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Individualistic Fallacy
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Racism belongs to realm of ideas and prejudices- labeling someone racist treats racism as something aberrant/strange
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Legalistic Fallacy
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Abolishing racist laws abolishes racism- laws don't ensure no more offenses
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Eugenics
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Social agenda to breed best whites and avoid "contamination"- sterilization- systematic matings
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Race
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Not biologically realsymbolic categorysocial context: place-specifichistorical: time-specific
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Ethnicity vs Nationality*
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E: a shared lifestyle informed by cultural, hisotrical, religious, and/or national affiliationsN: membership in a specific politically delineated territory controlled by a dominant government (citizenship)
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Race vs Ethnicity*
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R: definition imposed by others and cannot be changedE: definition determined by members of the group and voluntarily accepted by them
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Tokenistic Fallacy
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Assumes that the presences of people of color in influential positions is evidence that racism no longer exists.
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Ahistorical Fallacy
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Assumes history is nonsequential
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Fixed Fallacy
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Assumes racism is fixed and constant across space and time- can't conclude racism has disappeared just because it doesn't resemble that of the 1950s
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Domination*
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Political, social and economic power, as the symbolic power to classify one group as "normal" and other groups as "abnormal" (polluted air): Institutional and Interpersonal
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Intersectionality*
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Racial domination intersects with gender, class, sexuality, religion, nationality; overlapping systems of advantages and disadvantages
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Institutional Racism
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Systemic white domination of people of color, embedded and operating in universities, corporations, legal systems, political bodies, and other social collectives
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Interpersonal racism
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Racial domination manifests in dispositions and practices
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Laisse-faire racism*
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Opposition to addressing any racial problems due to the belief in the self-regulating capacity of the market and the notion that everyone can make it with hard work- blames minorities for poorer economic standing, function of perceived cultural inferiority- assumes opportunity structure is open to all
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Color blind privilege
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Majority of white believe racism is thing of past and black have as good chance in procuring housing and employment or achieving middle class status
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