CHICANO 10B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: New Zealand National Football Team, George Lipsitz, Intersectionality
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Naming our social locations and mapping systems of power and priv. Ucpd town hall meeting, 1/17/18 6pm-8pm kerckhoff grand salon. The possessive investment in whiteness - george lipsitz. Whiteness (and race in general) is a cultural and social construct. "studies of culture too far removed from studies of social structure leave us with ina understanding racism and inadequate remedies for combating it" "racism changes over time, taking on different forms and serving different social. When we don"t recognize the role of structures in creating and maintaining inequal demonizes people of color for being victimized while hiding the privileges of whi family values, fatherhood, and fore-sight- rather than to favoritism" "the federal housing act of 1934 brought home ownership " Housing, bank loans, labor unions, laws, enforcement of laws, environmenta reform. White people are not "naturally" superior, they"ve just have more advantages. "group interests are not monolithic, and aggregate figures can obscure serious diff.