SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Motherfucker, Black M, Financial Institution

• School: Emory University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Scott Tracy

Document Summary

Probability of discrimination increases when moving from friendship setting to outside sites (workplace) Protection weakens from work/school setting to public accommodations: range of discriminatory actions. Antilocution to: avoidance: white couple crossing street when black m approaches, exclusion/rejection: poor service in public accommodations, verbal attacks: shouting racial epithets, physical attack: harassments by white police officers, extermination, black responses to discrimination. 1960"s: blacks expected to respond with great deference. 1800-1950"s: numerous lynchings and other violence targeted blacks with behavior defined as too aggressive. Strong relationship b/w type of discrimination and site: rejection/poor service most common in public accommodations, verbal/physical threat most likely in street, most common response: withdrawal/ verbal reply, few retaliate physically, responses to discrimination: public accommodations. Two fundamental strategies: verbal confrontation and withdrawal: story of journalist and bf who went to restaurant --> were not seated, bf wanted to leave, journalist called up manager and asked why he thinks they werent seated.