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Week 5 Mind Map - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Whiteness as valued property/identity/status is taken as the baseline, erroneously positing anything else in opposition to it
    - - Displays the ways our society forces those subjugated to further oppress or ignore their identities to survive a world not made with them in mind
  - - - American law has continued to adapt throughout history to continue to reproduce subjugation on this basis
        
        Jim Crow
        
        Indentured servitude
        
        Prison industrial complex
  - - - After slavery and conquest, white identity as racial privilege
        was reified through property law
        
        After legal segregation overturned, law made whiteness as property the natural baseline against all else to continue its subjugation
    - - Two forms of whiteness as property found in Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board
        
        Status property
        
        Modern property
- - - - Lack of opportunity across the life course
        
        Globalization, automation, income inequality --> wage stagnation and loss, rising unemployment and poverty, vanishing pensions
      - Neoliberal policies have impacted SS protections
        
        Marketplace volatility and financial insecurity
      - Compositional changes in educational strata
        
        lack of high school education
      - Lack of self-respect and self-efficacy due to SES and lack of education
      - Social conditions act as fundamental causes of health disparities
        
        Adverse early-life conditions are biologically embedded
        
        Chronic material deprivation
    - - While there may be some inherent racism in those who focus only on the lifespan plight of uneducated white folk, it is not inherently unjust or racist to acknowledge that this is an issue worthy of attention
        
        The causes behind this lifespan decline, clearly violate the criteria used to determine what is unjust
        
        Systemic poverty
        
        Influence of SES elite on political decisions of vulnerable undereducated population
    - - Difficult to do because of the complicated identity of lower-class white Americans
        
        Privileged whiteness
        
        Subjugated class and education
        
        Leads to this population identifying with their privileged race rather than their underprivileged SES, making class-consciousness difficult
    - - Significant morbidity associated with premature death can lower quality of life and impede plans and projects
      - Lack of self-respect
      - Tendency to conflate welfare with race, resulting in personal detriment