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Efird: Whiteness hurts society - Coggle Diagram
Efird: Whiteness hurts society
whiteness
a radicalized social system and a set of beliefs that uphold white american social supremacy and the oppression of populations of color
documenting the neg. effects of whiteness encourages divestment from the construction of relaity that inequitably produces power and privelige--> threatens society
understanding how whiteness operates will aid in dev. of interventions and policies that reduce inequity from whiteness & nature of racism
CRT: racism is a systemic, enduring forces thats embedded in every facet of society
structures the opportunities and privileges that shape health and wellbeing across racial groups
investigating whitness within psych research will helpilluminate how to disrupt its damaging effects
doing intersectionality and research positionality
lacks of research/methods that account for intersectionality-- creates limitations
Engaging in conversations of social identities and proximity to power and privilege can be benficial as reserachers
diversity is crucial in research for capturing various identities to conceptualize racism
whiteness as a system
visibly embedded within instituitions, policies, culture, and everyday life, like in the US.
does not exist in a vacuum—not separated
racial capitalism: tendency of european civilization not to homogenize but differentiate for purpose of exploitation, expropriation, and establishment of racial hierarchies
capitalism requires inequality and racism ensures it--- importance of dismantling systems and knowing the historic context
established to exploit and suppress POC, racially, economically, implicitly and explicitly
property righat- acces to land and housing: contributing to largest welth gap in US history
categorization of white has shifted
central tenents of whiteness
whitenss is a modern invention that varies by time and place
socially constructed norm liked to indices of implicts and explict priveliges and adanvatiages
constitues a system that sustains and produces proofs and advantages over time for white-identified individuals or groups