CNST 361 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Racial Formation Theory, Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality
28 Jan 2017
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Used to look at race as a socially constructed identity, content & importance of racial categories are determined by social, economic, & political forces. As structural forms of power, one/other racial formation may predominate (usually coexist) Change in response to racial projects and vice versa. Can account for change to retain agency of individual human actors & group- based action. Strength how it links specific knowledge products w/ historically constructed power relations. Focuses on racism as mono-categorical system of power. The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, gender, as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping & interdependent system of discrimination or disadvantage. Participates in the power relations it examines, result = must pay special attention to conditions that make its knowledge claims understandable. Suggests knowledge is socially constructed, transmitted, legitimated, & reproduced. Builds on the foundation of racial formation theory w/ greater level of complexity into conceptualizing inequality.
