SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Blockbusting, Blue-Collar Worker, White-Collar Crime
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Prejudice: negative attitude toward an entire socially categorized group of people (often against ethnic or racial minority) Discrimination: the denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups based on some type of arbitrary bias. Video on beauty standards in a black community. Young women in black communities feel the need to change their natural hair. The lighter the skin the more beautiful. Black children chose their own race as the bad baby. Bettie: how working class chicas get working class lives. African -american children chose the dark babies as bad . Las chicas have few aspirations, think womanhood and motherhood are only paths. Drug use was not the only target. Present themselves in a way to differentiate from preps. More interested in sharing traditional femininity with one another. Demonized hippies because of associantion with marijuana. Demonized blakcs because of association with crack. Goal = gain more power for the nixon administration ---
