WMST 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patricia Hill Collins, Soft Skills, Reverse Racism

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1110
• Professor: Ko

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Race: race as a social construct, most of what we know about others is distorted, limited, and is not a result of direct interaction or experience, exposure to harmful stereotypes. Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seenbut from what we have not been told (tatum) Defining racism (ctd: prejudice: preconceived judgement based on limited information, cultural racism: cultural images and messages that affirm the assumed superiority of whites and the assumed inferiority of people of color. Internalized oppression: internalizing stereotypical categories or negative messages about one"s group: defining racism differently- a system of advantage based on race. It is not only a personal ideology, but a system if involving cultural messages and institutionalized policies and practices as well as the beliefs and actions of individuals (tatum) I don"t discriminate based on skin color/race (subtext: color blindness as a willful neglect - tim wise doc.