AMST 3252W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trans Woman, Christine Jorgensen, Heterosexuality
Questions for George Lipsitz's article, "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness:
Racialized Social Democracy and the 'White' Problem in American Studies":
What does Lipstiz mean by the “possessive investment in whiteness”? !
-Besattheten av att investera i vitheten inte en fråga om svart eller vitt; alla icke-vita minoriteter
har drabbats av den, även om det handlar om olika gradskillnader och olika sätt som detta ägt
rum på.!
- ”The possessive investment in whiteness is not a simple matter of black and white;; all
racialized minority groups have suffered from it, albeit to different degrees and in different
ways”#
- Racialized hierarchys in the society !
Lipsitz maintains that racism takes on different forms across space and time—
what are some examples that Lipsitz provides that explain how racism has
operated at different times?
- 1960s in the form of civil rights legislation, the racialized nature of social democratic
policies in the United States since the great depression has, in my judgement, actually
increased the possessive investment in whiteness among European Americans over the
past half-century. !
- The federal housing act 1934 brought homeownership within reach of millions of
citizens by plaing the credit of the federal government behind private lending to home
buyers, but overtly racist categories in the Federal Housing Administration’s
“confidential” city surveys and appraisers’ manuals channeled almost all of the loan
money toward whites and away from communities of color.
- In the post WW2 era trade unions negotiated contract provisions giving private medical
insurance, pensions,, and job security largely to the mostly white workers in unionized
mass--production industries rather than fighting for full employment, universal medical
care, and old age pensions for all or for an end to discriminatory hiring and promotion
practices by employers
How does the ideology of liberal individualism obfuscate the structural
inequalities that shape the life chances of people of color? Hur förhindrar den
liberala individualismens ideologi de strukturella ojämlikheterna som bildar
livsförmågan hos människor i färg?!
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Questions for Emily Skidmore's article, "Constructing the 'Good Transsexual': Christine
Jorgensen, Whiteness, and Heteronormativity in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Press:
How did Jorgensen, a trans woman, assert her allegiance to heterosexuality? !
- That she one day wanted to get married.
How do racialized gender ideologies discipline and regulate bodies?
How did the mass media shape perceptions/constructions of Jorgensen as a
“good transsexual”? !
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