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By Matthew Desmond
Racial Domination, Racial growth: The Sociology of Race in America seems to be at race in a transparent and available means, permitting scholars to appreciate how racial domination and growth paintings in all elements of society. analyzing how race isn't really a question of separate entities yet of platforms of social family members, this article unpacks how race works within the political, monetary, residential, criminal, academic, aesthetic, associational, and intimate fields of social lifestyles. Racial Domination, Racial Progress is a piece of uncompromising intersectionality, which refuses to artificially separate race and ethnicity from category and gender, whereas, while, by no means wasting sight of race as its basic concentration. The authors search to hook up with their readers in a fashion that mixes disciplined reasoning with a feeling of engagement and fervour, conveying refined rules in a transparent and compelling style.
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62 Thus, racism is not only located in our intentional thoughts and actions; it also thrives in our dispositions and habits, as well as in the social institutions in which we are all embedded. indd Page 28 8/6/09 1:29:22 PM /Volumes/ju105/SRA00023/SRA00023_indd%0/SRA00023_GK/a_com epg 28 CHAPTER 1 2. Legalistic Fallacy. This fallacy conflates de jure legal progress with de facto racial progress. ” Thus, one who operates under the legalistic fallacy assumes that abolishing racist laws (racism in principle) automatically leads to the abolition of racism writ large (racism in practice).
Here, racism is assumed to belong to the realm of ideas and prejudices. Racism is only the collection of nasty thoughts a “racist individual” has about another group. 60 Crucial to this misconceived notion of racism is intentionality. “Did I intentionally act racist? ” Upon answering “no” to the question of intentionality, one assumes they can classify their actions as “nonracist,” despite the character of those actions, and go about their business, as innocent. This conception of racism simply won’t do, for it fails to account for the racism woven into the very fabric of our schools, political institutions, labor markets, and neighborhoods.
51 Citizenship is accompanied by many social privileges, such as the right to vote when one is so inclined, the right to own property when one has the means, the right to legal protection when one is victimized, the right to receive medical treatment when one is sick, and the right to receive an education when one is young. Because they could not obtain citizenship, many nonwhites lacked access to these basic privileges. If a white woman was married to a nonwhite man, she could not obtain citizenship.