EL - Racism and Everyday Life

Question 1

Philomena Essed argument

Answer 1

Argues that racism is not just an inherent ideological practice but is actually continually reinforced by everyday, normalised actions which maintain it

Question 2

Christian Karner argument

Answer 2

Race is wrongly attributed to physical characteristics but since these are highly variable among perceived races it can therefore be said that race is socially constructed rather than biologically, and ascribed to certain people through racism

Question 3

Amanda Lewis study

Answer 3

Study of race in three public schools in California, interviews with staff, parents and students
Found that when students were asked about the ethnicity of their peers they often incorrectly ascribed particular races to them such as calling a Filipino boy Chinese