NEW240Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Heteronormativity, Emmett Till, White Privilege
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Emmett till: emett till was a 14 year old african american boy who was accused and punished for flirting with a white women. He was murdered by a group the white husband along with other white racist individuals. The body was horrifically tortured, his mother display his corpse for four days. Lecture, racialized bodies are seen as dirty, criminal and sick due to the colonial history and the development of the other . This is relevant to equity studies because the body of the 14 year old boy represents the existing racialization and the burden the social group carries due to their physical differences that contributes to the racial imaginary. Pathologiization of poverty tells us poverty is the outcome of own personal or group psychological abnormalities. As a result , they need medication to treat and cure the illness that is contributing to their poverty: lack of interest in the resistance practiced by marginalized groups.
