7: White Supremacy, Racisms, and Racial Formation

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• Teresa Hodges
• ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI)

By Dr. Teresa HodgesLearning Objectives

Analyze race as a social construct and the changing definitions of race;

Critically analyze systems of historical and current-day racial/ethnic oppression using social scientific and humanistic approaches, including ethno-centrism, eurocentrism, white supremacy, and settler-colonialism;

Explain the significance of power as a crucial variable in racial/ethnic conflict and as they relate to so-called minority-majority group relations;

Analyze the cultural and institutional factors involved in race and ethnic relations, relating the macro-level to the micro-level.

• 7.1: Introduction

• 7.2: Defining Whiteness and White Supremacy

• 7.3: Racism as Structural/Institutional

• 7.4: Structural/Institutional Legacies of Whiteness

• 7.5: Normalization of Whiteness

• 7.6: Summary/Review

• 7.7: References

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