1. Latino Politics by Lisa Garcia Bedolla Latino Politics is a book grounded on Dr. Lisa Garcia Bedolla’s research of the experiences of the Latino population living in the United States‚ specifically using the Mexican‚ Puerto Rican‚ Cuban‚ Dominican‚ and Central American experiences as the core of her research. She explores the historical‚ social‚ economic‚ and political factors in conjunction with US foreign policy that have contributed to the mass migration of these Latino groups to the United
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Imagine yourself walking in the middle of the night‚ and suddenly‚ a person approaches you with a gun and threatens to rob you of all your possessions. Take a moment to focus on the robber’s physical appearance‚ what does the robber look like? Regardless of what the robber looks like‚ the physical characteristics of him or her have no actual significance. The purpose of this scenario is to show how visualizing and defining a criminal based on physical features is a form of active participation within
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recognition on how gender shapes and is shaped by other conditions‚ practices and relations of power and market and how they produce inequality. - Means how gender intersects with other social locations; age‚ income‚ culture‚ disability‚ and racialization What is gender sensitive research? (p. 333) - Emerged within and from the women’s movement – demonstrates the importance of gender (men & women) - Relations between men & women - Power relations (emphasizes on subordination
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The Manifestation Of The One-drop Rule To The 50 Percent Drop Rule: The politics of identity and the pursuit of ownership “Hawaiian Blood” written by J.Kehaulani Kauanui serves as an epic exemplification of how the racialization of a people serves as a vehicle toward sustaining systematical mechanisms of oppression. Henceforth Kauanui presents her readers with a stark look into the intricacies of federal policy in relation to ideological practices and constructions of culture‚ ethnicity and
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because they explain it in terms of people. They say that the external of a person is not the determining factor and people should not be judged based on that. Today‚ although in theory it is nice‚ people still judge based on color‚ race etc. 6. Racialization is “the formation of a new radical identity‚ in which
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truth is that we are constantly inundated with social messages that promote the status quo and the use of stereotypes. Omi and Winant describe how these cultural influences shape how people are placed into racial categories through the process of racialization. They describe that representations of race on U.S. television are like caricatures of racial groups‚ relying on oversimplification and familiarity‚ in order to maintain stereotypes and the status quo. These messages over time can shape viewers
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Genocide 6 million exterminated. That number rolls off of our tongues as we sit and learn history in the 6th grade‚ or we write a paper on WW1. How about 800‚000 murdered in 100 days‚ while Americans attempted to keep our troops of the conflict yet watched the bloody images daily on CNN. Genocide in our world is something that is impossible to justify or embrace‚ but we must attempt to understand it. It is only through this understanding will we be able to prevent or stop one of the most horrific
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increasingly‚ they served to introduce and deepen the split between gender conformity and sexuality; the latter came to be understood almost solely in terms of object(s) of desire‚ and thus to perpetuate standing conceptions of whiteness and racialization in the U.S. In the case of the women’s movement‚ radical cultural feminism‚ and gay liberation‚ issues of sexuality seemingly were treated and lived as distinct from those of gender such that resistance to particular hegemonic ideas about sexuality
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Paper for the AHRC Centre for Law‚ Gender‚ and Sexuality Intersectionality Workshop‚ 21/22 May 2005‚ Keele University‚ UK Structural Injustice and the Politics of Difference Iris Marion Young‚ University of Chicago‚ iyoung@uchicago.edu‚ April 2005 As a social movement tendency in the 1980’s‚ the politics of difference has involved the claims of feminist‚ anti-racist‚ and gay liberation activists that the structural inequalities of gender‚ race‚ and sexuality were not well perceived or combated
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--birth of "caucasian" and racial hierarchy [came up with the term caucasian] TEST QUESTION -1781 Jefferson suggests innate Black inferiority racial hierarchy -the stratification of subsequent inequality among physically distinct groups. racialization -the PROCESS by which those in dominant groups have defined and constructed certain other groups as racially inferior or superior for the purpose of social placement‚ dominant group enrichment‚ segregation or oppression. ideological racism
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