Aaron Samuels
Broader and sometimes more subtle than individual discrimination, this kind of discrimination results from society operating in ways that allow certain groups to receive better treatment and opportunities than other groups.
Fairly stable social arrangements and practices through which collective actions are taken. Such as the U.S. include the legal, educational, health care, social service, government, media and criminal justice systems.
-Assume racism is ever-present
-Observe how racism is denied, minimized and/or justified
-Learn the evolution of white supremacy
-Understand how race intersects with other social structures
-Distinguish phenotype and deeds
-Activism: organize, educate, and agitate
These are _____ strategies.
Attitudes, beliefs, feelings, and assumptions about a target group that are widespread AND socially sanctioned. They support the maintenance of institutionalized oppression by seemingly validating misinformation or beliefs.
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"polished my father until the neighborhood
could see its reflection in his black shining skin"
This category has been normalized and is used as the standard of conduct. As a culture, it perpetuates the idea that minorities deserve to be minorities because of their race. The law is the main tool of investing in and ensuring resources to this category and systematically limits various racial groups from accessing the resources at an equal rate.
Judging all other cultures and societies according to the standards of the society or culture that one belongs to. The belief that one’s culture is superior and that other ethnic groups or nations are inferior.
This system commodifies workers to sell in the labor market while the profits of one’s labor are taken by someone else. This system is kept via racial hierarchy.
A social construct and socially divisive force, this concept is understood as a group of people defined by physical characteristics such as skin color that differentiate members from other groups on that basis.
This country is not at war, this country *is* war. For the system of white supremacy to stay in place, this country must always be war.