ANT204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Samuel George Morton, Scientific Racism
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A few quick points about race in contemporary north america: we are interpellated (called into, hailed into) into our racial identities. (being black for me, perform your racial difference, even liberal attitudes reproduce deep racist structures. Even through this seeming benevolence- inclusion, there is an underlying theme. (linda never gets to be regular linda, she constantly is reduced into a representation. : everyday racism (intimate violence) has pernicious effects. The fact that you are black linda chips away at you- a form of violence which does not comes across as epithets and insults. The need to see these stereotypes we already believe, fulfilled. B & s : violence as a continuum that spans : Structural; racial preference through lineage, environmental racists; the poorest people have to live in the poorest places. Symbolic; takes place through the mechanism where people believe that their inequality is natural or to blame themselves for their unequal positions (because of certain types of social representation).
