“All these words‚ describing racial subcategories‚ seem neutral on their face like equivalent titles. But however the subcategories are listed‚ however neutrally the words are expressed‚ these words mask a system of power‚ and that system privileges whiteness” The categories of the words race and gender are not the only way to describe how it defines what subcategories of words the white privileged uses to pacify minorities to make them feel as though they are equal to them‚ which in turn obscures
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Symbolic Interaction Theory --> 1) the way we act towards ppl is based on the meanings we have for them. 2) The meanings we have for these ppl come from our interactions we have with them meanings are shaped and reshaped on the interpretation of our interactions we have with them. Creating who we are: --> we develop our identity based on our interactions with others. In-groups --> we are concerned about their welfare. help discipline our behavior. You present your social
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Plessy vs Ferguson‚ and sought justice for segregation‚ bodily protections‚ and equal protections under the law. Race played a major role in women’s so called “freedom” in society‚ and in their protections by the legal system. In Elizabeth Hale’s Making Whiteness‚ Hale discusses how white supremacy was created as a social movement in response to an increase of black freedom. In her book‚ Hale demonstrates the difference in punishment for violating a black woman’s body versus a white woman’s. During the
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Definition of Whiteness Whiteness can be seen as an ideology of a white capitalistic supremacy‚ where the white race is seen as the norm to which all racial structures live by‚ and anything other than this is seen as the abject. Richard Dyer refers to the property of whiteness that is everything and nothing‚ as the source of its representational power. (Dyer 1988:44) Howart Winant sees racial identity as something that all people have‚ except for whites. White individuals are seen as people‚ whereas
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MIRROR MIRROR The idea of not looking in a mirror for three consecutive days seems quite obnoxious‚ not to mention a challenge‚ but then again the feeling was what kick started my experience for the same. At first I inverted my mirror to help me get started on my assignment but that was purely for the sake of the assignment and didn’t mean any more than that. But‚ a few hours into the experiment‚ I found myself making silly excuses to look at my reflection for reasons that I thought were valid
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According to the article‚ “What is Whiteness?” by the author and historian Nell Irvin Painter‚ she stated that “…new waves of poor Eastern and Southern European immigrants arrived [to the United States]‚ inspiring new racial classifications: the “Northern Italian” race‚ the “Southern Italian” race‚ the “Eastern European Hebrew” race‚ and so on… But‚ like the Irish before them‚ the Italians and Jews and Greeks were classified as inferior white races.” Then‚ almost a century after‚ “By the 1940s anthropologists
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difficult to summarize given the history of how United States treatment towards minority groups that Islamophobia has it’s rooted in the policing of whiteness. Specifically‚ in regards to whiteness‚ it should be mentioned quoting from Neil Irvin Painter article in the Sunday Review of the NY Times‚ "What is Whiteness" that Constructions of whiteness have changed over time‚ shifting to accommodate the demands of social change. Before the mid-19th century‚ the existence of more than one white race
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myself in the long mirror behind it. I was convinced that within the mirror there was another world‚ another dimension in which another me lived. Mirror Me was perfect in my eyes for even then I knew the real me wasn’t. I found solace in knowing that somewhere there was version of myself that was perfect and I suppose this is where my deep fascination with my reflection was born. But things are so different now. Gone are the days when I could converse with my reflection in the mirror‚ to do that now
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Mirror‚ Mirror “Mirror‚ Mirror on the wall‚ who is the fairest of us all”. We all know the famous quote from the Fairy tale‚ but do we know that the answer should be “ME”. Although that might sound conceited‚ the fact is that every person should have the ability of looking in the mirror and saying‚ “that’s me and I love me!” Mark Twain once said “The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.” Loving yourself is not an easy thing to do but it is worth the effort. Loving yourself
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In an article‚ White Privilege and Male Privilege‚ Peggy McIntosh writes “I did not have to educate our children to be aware of systematic racism for their own daily physical protection.” (McIntosh‚ 1989‚ p. 89) This issue has come up again in the main news outlets with protesters and
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