COMS 201 Quiz: Coms 201 → CRT.docx

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 201
• Professor: Dawn Johnson

Document Summary

Crt : developed by academics/scholars and activists. Concepts : racism is ordinary, not aberrational/unusual. Racism isn"t the exception to the rule, it happens everyday. Has happened to most people of color and is a common experience: there are clear reasons for racism in our society (there are people who benefit from it) Ex: the elite, economically advantaged, psychically benefit (how they feel about themselves) When we think of the hierarchies in society, working class whites are a lower social status than the elite whites, but working class whites are still valued more than working class blacks. There are still people that are worse off than me : race is a social construction, not an objective, inherent or fixed category. Socially constructed categories attached to physical markers of difference. We don"t pay attention to the small differences in people: mainstream or dominant society participates in differential racialization . This is the privileging of some ethnic minorities over others in particular situations.