ANTH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Melting Pot, Institutional Racism, Structural Violence

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH101
• Professor: Smiley- Robinson Karen

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Invisible backpack of privilege i(cid:374) e(cid:448)er(cid:455) da(cid:455) i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)e do(cid:374)(cid:859)t re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ize that we have been provided with resources that others do not have; not conscious construction; based on the localized environment you are born gives you certain privileges. Ideologically oversimplifying the process edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374)al i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)s does(cid:374)(cid:859)t sho(cid:449) the flow and relation between different historical events. The product of racism: the city itself has been racially organized and throughout history the poor and minority were put in low line areas of the city; most unsafe; not voluntarily live. For most, there is little difference between race and ethnicity: people act as though both are biological. High rates of unemployment/underemployment insufficient for a capitalist society to sustain self. Race and the legacy of colonialism and history of u. s. racial categories: =created (cid:374)e(cid:449) ra(cid:272)ialized hierar(cid:272)hies (cid:449)ith (cid:862)white europea(cid:374)s(cid:863) at the top & (cid:448)ar(cid:455)i(cid:374)g grades of dark below. The darker: the more perceived primitive and savage and the more powerless.