SOSC 1350 Chapter Notes -Judith Butler, White Privilege, Heteronormativity
11 Jan 2013
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American political cartoon (1970: oppression, privilege and the social construction of race, oppression as multiple, overlapping and interlocking. Brooks, allen, dixon v. canada safeway (1989) ^ it was overturned, concerns with 3 women and denied of benefits due to maternity leave from canada safeway. Also suggest that multiple overlapping and interlocking of men of color. Have to integrated of all parts of who one is: privilege as invisible to those who have it. Do not see whiteness as a race. Do not see that they have gender identities. Both white people and of color, white is a category has to be produced and reproduced in order to give it meaning. It is problematic and assuming race is biology, and doesn"t allow thinking of how race is socially instructed. 19th century, scientific racism and emerged in britain, related to social darwism, established that the white race is socially evaluated.
