Mel

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Pg. 433: "White racial identity is transcended when the status threat of identifying with nonwhiteness is diminished or non-existent." Aka when it is most convenient and beneficial. This wouldn't be possible without privilege. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

This concept of "optional" ethnic identity on pg. 431 is interesting. I wonder if it works in a similar way to code switching? #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Americans' lack of a vocabulary for articulating inequality in anything other than race based terms is the backdrop for white racial identity as percieved stigma. Pg. 425 #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

@MadisonSoc221 It also disproportionately affected the areas most hard hit and most in need of support. It's a vicious cycle and compounding of problems. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Is It just me or does reading the ways of being white chapter feel like reading the same things we've read before only in reverse? Its like a twilight zone episode. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

@MadisonSoc221 I see this all the time in ads and the media and it irks me every time. #NQSoc221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

@MadisonSoc221 This is just disgusting to me. Just one of the many reasons i gate watching the news. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

@MadisonSoc221 This is why media representation is so important. For many whites this is the majority of the contact they have with those of other races. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Pg. 415: white identity experienced in at least one of three ways: a privilege to defend, a percieved stigma, or an identity to be transcended." Interesting concept. I like that it acknowledges that not only one experience is applicable all the time. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

@Jasmine83200507 All about the money not about the stories or consequences. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Pg. 251 local news programs are doing race by systematically over emphasizing the issue of violent crime and associating crime with the actions of racial minorities. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

@Kaitigrand_ This influences race relations in many contexts and created biases some unconscious between and among races. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Pg. 223 DA for LA said it was the "more acculturated" children of most of whom were US citizens who were the biggest threat. So the criteria for acceptance is assimilation but those that are most assimilated are the biggest threat? #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Pierton W. Dooner's "The Last Days of the Republic" a perfect example of the power of words and the power of fear. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Pg. 219 just as the media portrays two opposite sterotyoes of Asian people today in the 1870's there were two opposing thoughts: racially inferior and would weaken the moral or social fabric of the country or threats to white hegemony. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Pg. 218 "race-generally defined as a large human group that shared fundamental features of mental abilities, personality, and character." I wonder how many people think of these elements when they think about what race means or entails. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Pg. 218: scientific racism-systematization of ideas about race. Ties in with Darwin's idea of survival of the fittest. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

Pg. 218 the idea of race in the US has come to imply the global, as it suggests not the oneness of the "human race" but the division of humanity into "races" with innate and indelible qualities that transcend actual social and cultural experience. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

@BriMorgan1997 It's important to note that the criteria for acceptance is how well someone can assimilate. #NQSOC221

[Mel @Mel_soc221]

@JordanS221 Just look at how Asian people are portrayed in the media. #NQSOC221