.
