GWST 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White Supremacy, Racialization, Intersectionality
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Like gender, race, racialization is socially constructed a process. Race is established to give a moral justification for white supremacy. Race was a category invented by europenas to distinguish themselves from the people who they enslaved and whose land they colonized. A colonization of the world by european began in 1500s. Colonial expansion is enabled the developemt of europes" rapacity industrial economies. You can"t think the history of race an racisism without thinking about colonial powers, in. England especially and the slaves trade, how certain discourses were invented by the colonizer s. Who did the british worry about- slave owners.