SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Essentialism, Male Privilege, Bell Hooks
5 Dec 2013
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Frankenberg, points of origin, points of departure (ck) Mckintosh, white privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack (ck) hooks, representing whiteness in the black imagination (ck) Jordan, in the land of white supremacy (ck) Moodle video link: tim wise on white privilege. Assignment #1 due at the beginning of lecture (for tutorials 1-4 & 7-10). Distribution of assignment #2 (on whiteness) during lecture. Frankenberg: gender and whiteness how the lives of white women are raced (prompted by feminist/radical women on colour). Hooks: whiteness as terror (critical view from the margins) - life is regulated in the way u see me/constructed to see me. dominant group that makes sense of the other. relations of looking. Mcintosh: the everyday racism cultural practices and norms of whiteness that are invisible to those who are white. The invisible knapsack as a series of privilege rights & entitlements that are not earned but conferred and naturalized. power we have inherited bc of bodies we live in.
