SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frantz Fanon, Double Consciousness, Internalized Racism
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All the customers interviewed where black people/african americans. Cheap, fried chicken to feed families (feeding kids with fast food>relates to unhealthy lifestyle) The original inequality stems from scientific attempts to classify individuals with physiological traits. Racialization: social process by which individuals are singled out for unequal treatment on the basis of imagined physical characteristics (sociologically phenomenon: traits are deemed to be socially significant, because genetically they are not. Many social scientists view race as a social construction. Mercantilism, colonialism, industrial capitalism: a way to justify the mass pillage. Entire population were segregated, forced to work. Race became a way to justify discrimination/negative acts: victims were genetically inferior, whites man"s burden . Moral obligations to go out and civilize non-whites. Half devil and half child , go out and make them like us (whites: slavery. Dubois: the veil and double consciousness: the veil. White americans don"t see african americans as true americans .
