SOC 308C Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Endangered Species, Welfare Queen
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Summary: opinions on black men are split in the media and schools between criminals and endangered species. Intersection of age, race, gender results are adultification. Age: children are developing and have not reached maturity yet: children occupy ambivalent space being seen as con artists" (manipulator) and innocent". Gender: boys should be naturally naughty" to take risks and behave badly. Race: racial discursus formation, culturally formed through media, representation. Controlling images criminal and endangered species: engrained stereotypes that are pushed by the media, how we view people, how we treat them, and how the see themselves. Ex/ slavery made hypersexual jessabelles and bucks. In the old time, power was in charge and you had to play by their rules, but nowadays it is social norms: norms that are internalized turn us into self-regulating individuals and people are ranked into hierarchy.
