CYC 900 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - White People, Cyc, White Privilege
12 Oct 2018
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CYC 900
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Cyc 900 week 1/2 lecture
September 10/17/24 2018
Oppression in canada
- Challenging the conception of oppression as “normal”
- Colonization of First Nations people
- Practices of “containment” and its impact
- Legislation
- Indian act
- Set up to contain indigenous
- Role of reserves and residential schools in mental control of First Nations people
- All oppression are not the same
- Every experiences oppression differently
- I.e. white gay male seen as straight vs. white gay male seen as gay
- We are all implicating the system
- Oppression through the things we buy
- Food, clothing, etc.
- No connection between poverty and violence
- We are conditioned to think this
- Women were seen as a property
- Can’t vote, cant own property
- Women are seen in the private domain
- Home work that doesn’t get recognition
- Men are seen in the public domain
- Work is recognized
- Success is based on how hard you work
- Doesn’t always work out
- We all don’t start off at the same level
- Can’t get to the same end point if we all don’t start at the same point
Everyday nature of oppression
- Limited access to social benefits
- Immigrants lack access to various needs
- If you know people you can manage when struggling
- Examples of social resources
- Language
- If you cannot speak the same language as the resource providing
help then you don’t have access
- The investment in meritocracy and liberalism
- Feminization of poverty
- Racialization of poverty
- stereotype
- Intersectionality
- The way in which different parts of your life connect
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Race
- Race as “biology”
- One race
- We look different due to the environment we live in
- Race as ideology
- Human made concept
- Binary of race
- People of the superior race give labels to the inferior race
- I.e. accents
- We assume there are many different accents and only some
people have them
- White skin
- Positive characteristics
- Not having to do anything and getting the positive characteristics
- Not worked for, born into
- White people are the marker of what it is to be human
- Hierarchy of race - power and control
- Materiality of race
- We treat people based on the meanings that we attach to the race
- Race as a social construction
- We are all the same
- There is not one thing that only one race does that others don’t
- Everything can be learned
- Race and power
- Whoever has the power makes the rules
- Benefit the wealthy and powerful
- “A historically constructed, legally and institutionally embedded system of injustices that
privilege one group over all other groups in society and “race” is used as the
distinguishing feature that determines who gets rewards” (Daniel, p. 18-19)
- Racism as a process and strategy
- Embedded in ALL social institutions
Power and race
- Power - economic - political - ideological control
- Historically developed and manifeste in present time
- Racial signifiers - value and meaning
- Re-production of race “SARS”
White privilege
- Development of the racial hierarchy placed Europeans at the top
- Afforded intergenerational privilege
- White skin privilege
- Deemed to be more educated
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Document Summary
Challenging the conception of oppression as normal . Role of reserves and residential schools in mental control of first nations people. I. e. white gay male seen as straight vs. white gay male seen as gay. Women are seen in the private domain. Men are seen in the public domain. Success is based on how hard you work. We all don"t start off at the same level. Can"t get to the same end point if we all don"t start at the same point. If you know people you can manage when struggling. If you cannot speak the same language as the resource providing help then you don"t have access. The way in which different parts of your life connect. We look different due to the environment we live in. People of the superior race give labels to the inferior race. We assume there are many different accents and only some. Not having to do anything and getting the positive characteristics.
