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Week 9 - What Is Racism Flashcards

1
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Race was built

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On the concept of race

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Race cannot be seperated

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From racism in the context of history

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What kind of racism is more common today?

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Subtle forms of racism, not explicit hatred

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4
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The term “racist” coined in

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1930 – A response to Nazism

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Bias:

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Preferring one thing over the other (“I like summer more than winter”) – A tendency and/or feeling that is not objective but not necessarily harmful (although it can be!)

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Prejudice:

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Preconceived notion or opinion – Typically negative, involves stereotypes (popular but inaccurate/oversimplified ideas) No power imbalance needed.

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Is racism hate?

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Yes, it can be (in cases of open and/or violent racism) but it does not have to be!

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Discrimination:

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Unfair treatment of (groups of) people based on prejudice.

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9
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What’s the most common form of racism?

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POWER + PREJUDICE

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10
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A person with no power can be _______, but not _______ against a person with power

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Prejudice

Racist

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11
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ANTHRO studies racism in

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The system and the benefits it brings to some groups and consequences it brings to others, NOT in the individual

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12
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Racism being part of a system means what?

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It means that a person that is not racism can still benifit without holding any racist beleifs

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Racism is not a

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Moral judgment or character flaw (im not racist, im a good person)

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Does being part of a racist system make a person racist?

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No

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15
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Can only white people be racists?

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Depending on how you define “racism”

  • by this definition, and if we are looking in the context of the west, than yes
  • other countries and areas in the world, than NO
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Problem with saying only white ppl can be racist is that

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It goes back to the individual, not to the system, so instead we say racism favours some groups over others, and benefits some ppl at the expense of other groups

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Reverse racism exists?

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On the individual level - YES, u can have anything

On the system - NO and it cannot exist

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18
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Old racism

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Focus on biological differences

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19
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New racism

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Focus on cultural differences

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What does new racism use?

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Euphemisms for race - ethnicity, cultural differences , religion, geography,

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Defining characteristic of new racism

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Euphemisms used for race

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22
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Critical race theory

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Examines race and racism in terms of power relations in society

  • started in 1980s
  • concerned with laws and legal history
  • idealists VS realists
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Idealists

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Racism is about attitudes, social teachings, ideas and ways of thinking

24
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Realists

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Racism is about the way society allocates privilege and status

25
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Idealist solutions

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Concerned with changing attitudes, behaviours and words

  • racist speech, media representations etc.
  • want to change peoples opinions
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Realists solutions

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Concerned with changing physical realities of minorities lives.

  • work conditions, immigration, laws, convictions
  • idealists solutions are not enough
  • need to change system and structure of society
27
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Revisionist history

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reexamines us history, replacing comforting majoritarian interpretations of events with one’s that square more accurately with minorities experiences.

28
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What is a criticism of colour blindness and ideas of neutrality

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Liberalism

29
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Critical race theorists criticize what?

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Liberalism bc it leads to colour blindness and ideas of neutrality, regardless of historical context

30
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Materialists:

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demonize their subjects to make themselves feels better about exploiting them, and to form collective attitudes that justify what they did.

31
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Polarized stereotypes

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Three bears effect

32
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Three bears effect

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Too hot, too cold, just right.

Pitting ppl of color against each other, and making white ppl “just right”. A way to divide and conquer.
- logical fallacies used about race

33
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Polarizing stereotypes are used to

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Normalize whiteness, making white the default and neutral standards, and POC as different

34
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Positive stereotypes are rooted in

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racism, as it fuels racism and increases polarization bw minorities
- ideal minority stereotypes used on Asian Americans to pit them against black people

35
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Peggy McIntosh (1988)

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White privilege

36
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Privilege –

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Benefits that favor one specific group. Often invisible to those
who benefit from it but obvious to those who lack these benefits. Privilege – often amounts to “normal life” for those who benefit from it; opportunities. Both obvious and passive advantages.

37
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White privilege is white kind of benifit and for who

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It’s institutional benefits for white ppl

  • employment, education, law
  • individual worth (as seen as neutral or unlabelled)
38
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Audrey Kobayashi and Linda Peake:

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“Whiteness is a set of cultural practices and politics based upon ideological norms that are lived but unacknowledged.”

39
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Why do white ppl not wanna hear they are white

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They dont wanna think about race or racism bc they see themselves as neutral or default
- except if its to prove to others they aren’t racism

40
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White mans burden

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White ppl thinking they have the obligation to civilize non-white ppl and manage/govern them bc they are seen as less than.

41
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Cultural appropriation

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Dominant group selectively adopting (borrowing) and de-contextualizing elements of a minorities culture for their own personal interest/use

  • ignores the meaning and cultural context of that element
  • ex: wearing cultural clothing as halloween costume
42
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Cultural appreciation

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Seeking to understand and learn about another culture with the intention to broaden ur perspective and connect with other cultures
- wearing cultural clothing at culturally approiate event/context

43
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There are different ways of surviving racism for

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Different minorities, etching with different rxns and survival strategies

44
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What’s a way to deal with racism

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White passing

  • playing a role
  • racelesness

Or
- opening resisting and standing against the dominant culture
(white ppl)

45
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Internalized racism is a _____ response + definition

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Pragmatic response

Defintion: the same “old” racism and its source is the system of oppression and white supremacy

46
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What is internalized racism a product of?

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Internalization of the The white gaze —> perspective through white standards and norms (beauty standards, behavior, attitudes)

47
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Colourism

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Discrimination and prejudice against individuals for their skin tones (darker), often in the same group

48
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Did colourism exist pre-colonization or in places with no colonization

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NO. Racist hierarchy (colourism is a direct consequence of colonization)

49
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Is POC on POC racism a thing?

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YES, can display prejudice and have ingrained racist attitudes

50
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Why is POC on POC racism a thing?

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Bc of the disliking to those that are perceived to be lower on the hierarchy (EX: Italians in canada)

51
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The system of racist is

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ingrained in culture, ppl are raised within this system and unavoidably adopt its values

52
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Colourism is a form of

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Internalized racism

53
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“Racelesness”

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coping strategy that involves the suppression of racial identity in order to achieve success

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