WMST 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Body Hair, Simone De Beauvoir, White Supremacy

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 250
• Professor: Avery Dame

Document Summary

What does it mean to say that race is a social concept or construct : race is a way to say these are two separate people. Racial formaions: the process by which social, economic and poliical forces determining the content and importance of racial categories, and by which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings. Racializaion: how a person visibly assigns and takes on the physical characterisics that embody race. Hypo/hyperdescent: how much of your blood comes from diferent parts of your family. (usually through race) One is not born a woman, but rather becomes a woman (simone de beauvoir) What are ways we do gender in our daily lives: clothing, mannerisms, makeup, walking, body hair, haircuts.