SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Test 2: Solipsism, Color Blindness, White Supremacy
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Main concepts for test #2: whiteness as it relates to: Foucault: nothing is more material, physical, comport than the exercise of power . Power does not work in one direction from top down as from leaders to subjects. Power should not be regarded as negative as in power over something. Power is productive, constructing new capacities and modes of activity. Power is not an abstract force, but a practice: it proceeds in and through social groups and individuals. The kind of pleasure it produces involves personal identity, personal capacities, and a desire for change. Power exercised through whiteness accomplishes its relative superiority . We should learn what whiteness does rather simply acknowledging it negative effects on non-white groups: race: A socially constructed classification of persons on the basis of real or imagined physical characteristics. Race is not a natural occurrence, but a consequence of power relations.