ANTA02H3 Chapter 5: Ch. 5 Notes
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Family,, school and peer groups are important for construction and enforcement of social marginalization. Misogyny of women is enforced through gang rape. Cultural and generation gap destabilizes power relation between parents and children. Mom as authority figure becomes illiterate sweat shop worker to children, when parents interact with teacher. Doing well in school is betraying his mom"s love in a way, by siding with teacher. Teachers subconsciously enforce hierarchy of white domination: made primo seem like he was stupid, and had discipline problem. He was judged with class and social inequality. School is where cultural capital and symbolic violence conflicts with children. Most enforcement of social power is unconscious. Primo was stuck between two cultures because puerto rico is aware of inner city trouble in ny and they distrust puerto ricans that are from there. Caesar"s mom came from more urban part of puerto rico and was more literate and acculturated: lead to more violence.
