SYG 2000 Lecture 18: 11/01/2016: Lecture part 1 (Finishing chapter 8)
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Practices, beliefs social relations and phenomena that reproduce a racial hierarchy. Grants power and advantage for some, disadvantages and oppression for others. If she wanted to, she can arrange to be accompanied of only your race, etc. If you"re talking about racism and you"re white, people are more likely to listen to you. Opening or expanding its boundaries in order to maintain its dominance. What we usually think of when we call someone a racist. Discourse: slurs and hate speech, racism embedded into language. Interaction: how we avoid or treat other people. Structural: long-term and widespread stratification based on all of the above. Systemic: racism is itself an institution that creates all the above problems. Deliberate and systematic extermination of a racial, ethnic, national or cultural group. Forcible removal of a group of people from the territory they inhabit. Economic and political subjugation of minority group by the dominant. Physical and legal separation go groups by race or ethnicity.