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“New Racism”

+Basic Premises

Race may be real, but it is also a social construction

White is the dominant racial group

Whiteness is the symbol of racial power – it is the “visible uniform” of the dominant group

Whether white people are aware of their race or not, they receive systemic privilege (subtly or obviously) because they wear the uniform of privilege

+From Post Secret

Louis CK

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+White Privilege

+Louis CK on Being White

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4f9zR5yzY

PROFANITY WARNING

+Structure of the Article

PART 1A: Explanation of the social structure that is “New Racism”

PART 1B: Description of the ideology that supports “new racism”

PART 2: Prediction that the meaning of “whiteness” will undergo a transformation

PART 3: Political implications of “new racism” and how to combat it

+Racism changes just like any social system changes over time.

Why the shift from Jim Crow?

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+ “New Racism”The kinder, gentler white supremacy

Characteristics:

1. Increasingly covert nature of racial discourse and practices

2. Avoidance of racial terminology & stories of “reverse racism”

3. Invisibility of the mechanisms that reproduce racial inequality

4. Incorporation of “safe minorities” to show nonracialism

5. Rearticulation of some racial practices from Jim Crow

+Examples from the article?

Poor service

Special requirements applied only to them

Surveillance in stores

Being ignored in retail stores selling expensive merchandise

Receiving the worst accommodations in hotels & restaurants

Constantly being confused for menial workers

Less commonly, overtly racist behavior, racial epithets

What Would You Do? Reaction of bystanders based on degree of “whiteness”

+Shopping While Black ABC’s What Would You Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH60U_rb6M4

+The ideology of “new racism” Abstract liberalism

“I am all for equal opportunity, that’s why I oppose affirmative action.”

Ignores the effects of past and current racism (decontextualizes) Protects white privilege

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+Color-Blind Racism: the ideology of “new racism”

Abstract liberalism “I am all for equal opportunity, that’s why I oppose affirmative

action.” Ignores the effects of past and current racism (decontextualizes) Protects white privilege

Naturalization Whites go to school, live with, befriend, and date other whites Whites can say “It’s a natural thing” and that all groups do it Hence it’s just “the way it is” and “beyond race”

Cultural racism

Minimization of racism

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+http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iYeW3FLzKM

http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.html

+Transformation of “whiteness”

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+Triracial System of U.S.

“Whites

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• Whites; New whites (Russians, Albanians, etc…); Assimilated light-skinned Latinos; Some multiracials; Assimilated (urban) Native Americans; A few Asian-origin people

“Honorary Whites”

• Light-skinned Latinos; Japanese Americans; Korean Americans; Asian Indians; Chinese Americans; Middle Eastern Americans; Most multiracials

“Collective

Black”

• Filipinos; Vietnamese; Hmong; Laotians; Dark-skinned Latinos; Blacks; New West Indian and African immigrants; Reservation-bound Native Americans

+How to Fight Whiteness and White Supremacy

Members of “collective

black” unite; Politicize the

“honorary white” and make them

aware

New civil rights

movement

Make racism visible