SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Color Blindness, Class Discrimination
29 Nov 2018
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Critical race theory and social legal empirical research. Race is a social construction whose meanings and effects are contingent and change over time. Racism interests with other forms of inequality, such as classism, sexism and homophobia. Racial stereotypes are ubiquitous in society and limit the opportunities of people of colour. Racial inequalities are hardwired into the fabric of our social and economic landscape. Racism in the past has a huge presence today. Because racism exists at both the subconscious and conscious levels, the elimination of international racism would not eliminate racial inequality. The concept of colour blindness in law and social police had the argument for ostensibly race-neutral practices often serve to undermine the interest of people of color. Racial change occurs when the interests of white elites converge with the interests of the racially disempowered. Seeing race and the social construction of race. Put simply, blind people experience race just like everyone else: visually.
