AAST 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Model Minority, Yellow Peril, Honorary Whites
2 Feb 2017
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Asians racially cast through narratives of empires, war, and migration. Yellow peril/enemy aliens, model minority myth, and inferiority. Race social construction where biology and culture are used to oppress others through a. Protests and movements are centered on social justice: asian-american politics critique capitalism and war. Race emerged from european enlightenment: intertwined with imperialism/colonization, capitalism, and social structure, white supremacy is founded on dispossession and violence on others. Inequality at the center of racism/white supremacy is based on the enduring power of race as a flexible and shifting category. Race concept notions of difference encompass ideas of religious superiority/social hierarchy: scientific racism. Basis of visible biological differences (skin, hair) Justified by divine right to belief in christian church. Racial formation sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed: racism/antiracist social movements are active social processes, race/racialization used to make culture seem naturalized, ex.
