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7: White Supremacy, Racisms, and Racial Formation

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    143319
    • Teresa Hodges
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    By Dr. Teresa Hodges

    Learning 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.

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