CRM/LAW C115 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: White Supremacy, White Privilege, South Carolina Highway 5
12 Jun 2016
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Social construct classifying people based on visible and perceived differences. Race is less flexible and more exclusionary because it is assigned based on appearance. Race implies hierarchy while ethnicity is value-neutral. Ethnicity is people who share or believe they share a common ancestry. Ethnicity has to do with self assertion of identity (ex. embrace culture/heritage or not: race is considered a modern phenomenon (not ancient). Classifies whites as full persons deserving of all rights, non-whites are less than human and have lesser moral status. Social contract does not include race and so is fictional compared to the racial contract which shows the divide between whites and non-whites realistically and shows the reality of white supremacy. Epistemological - how we see ourselves and the world, agreement for whites to misinterpret the world (ex. whites misunderstand race) Moral - moral code that society deems normal, full whites are moral beings entitled to moral consideration (ex. rationalization of slavery)
