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Assignment:
Listen to "Race and (Color) Blindness", by Osagie Obasogie." and discuss your thoughts on how the podcast relates to 4 of these 7 main points.
1. Explain why one should avoid the individualistic fallacy, the legalistic fallacy, the tokenistic fallacy, the ahistorical fallacy, and the fixed fallacy, when thinking about racism.
2. Distinguish between institutional racism and interpersonal racism and understand how these types of racism often interpenetrate and inform one another.
3. ?Understand how racism intersects with other forms of social division - those based on gender, class, sexuality, religion, nationhood, and ability.
4. Understand what is meant by symbolic violence and explain its significance for the perpetuation of racial inequality.
5. Learn why race is a symbolic category and understand why there is no biological foundation for race.
6. Understand how whiteness is racial domination normalized, which produces and reproduces many privileges for white people.
7. Recognize how race and ethnicity are overlapping symbolic categories and explain why they cannot be collapsed into one category.