SOWK 3060 Lecture 11: Working Across Differences
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This week"s readings were about anti- racism and whiteness. Since 1970"s, anti racism is a critical response to diversity and differences. Whiteness on the other hand is a way to maintain legitimacy and power due to one"s privileges as well as maintaining the dominant and/or majority group"s power within social service organizations. This can be the primary mechanism that prevents anti-racist workers make a change in today"s societal and institutional arrangements. Exnomination is the language we use particularly about racialized people and how we represent white people. For instance, we don"t usually name the ethnicity of white people but for racialized people we usually do. Naturalization is the way white people are viewed as the norm and how they are positioned as the referential norm without having to define themselves.
