SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - White Privilege, Tina Turner, Oklahoma City Bombing
Document Summary
Being white" is a racial category that emerged during the colonial era. This invisibility of the racial category white" has two important consequences: naturalizes racial differences by implying that only persons who are not members of the dominant group have racial identities. Can"t have a meaningful discussion about races without discussing whiteness: obscures understandings of the social inequities associated with race by blinding members of the dominant group to how the disadvantage of others works to their own advantage. The concept of white people" refers to those persons, typically of european descent who are able by the virtue of skin color or perhaps national origin to be perceived as white" or as members of the dominant group. White race is not a real thing in biological terms but being white" certainly has meaning in social terms. Both white people and people of colour live racially structured lives.
