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Racism
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Ideas and practices that oppress particular groups because they are members of those groups
People don’t feel as free to hurl racism as they once did in the 1940s and 1950s |
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Robert Merton's Typology of Racism
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Prejudice
Type 1: “All-Weather liberal” •Does not discriminate, not prejudiced Type 2: “Fair weather liberal” •Does discriminate, is not prejudiced Type 3: “Timid Bigot” •Does not discriminate but is prejudiced Type 4: “All-weather bigot” •Discriminates and is prejudiced KKK |
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Racial Animus
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The intent to cause harm
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5 Fallacies of Racism:
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Individualistic Fallacy
-The idea that people have racism is purely on an individual level. Tokenistic Fallacy •Because there are black people that are upwardly mobile, it indicates that we are not racist. Legalistic Fallacy •We are a post-racial society, because we don’t say certain words, we are not racist Historical Fallacy •History doesn’t matter, what happens in the past doesn’t matter. But, history plays a role Fixed Fallacy •We aren’t racist now because we aren’t segregated. |
