HST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Equal Protection Clause, Federal Intervention, White Supremacy
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Southern strategy: recruit southern whites to fight against drug abuse for nixon. Law and order treat this as a crime issue rather than a health issue. Super predator : a name to call a whole generation of teens who have no conscious and no empathy, It is also expressed in physical sex characteristics. It is not a strict male/ female binary as there are individuals who are intersex. Gender is a social construction: if you exhibit female, then you got to be a feminist. It is related to sex characteristics but not determined by them. Behaviors, attire, professions, rights and social responsibilities deemed appropriate to each gender in society. Gender is also not a strict masculine/feminine binary. Most people exist on a spectrum of gender expression. Gender is central to the workings of racism. The two identities are often so intertwined it is hard to parse out which is which.
