SOC323H5 Chapter Notes -Internalized Oppression, Cockstock Incident, Visible Minority
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Two levels: application of seemingly neutral practices (that have an adverse effect on women of colour, and through internalized dominance . Neutral measures: lsats (biased questions directed to a particular race, social status in world experience), recruiting and hiring practices might also be discriminatory. The way in which dominant members of society participate and contribute to the oppression of others. Positive messages about white mainstream and negative about people of colour and other members of society (age, sexual orientation, physical disability etc. ) The white mainstream experience is seen as normal" the failure to notice the exclusiveness is part of the privilege of being white . Id gives members of the dominant group the experience of the powerfulness and members of the oppressed group the experience of powerlessness. Id is also seen in terminology such as visible minority these act as ways to ingrain stereotypes around race and sex, the ideas need to be unlearned individually.