GGR217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nancy Fraser, Internalized Racism, Internalized Oppression
11 May 2018
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Professor Katharine Rankin Nov. 28, 2016
GGR217 LECTURE 10
RIGHT TO THE CITY
LECTURE 9 (RECAP):
• Increasingly, planners are criticizing segregated spaces (rejection of segregation for
people with disabilities and lower class status).
• Even when there is unintentional racism, people that are minority still have disadvantages
• Structural Racism Imbedded in institutions that ascribes advantages a dominant ethnic
cultural majority and creates systematic disadvantages to a minority
• Individual Racism Individual or internalized racism lies within individuals. Ex,
Prejudice, oppression and privilege, xenophobia
STRUCTURAL RACISM is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics—
historical, cultural, institutional and interpersonal—that routinely advantage whites while
producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of colour. It is a system of
hierarchy and inequity, primarily characterized by white supremacy—the preferential treatment,
privilege and power for white people at the expense of Black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander,
Native American, Arab and other racially oppressed people.
• Indicators/Manifestations key indicators of structural racism are inequalities in power,
access, opportunities, treatment, and policy impacts and outcomes, whether they are
intentional or not
- Structural Racism is more difficult to locate in a particular institution because it
involves the reinforcing effects of multiple institutions and cultural norms, past and
present, continually producing new, and re-producing old forms of racism
INDIVIDUAL RACISM
• Individual/internalized racism lies within individuals
• Private manifestations of racism that reside inside the individual
Ex. prejudice, xenophobia, internalized oppression and privilege, beliefs about race
influenced by the dominant culture
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM
“RIGHT TO THE CITY” CONCEPTUALIZATION
• Renewed right to Urban Life
• The right to the city can be complicated (political process)
• Conceptualizations
- Harvey = the right to define the “right to the city” is itself contested, right to
change and reinvent the city, rallying cry (Harvey argues that the path involves
some kind of shaping power over the process of urbanization; control over the use
of surplus)
- Marcuse = Whose right? What right? And to what city? (Marcuse argues that we
expose, propose, politicize)
“THE RIGHT TO STAY PUT”
• Chester Hartman’s seminal article details how the "right to stay put" might be instituted
for homeowners and tenants fighting displacement
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Document Summary
Individual racism individual or internalized racism lies within individuals. Structural racism is the normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics historical, cultural, institutional and interpersonal that routinely advantage whites while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of colour. It is a system of hierarchy and inequity, primarily characterized by white supremacy the preferential treatment, privilege and power for white people at the expense of black, latino, asian, pacific islander, Native american, arab and other racially oppressed people. Indicators/manifestations key indicators of structural racism are inequalities in power, access, opportunities, treatment, and policy impacts and outcomes, whether they are intentional or not. Structural racism is more difficult to locate in a particular institution because it involves the reinforcing effects of multiple institutions and cultural norms, past and present, continually producing new, and re-producing old forms of racism. Individual/internalized racism lies within individuals: private manifestations of racism that reside inside the individual.
