ANT206H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Group Cohesiveness, Ingroups And Outgroups, White Supremacy
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Howard and douglas, two black staff members use the black power handshake, which in this neighbourhood, consists of three separate grasps executed in rapid order. Dave, a white staff member, whom they have never met before, puts his hand out with a vertical forearm to offer his hand for a black power handshake. But howard greets him with a traditional handshake. Like spoken or sign language, a handshake has a meaning transmitted in a clear, defined way, with its own. Hand to eye gestures, in which one person sees and interprets the offer of a hand by another person, can be articulated and decoded in much the same way as mouth- to-ear utterances. Fraternal organizations have often devised in-group handshakes, some of which are secret. Some whites use the black power handshake in their more intimate circles as a symbol of group cohesiveness.