SOCA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: White Privilege, Positive Element, Markit
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Engaging whiteness: how racial power gets reified in education notes. Twelve different discourses that students cite are described, grouped into four broad appeals: to self, to progress, to authenticity, and to extremes. Intro two researchers eager to see talk about how this class was interacting with the whiteness literature offered to them. The class began with initial statements of disbelief, confusion, anger, and frustration at how, as a society, we" could continue to perpetuate such a racist and violent world. Pleased to see the students making such progress. Pleased to see these (mostly) white students so quickly coming to see their own implications in these systems of power and dominance. And now, in the seventh week, we were interested in seeing how those powerful discussions would translate to a different context. Randy had been by far the most vocal in the class.
